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Dance of Death - Du Lac & Fey

protonopen appid 976920Game compatibility - UnofficialXAudio2
ValveSoftware/Proton#4120 · opened 2020-08-05 by timonoj · updated 2020-08-06 · 7 comments · github · game page · search this game
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Ttimonoj 2020-08-05 github

Hi!

I was hoping Proton would be able to play this game, and it seems to do a good attempt, but then it fails with a blank screen.
It does show the configuration launcher, and then at launch you can see properly the Unity logo in full screen. Then you can hear the introductory sound for the game menu screen...but it's just a blank screen. Nothing seems to work from here.

Is there anything that can be done to fix this?
I'm using KDE Neon v18.04 and Nvidia v440.100.
Any details I might be missing?

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2020-08-05 github

Hello @timonoj, please copy the compatibility report template to this issue report and fill it out.

Mmozo78 2020-08-05 github

The game is working fine You should <Removed by moderator> or use Proton-5.11-GE-3-MF.

Ttimonoj 2020-08-05 github

Thanks for the prompt replies! I can't get Steam to install that proton version. The latest it allows me is Proton-5.0.7. And I don't know how to add an external DLL, but it didn't complain of missing one, either.

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: Dance of Death - Du Lac & Fey
  • Steam AppID of the game: 976920

System Information

  • GPU: GT1070
  • Driver/LLVM version: Nvidia v440.100.
  • Kernel version: 5.4.0-42-lowlatency (tested also non-lowlatency 5.4.0-42), same result.
  • Link to full system information report as Gist:
  • Proton version: v5.0.9

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

Blank screen after Unity logo. Audio of the menu intro can be heard for a few seconds, then nothing. I just Alt-F4 out of the game.

steam-976920.log

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2020-08-05 github

Thanks, looks like this game will benefit from support for Media Foundation maturing.

Ttimonoj 2020-08-05 github

Thanks for your reply. However I'm not sure what do you mean. Is there an updated version of Media Foundation fixing this already? Or there are no known fixes at the moment?

Thanks!

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2020-08-05 github

There's ongoing work in upstream wine to improve the situation, but that subsystem was not in a usable state when wine 5.0 was released. As @mozo78 mentioned, there's a third party option to try if you feel like it while we wait to see how things look in the next major Proton release.

Ttimonoj 2020-08-06 github

Thanks for all the details. As you correctly mentioned, manually downloading Proton-5.11-GE-3-MF and copying it to ~/.steam/steam/compatibilitytools.d allows you to choose it as a custom Proton version. This indeed lets the game load correctly. However it leaks memory like crazy. After less than 5mins I was already over 12GB of RAM used!

Sadly at this stage it's still unusable...

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