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The Room 4: Old Sins

protonopen appid 1361320Game compatibility - UnofficialRegression
ValveSoftware/Proton#4950 · opened 2021-07-07 by jape42 · updated 2022-05-16 · 6 comments · github · game page · search this game
Jjape42 2021-07-07 github

Compatibility Report

Name of the game with compatibility issues: The Room Four
Steam AppID of the game: 1361320

System Information

GPU: nvidia 960m
Driver/LLVM version: 460.80
Kernel version: 5.4.0-77
Proton version: Proton-6.3-5

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
First chunk of the game works in Proton 6-3.5 and Proton experimental, but crashes when you try to enter the attic

Reproduction

Try to enter the attic near the end of the game.

steam-1361320.log

Jjape42 2021-07-07 github

Proton 5.0-10 does not crash. The attic loads up.

Aalasky17 2021-07-07 github

@jape42 Would you mind uploading a save file from just before the crash point to make investigation easier?

Jjape42 2021-07-07 github

Unfortunately the game only keeps one save and it no longer crashes for me using the current save. I checked the steam cloud and there was only the current save there too.

I was able to move past the start of the attic section using proton 5.0-10.

Aalasky17 2021-07-07 github

@jape42 Dang it! Thank you for checking!

Eendrift 2022-05-16 github

I played the whole game in Proton 7 and it didn't crash, but there were what I believe video decoding bugs. Some scenes played in a way that looked like the wrong aspect ratio (too wide and mostly offscreen) and were mostly offwhite, with hints of violet/blue and saturated yellow, which were presumably just in the wrong colorspace or similar. There are only two of these in the game though, one in the Curiosity Room when you insert the eyeball into the mannequin, and one when you beat the game.

Edit: Confirmed, they are videos. Each video seems to have two versions:

Stream #0:0(und): Video: h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p(tv, bt709), 2560x1440 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 7273 kb/s, 24 fps, 24 tbr, 90k tbn, 180k tbc (default)
Stream #0:0(eng): Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p(tv, bt709), 1280x720 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 2751 kb/s, 24 fps, 24 tbr, 24k tbn, 48 tbc (default)

Eendrift 2022-05-16 github

Workaround from Discord: Set the game's launch options to WINE_DO_NOT_CREATE_DXGI_DEVICE_MANAGER=1 %command%

I've attached a save right before the scene with the eyeball. To activate it, click the lens on the right, double click on the sigil, double click on the mannequin in the corner, drag the eyeball into the socket, click on the lens again, then double click on the floating shards.
TheRoom4Save.zip

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