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Darksiders II

protonopen appid 50650Game compatibility - Unofficial
ValveSoftware/Proton#3973 · opened 2020-06-12 by spannerman79 · updated 2022-05-11 · 1 comments · github · game page · search this game
Sspannerman79 2020-06-12 github

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: Darksiders II
  • Steam AppID of the game:50650

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.

steam-50650.log - Proton 5.0-9

steam-50650.log - Proton 4.11-13

Symptoms

Installs correctly, after initial developer splash screens show instant crash to desktop

Reproduction

  1. Download
  2. Run
  3. Wait for splash screens to finish showing (ie made with fmod, studio logo, etc)
  4. ... crash to desktop

As you can see from https://www.protondb.com/app/50650 this is an ongoing but yet unreported issue.

Edit: Uploaded log that was ran with a different version of Proton - uploaded & updated log with proton version info.

Sspannerman79 2022-05-11 github

While not forcing a set Proton version - steam-50650.log

Same hardware as my OP.

Only thing different since my OP;

Screen shows the Darksiders "loading" animation on the screen in a constant loop.

Not bottlenecked by disk I/O - installed onto NVMe

Proton versions