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Battlestations: Pacific

protonopen appid 8170Game compatibility - Unofficial
ValveSoftware/Proton#3081 · opened 2019-09-24 by HotelLima521 · updated 2023-10-07 · 3 comments · github · game page · search this game
HHotelLima521 2019-09-24 github

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: Battlestations: Pacific
  • Steam AppID of the game: 8170

System Information

  • GPU: GTX 970

  • Driver/LLVM version: GPU Driver: nvidia 435.21 LLVM version: 8.0.1
    steam-8170.log

  • Kernel version: 4.19.72-gentoo

  • Link to full system information report as Gist:

  • Proton version: 4.11-5

I confirm:

  • [*] that I haven't found an existing compatibility report for this game.
  • [*] that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available.

Symptoms

Requires to be set to WinXP on bsp.exe and battlestationspacific.exe

This gets us to the black screen. The black screen is due to Xbox's app not being installed, which can be found here: Xbox App

Issue was described on this thread.

Reproduction

  1. Starting the game without setting the compatibility will launch the game and immediately crash
  2. Setting the game's compatibility with winecfg to WinXP on bsp.exe and battlestationspacific.exe will bring us to the black screen
  3. Everything else is an issue with the game, or what the game's package is pushing. Potentially it is pushing a missing dependency for the Xbox
LLegendlink713 2020-01-20 github

You can get to the main menu and then the game will crash by placing xlive.dll and xlive.ini in your path to steam/steam/steamapps/common/Battlestations Pacific folder. I did that as described here<Link removed by moderator>. This was in proton 4.11-12 with no other tweaks. I don't know if that helps any.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2020-01-21 github

Hello @Legendlink713, grabbing a Microsoft library from a random third party is an unnecessary risk and legally problematic, which is why your link has been removed. In this case, winetricks'/protontricks' gfw verb is a safer workaround because the library is extracted from a redistributable installer downloaded directly from Microsoft.

NNeilBickle 2023-10-07 github

Has anyone solved this? I have tried with the newest proton builds but can only get to the start menu.

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