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Flashback

protonopen appid 961620Game compatibility - Unofficial
ValveSoftware/Proton#3311 · opened 2019-12-11 by gfbett · updated 2020-12-28 · 3 comments · github · game page · search this game
Ggfbett 2019-12-11 github

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: Flashback
  • Steam AppID of the game: 961620

System Information

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

The game starts showing a configuration window, but after selecting start only a black screen is shown.

Reproduction

Just run the game

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2019-12-11 github

Looks like this game would benefit from support for Media Foundation maturing.

AAwesamLinux 2020-03-06 github

System Information

  • GPU: RX 5700 ITX
  • GPU Driver: Mesa 20.1.0-devel (git-69628ab 2020-03-03 bionic-oibaf-ppa)
  • Kernel version: 5.3.18-050318-lowlatency
  • Distro version: 19.3 Tricia (64 bit) (Cinnamon)
  • Proton version: 5.0-3

Compatibility Report

Game launches to a black screen, tried installing mf-plat (tried also the cab 32bit and 64bit variants) but it made no difference. I also tried limiting core/thread usage.

Another game for issue #1464
Log mentions mfplat.dll and codecs are:
MPEG-4, AVC + AAC

media_info.txt
steam-961620.log
system_info.txt

Tthaewrapt 2020-12-28 github

Playable with current Proton Experimental (video placeholders on start where the above-mentioned black screen issue had appeared, then everything is just smooth).

Proton versions

DLLs