Obduction

protonopen appid 306760Game compatibility - Unofficial

ValveSoftware/Proton#327 · opened 2018-08-23 by ghost · updated 2026-01-04 · 17 comments · github · game page · search this game

?ghost 2018-08-23 github

Obduction uses Windows Media Foundation to play in-game videos (example package needed for Windows N: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/mediafeaturepack). This is how the game is built. Videos are attached to buttons, other in-game moments.

Winetricks has old (32bit arch) wmp9, 10 and its possible to get wmp11 (for WinXP) installed, but any things else of Windows Media cannot be.

Also, unable to install .msu files (what Microsoft currently uses for their Windows Media installers) despite Wine supposedly being able to use .msu (bad exe error).

"Windows Media Foundation (WMF) handles standard audio/video playback and recording on the Windows Platform"
https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/Engine/MediaFramework/TechReference

23449.621:0032:0033:trace:module:load_builtin_dll Trying built-in L"mfplay.dll"
23449.621:0032:0033:warn:module:load_builtin_dll cannot open .so lib for builtin L"mfplay.dll": /home/user/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton 3.7 Beta/dist/lib/wine/mfplay.dll.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
23449.621:0032:0033:warn:module:load_dll Failed to load module L"mfplay.dll"; status=c0000135

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/medfound/using-mfplay-for-audio-video-playback

There are no workarounds here as to what I have found. As a result, Proton/Wine needs a fix here or Obduction needs a change.

So, this one I'm putting in the 'needs a fix but might never be or 10 years later' bin.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2018-08-26 github

Obduction [VR] (306760)

Issue transferred from https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/615.
@vpelletier posted on 2018-08-26T01:45:30:

Debian sid
Linux 4.17.17
CPU i7-6700
GPU GTX 1060@6GB
Nvidia 396.51
Proton 3.7-4
Vive pro

Main menu is not displayed in headset (only background - the asteroid field and planets in the distance). When removing headset, menu appears on screen and is functional, allowing to start a game.
Sound goes through speakers instead of headset (although this is more a general issue with VR on linux).
Sound in menu is choppy, but is fine once a game is started.
In-game menu does not appear in headset nor on screen.

Vvpelletier 2018-08-29 github

In addition to #615, transferred here: Steam - System Information

?ghost 2018-09-09 github

OP: Made some clarifications

AAhmed-E-86 2019-02-01 github

A possible fix for the game:
https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/issues/728#issuecomment-459839962

GGabMus 2019-02-13 github

@ahmed-elsayed2017 did you try this yourself? I just tried, but FMVs still don't work

AAhmed-E-86 2019-02-13 github

@ahmed-elsayed2017 did you try this yourself? I just tried, but FMVs still don't work

I didn't try it with this game. Some games needs other dlls from Windows and registery keys, look at this comment for more details: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/1102#issuecomment-419678627

AAhmed-E-86 2019-02-13 github

Or you can just delete the video files or change their size to 0B, and the game will skip it.

?ghost 2019-03-25 github

A possible fix for the game:
doitsujin/dxvk#728 (comment)

I'm impressed but tried it and just couldn't get anything to work here. I just don't think anything available at this time will work here and that it requires what wine cannot do.

Ggreyfade 2019-04-01 github

Or you can just delete the video files or change their size to 0B, and the game will skip it.

That's not really a solution for Obduction. These videos are critical for gameplay and story, as they include direction and hints for puzzles, which are otherwise unsolvable.

?ghost 2019-05-11 github

Wine added an mfplay.dll stub to 4.8. I don't think it will work here but it might be the closest thing its ever had toward this.

https://github.com/wine-mirror/wine/tree/master/dlls/mfplay
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47016
"47016 MS Office 365 installer needs mfplay.dll.MFPCreateMediaPlayer"

Technically, should be able to take that stub and implement for Obduction should it not work as-is as they have a foundation there for mfplay.dll. I probably won't but who knows who will :-)

_With the standard Proton log I don't see any specific function call for mfplay (just that it cannot find it ever). So it will be interesting to see if or how the log changes starting with Proton 4.8 - it should change if it finds mfplay.dll though (I don't see why it wouldn't). But the MFPCreateMediaPlayer() is definitely a function to play videos https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/medfound/getting-started-with-mfplay_

?ghost 2019-06-10 github

Another fix for Obduction with reference to video (looks like for intro vids) added to Wine 4.10 https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46723

(They have a couple or so other Obduction fixes in 4.10 as well.)

Ddebiangamer 2019-06-11 github

The game works somehow with wine-staging 4.10 and dxvk. Press ESC to start the game and skip the intro video. Holographic messages needs media player stuff so you can not progress in the game. You can run freely in the game world but nothing else.

NNeodamode 2019-06-11 github

Intro and in-game videos work fine with Wine 4.9/4.10 after:

Installing this(Link removed by moderator) Media Foundation workaround.
Copying colorcnv.dll from a Windows installation to the system32 folder of the wineprefix and registering it: wine64 regsvr32 colorcnv.dll.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2019-06-11 github

Hello @Neodamode, the link to the workaround you suggested is legally problematic and has been removed.

?ghost 2019-07-31 github

Interesting, so with 4.11-1 now nothing at all shows up in the default proton log when using a button in-game that causes video to play. Expected a fixme at the very least :-)P

BBarkBarklington 2026-01-04 github

has this issue been resolved yet?

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2026-01-04 github

Hello @BarkBarklington, I would expect that the game should have a set of transcoded videos available through Steam's shader pre-caching subsystem to use out of the box with the mainline releases of Proton.

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