Hello @Klauswk, it looks like this game would benefit from support for Media Foundation maturing. It may be interesting to try the game with Proton Experimental and share a log.
Thank you for the quick response @kisak-valve, indeed using the experimental version launch the game perfect.
@kisak-valve I tried to run it with the Proton Experimental. Here is the log.
steam-869880.log
It's sad that the movies are not playing, you can only see the placeholder. Hopefully the log will help :-)
I can confirm @Zlopez, the movies are not playing.
FWIW, The latest GloriousEggroll release (Proton-6.1-GE-2) runs the game fine, with movies. It does have a sound glitch at the end of each movie as it switches back to the game, but it's tolerable.
@georgedorn Do you know if this will be merged to upstream Proton?
@Zlopez The proton devs are free to use anything they want to from the project, but there's no one patch I can point to that explains why GE can display in-game video where Proton cannot. Nobody made a "fix Freakpocalypse" patch - the latest changeset in GE was from before Freakpocalypse was released.
My three guesses as to why it works in GE: something in a later version of wine fixed it, something about switching to faudio fixed it, or some patch to support video in some other game happened to accidentally also fix it.
I tried it today with Proton GE 6.1-GE-2 and I still have the placeholder image instead of intro movie.
The cutscenes are now working with Proton 5.13-6 after 1.08 update, which replaced the mp4 videos with webm.
proton 5.13-6x1 2021-03proton 6.1-ge-2x1 2021-03proton experimentalx2 2021-03
Compatibility Report
System Information
I confirm:
steam-869880.log
Symptoms
The game launches but keep forever on the loading screen.
Reproduction
Open the game, forever loading screen