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Warhammer 40,000: Dakka Squadron - Flyboyz Edition

protonopen appid 1253190Game compatibility - UnofficialRegressionXAudio2
ValveSoftware/Proton#4883 · opened 2021-06-04 by dennis1248 · updated 2026-05-07 · 4 comments · github · game page · search this game
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Ddennis1248 2021-06-04 github

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: Warhammer 40,000: Dakka Squadron - Flyboyz Edition
  • Steam AppID of the game: 1253190

System Information

  • GPU: AMD RX 5700
  • Driver/LLVM version: Mesa 21.1.1/12.0
  • Kernel version: 5.12.7
  • Link to full system information report as Gist: Gist
  • Proton version: 6.3-4, Experimental

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-1253190-proton_6.3-4.log
steam-1253190-proton_experimental.log

Symptoms

Under the latest Proton stable (6.3-4) the game doesn't fully launch only showing it's launcher and an error message, the error message says the following; "DX11 feature level 10.0 is required to run the engine". After closing the error the game is killed.

Under Proton Experimental the game launches however it freezes after showing the introduction videos. Some (not all) introduction video's display as "TV test" images due to them requiring Microsoft Media Foundation.

Reproduction

  1. Launch the game
  2. Wait for above mentioned symptoms to appear
Kkisak-valve maintainer 2021-06-04 github

Hello @dennis1248, it might be interesting to test Proton Experimental with the game's launch options set to WINEDLLOVERRIDES="mfplay=d" %command% and see if that works around the video playback issue.

Ddennis1248 2021-06-04 github

Hi @kisak-valve,

With WINEDLLOVERRIDES="mfplay=d" %command% the videos which previous displayed as a "TV test" now display in a solid white. The game also no longer freezes after the introduction videos but it does not load in to the main menu, it now instead appears to get "stuck" on the last video.

Log: steam-1253190-proton_experimental+tweaks.log

Rranplayer 2025-06-10 github

I've found a regression for this game when using Proton 10 (beta-1f) and Experimental (2025-06-05): the intro video has no sound (working properly with 9.0-4)

Proton logs: steam-1253190.tar.gz

Main error: 2666.769:0148:0390:err:dmo:demuxer_create_streams Failed to find H264 bitstream filter

Specs:

  • OS: Arch
  • Kernel: 6.12.29
  • CPU: Ryzen 7 5700G (8c/16t)
  • GPU: RX 6700 XT (Mesa 25.0.5)
  • DE: Plasma 6.3.5
Rranplayer 2026-04-29 github

The intro video has heavy audio distortion when running this game with Proton 11.0 (beta-2) (no problems with Proton 10.0-4)

Proton logs: steam-1253190.tar.gz

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