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Chip's Challenge 1

protonopen appid 346850Game compatibility - Unofficial
ValveSoftware/Proton#4960 · opened 2021-07-12 by qwertychouskie · updated 2026-08-10 · 12 comments · github · game page · search this game
Qqwertychouskie 2021-07-12 github

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: Chip's Challenge 1
  • Steam AppID of the game: 346850

System Information

  • GPU: RTX 3060 Mobile dGPU/AMD Vega iGPU
  • Driver/LLVM version: Nvidia 460.80-0ubuntu0.21.04.2 / Mesa 21.1.3+git2106261850.9110f5051af~h~mesarc5
  • Kernel version: 5.12.14
  • Link to full system information report as Gist:
  • Proton version: 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.

steam-346850.log

Symptoms

Shows intro text prompts on AMD iGPU and just shows a blank screen on Nvidia. Game crashes when trying to load level on either GPU.

Reproduction

Run Chip's Challenge 1. (Game is free.)

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2021-07-12 github

Hello @qwertychouskie, it looks like this game would benefit from support for Media Foundation maturing.

Blind guess that setting the game's launch options to WINEDLLOVERRIDES="mfplay=d" %command% might get further into the game.

Qqwertychouskie 2021-07-12 github

I just tested that, and it just results in the game crashing before a window ever appears.

Rrawlingsr 2021-11-08 github

This game is working in upstream wine, as of 6.21 so I expect this game to no longer crash when Valve rebases their version of wine. I copied the change from upstream wine into the experimental branch, and the game did not crash.

https://github.com/setibeings/wine/commit/966b2cd2c55bd06f026f32789efd19d440287ba0

Music still didn't work, but I was able to play the game without problems

Wine did have this in the log every time a level started:

0474:fixme:mfplat:audio_renderer_get_service_GetService Unsupported service {866fa297-b802-4bf8-9dc9-5e3b6a9f53c9}, interface {0a9ccdbc-d797-4563-9667-94ec5d79292d}.
0474:fixme:mfplat:session_start Seeking is not implemented.

It's not much of a leap to assume this is related to the music still not playing.

Qqwertychouskie 2021-11-08 github

Great to hear! Hopefully the fix gets pulled into Proton soon.

Qqwertychouskie 2023-06-23 github

Game doesn't crash anymore nowadays. It works completely fine with AMD iGPU, but still just has black screen with Nvidia dGPU.

Log when running with Nvidia dGPU:
steam-346850.log

Qqwertychouskie 2023-06-23 github

Also opened up a WineHQ Bugzilla report: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55112

Llucifertdark 2023-06-23 github

I just ran it with my Nvidia GTX 1650 & the game runs perfectly for me, log below in case it helps.
steam-346850.log

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2023-06-23 github

Hello @qwertychouskie, it should be noted that Proton issues should not be summary forwarded to the upstream wine issue tracker. If you suspect an issue with wine, then test the game with vanilla wine before reporting it upstream.

Setting that aside, please detail how you're having the game run on your NVIDIA GPU. In particular, if you're on an Optimus laptop, are you using prime render offload and including __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia as one of the environment variables for the video driver to see?

Qqwertychouskie 2023-06-23 github

I'm just launching Steam normally in Gnome, Gnome is making it run on the dGPU automatically. If I right-click Steam and select "Launch using Integrated Graphics Card" then launch Chip's Challenge, then it works normally.

Qqwertychouskie 2024-03-27 github

Issue (black screen on Nvidia) is still present with Proton 9.0 Beta.

HHoff16 2026-08-09 github

Main menu music still isn't playing after a level restart/level completed event. I am working on troubleshooting where the issue is exactly.

HHoff16 2026-08-10 github

FYI after some troubleshooting I've opened an upstream Wine bug report to fix the audio not playing after a level completion/restart.

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60153

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