Small Radios Big Televisions - Black screen with sound on startup

protonopen appid 390040Game compatibility - UnofficialXAudio2

ValveSoftware/Proton#3144 · opened 2019-10-12 by globeone · updated 2021-08-21 · 1 comments · github · game page · search this game

Gglobeone 2019-10-12 github

Compatibility Report

Name of the game with compatibility issues: Small Radios Big Televisions
Steam AppID of the game: 390040

System Information

GPU: GTX 980ti
Driver/LLVM version: nvidia 390
Kernel version: 4.15.0-65-generic
Link to full system information report as Gist:
Proton version: 4.2.9
steam-390040.log

I confirm:

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

Symptoms

When the game starts the screen is black, the sound starts and the cursor changes shape when you roll it across the screen but there are no graphics shown at all.

Reproduction

Start the game
Schermafdruk van 2019-10-12 16-22-52
steam-390040.log

Workaround iCCP didn't work

In the first time I ran the LOG file it came back with the following warning
iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
with:
pngcrush -n -q $( find . -type f -name "*.png" )
I could see that the png files in the game did have incorrect sRGB profiles
I fixed the files using the following from the directory
/Steam/steamapps/common/Small Radios Big Televisions/res/textures

mogrify $( find . -type f -name "*.png" )

Uunit73e 2021-08-21 github

I managed to get it working with a simple fix.

Create a dxvk.conf file in the directory the game is installed. Usually $HOME/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Small Radios Big Televisions/dxvk.conf

Add the following lines:

dxgi.deferSurfaceCreation = True
d3d9.deferSurfaceCreation = True

The explanation of what this does is here and many other options: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/doitsujin/dxvk/master/dxvk.conf

EDIT: also I used Proton 6.3-6 and 6.15-GE-2 and both work

Proton versions

proton 6.3-6x1 2021-08