Looks like this game would benefit from support for Media Foundation maturing.
@kisak-valve No it wont. It will only play sound but not show the videos in the sound. I tried this on the game when it was in demo mode and also after when it was released. Without MF it will just crash.
I wonder why this entry is uncommented in the latest three years? I've been having an over-reported problem in protondb that's the wormhole animation in-game hanging the whole game most of the time, and that animation occurs after every loaded game and area change. For me this happens in about 80% of the cases the animation shows up on the Steam Deck and in my desktop PC with very different graphical configurations. And with any proton version I try to use.
Sounds like the crash is when loading. I should say that I do not have this game. However I had crashing issues when loading in hogwarts legacy. The fix was to check the OS max_map_cap value.
cat /proc/sys/vm/max_map_count
If value is 65530 or similar change it to somethings higher, like 1000000. I can't remember the value I changed it to but my loading crashes stopped completely on hogwarts legacy after that.
The issue is usually with loading assets. Running out of memory for the new assets.
Give it a try.
it has been like that for years now (since May 9, 2021):
[17:34] [6165] [patola@risadinha patola]% sudo sysctl -a | grep max_map
vm.max_map_count = 16777216
[17:34] [6168] [patola@risadinha patola]% cat /etc/sysctl.d/patola.conf
kernel.dmesg_restrict=0
# Star Citizen:
vm.max_map_count=16777216
Nothing extracted yet.
Compatibility Report
System Information
I confirm:
Symptoms
This game crashes almost instantly with message "fatal error". This is because the intro videos. If you rename
ChernobylGame/Content/Moviesto something else it will load the main menu, however it would be cool to be able to see the intro. Attached Proton log is relevant to only this issue.The next problem is after starting "new game" the screen will remain black but music will keep playing for a while, I don't think it's supposed to be like that. Anyways, after that nothing happens. Only the "free-play" mode is playable.
Reproduction
Just open the game.
steam-1016800.log