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Valkyria Chronicles

protonopen appid 294860Game compatibility - Unofficial
ValveSoftware/Proton#491 · opened 2018-08-25 by tpedaste · updated 2025-10-28 · 9 comments · github · game page · search this game
Ttpedaste 2018-08-25 github

The gameplay work just fine but when a chapter finishes there is a delay of several minutes while the screen is frozen.

During this period I have have notices some shooting sound effects, the shooting sound effects aren't heard during gameplay.

?ghost 2018-08-25 github

You need to disable esync in Properties > Set Launch Options PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 %command%

Dd10sfan 2018-08-25 github

Running NO_ESYNC fixed the audio issues for me. Beautiful, thanks!

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2018-08-27 github

Valkyria Chronicles audio distortion (294860)

Issue transferred from https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/792.
@Toasty27 posted on 2018-08-27T23:48:13:

When playing VC, I get audio distortion (as if audio frames are being dropped).

I'm running this in a VM (Ubuntu 18.04.1) on QEMU-KVM (v1.5.3 on Centos 7.5.1804) with VGA pass-through (GTX 960, driver 396.54), but I'm using the GPU's HDMI output for audio, so the game isn't (to my knowledge) using the virtual ICH9 audio chipset. I've tried other games installed natively without Proton (e.g. Rocket League) in this VM without any audio issues.

I don't have any officially whitelisted games to try, so I can't confirm if this is more of a general problem related to my setup, or if it's specific to VC.

?ghost 2018-09-29 github

@kisak-valve

I was having no audio for sound effects like gunfire or footsteps, but the music and cutscenes were playing fine.

Setting PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 fixed it. I believe this game would work without issue now.

The audio worked in normal wine, however my PS4 controller does not. My PS4 controller however works perfectly in Steam Play/Proton, so I am very happy. I am extremely appreciative of this effort to support Wine and Linux gaming.

Somewhat unrelated, but there is a very large amount of Windows 10 users reporting possibly the same bug on the Steam discussion forums, which causes no SFX audio. This makes the game basically unplayable for those effected. I have compiled a list of links with people reporting this bug:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/294860/discussions/0/1621724915768575268/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/294860/discussions/0/1693785035819617629/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/294860/discussions/0/2949168687311530445/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/294860/discussions/0/1697169163408557168/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/294860/discussions/0/1729828401702635940/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/294860/discussions/0/1696043806555532510/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/294860/discussions/0/1693785035825102803/

CCxpher 2018-12-11 github

These are what i've noticed..

With Proton 3.16.4

  1. Music works with distortion
  2. SFX does not work at all
  3. Exit to Desktop from the game menu does not kill the process (have to kill manually)
  4. Alt+F4 does not kill the process (have to kill manually)

With Proton 3.16-5 Beta - (WITHOUT PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1)

  1. Music works with distortion
  2. SFX does not work at all
  3. Exit to Desktop from the game menu exits cleanly (Takes longer though)
  4. Alt+F4 does not kill the process (have to kill manually)

With Proton 3.16-5 Beta - (WITH PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1)

  1. Music works with distortion
  2. SFX works but suffering from the same distortion as the music
  3. There seems to be some form of SFX lag. Very slight but noticeable. Is the game itself usually like that?
  4. Exit to Desktop from the game menu exits cleanly
  5. Alt+F4 does not kill the process (have to kill manually)

So without esync, it's clearly improving with the latest FAudio implementation.

CCxpher 2018-12-12 github

Hi all,

I've done further testing.

The audio works wine with 3.16-5 Beta with PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 on speaker.

The cackling only occurs via bluetooth audio. Same for input lag.

Other games work fine however via bluetooth so i suppose this is an issue with this game only.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2025-10-28 · hidden on GitHub github

Valkyria Chronicles (294860)

Issue transferred from https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/9155.
@Gideon9212 posted on 2025-10-28T06:37:57:

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: Valkyria Chronicles
  • Steam AppID of the game: 294860
System Information 
"Arch Linux" (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 6.17.5-arch1-1
X Server Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server Release: 12401008
X Window Manager: KWin
Steam Runtime Version: steam-runtime_1.0.20250723.149234
Client Information:
Version: 1759461205
Browser GPU Acceleration Status: Enabled
Browser Canvas: Enabled
Browser Canvas out-of-process rasterization: Enabled
Browser Direct Rendering Display Compositor: Disabled
Browser Compositing: Enabled
Browser Multiple Raster Threads: Enabled
Browser OpenGL: Enabled
Browser Rasterization: Enabled
Browser Raw Draw: Disabled
Browser Skia Graphite: Disabled
Browser Video Decode: Enabled
Browser Video Encode: Disabled
Browser Vulkan: Disabled
Browser WebGL: Enabled
Browser WebGL2: Enabled
Browser WebGPU: Disabled
Browser WebNN: Disabled
Video Card:
Driver: AMD AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT (radeonsi, navi32, LLVM 21.1.4, DRM 3.64, 6.17.5-arch1-1)
Driver Version: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 25.2.5-arch1.2
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 239 Hz
VendorID: 0x1002
DeviceID: 0x747e
Revision Not Detected
Number of Monitors: 2
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
Primary Display Resolution: 2560 x 1440
Desktop Resolution: 5120 x 1440
Primary Display Size: 23.50" x 13.23" (26.97" diag), 59.7cm x 33.6cm (68.5cm diag)
Primary VRAM: 16384 MB
Sound card:
Audio device: Realtek ALC897
Memory:
RAM: 96376 Mb

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-294860.log

Symptoms

Game won't launch anymore. Used to launch until update. Seems to be kernal related issue but can't tell. Need help debugging. Log is attached. Most noticeable error is RPC_S_SERVER_UNAVAILABLE exception (code=6ba) raised

Reproduction

Have newest kernal for Arch. Try to launch game.

Ssimifor 2025-10-28 · hidden on GitHub github

@Gideon9212 This seems to be a driver issue

info: Required Vulkan extension VK_KHR_surface not supported

Do you have amdvlk installed?

GGideon9212 2025-10-28 · hidden on GitHub github

@simifor I thought I did but I guess not anymore which would explain why it suddenly didn't work. The update I did removed the lib32 icd-loader for vulkan and didn't fully upgrade my vulkan-radeon driver. I also had to reinstall the vulkan-headers and once I done that, things got fixed. I figured it was either kernal or driver related and I wouldn't have figured that out without you. Thank you. Consider my issue resolved.

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