protonscr

Sound issues with Skyrim and Skyrim SE (Possible Solution)

protonclosed
ValveSoftware/Proton#3974 · opened 2020-06-12 by Xeroderma · updated 2020-06-12 · 1 comments · github
XXeroderma 2020-06-12 github

Game

  • Name of the game: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Special Edition)
  • Steam AppID of the game: 72850, 489830

System Information

  • GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080ti
  • Driver/LLVM version: nvidia 418.113
  • Kernel version: 4.19.0-9-amd64
  • Proton version: 5.0

Symptoms

Sound stops playing after some minutes of play.
This is a known Engine-Bug of both Skyrim versions. To fix this the game needs to be installed on drive C.
Proton seems to use the Z-drive to load the game, what may lead to this issue.
Reports of players having this issue in windows can be found all across the internet.

Possible solution

Instead of using the Z-drive to access the game files, a symbolic link could be made pointing into the prefix, so the game could be launched from the c-drive.
The registry would need to be changed accordingly.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2020-06-12 github

Hello @Xeroderma, we're using one issue report per unofficially supported game title, so I've gone ahead and transferred this issue report to https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/460#issuecomment-643259751.

Upstream links