Whitelist Request

I noticed that this game has various color depth and brightness issues depending on the version of Proton used.

The most obviously broken graphics occur with Proton 6.3-8 which, as with several other games such as Max Payne (#623), results in some serious color banding.

With Proton 5.13-6, the game appears to have the proper color depth but is rather dark and muted.

I didn't try all of the older versions, but if I remember correctly, Proton 5.0-10 and 4.11-13 are the same way.

With Proton 7.0-6, the game is still pretty dark, but not quite as much.

(Note that the selected "new game" button in the center glows in a pulsating kind of way, so don't much pay attention to the brightness of that part.)

With Proton 8.0-5 and 9.0-1, the game appears much brighter.

(The screenshot above is with Proton 8.0-5. There's no significant difference with Proton 9.0-1, as far as I can tell.)

I don't know which brightness is "correct". I looked at some videos of the game on YouTube, none of which were stated to be running on Linux, and some looked dark and muted while others looked brighter. So I did a quick search of the Steam forums and saw several discussions about the game having brightness/color issues. Some of these threads are related to the Wine-wrapped "Linux version" but others are, with no mention of Linux, presumably not. Maybe the way the game handles gamma/brightness is just weird.

By the way, running the "Linux version" (which currently uses Wine 6.9 Staging) results in about the same brightness as older Proton versions:

But personally I wouldn't take that as an indication that this is the correct level of brightness.

A reply to one Steam forum thread mentions that the game's brightness issues occur only in fullscreen mode. Sure enough, running the game in windowed mode with Proton 5.13-6 results in a level of brightness which is closer to what I get with Proton 8.0-5 and Proton 9.0-1 in fullscreen mode.