Creatures Docking Station

protonopen appid 1659050Game compatibility - Unofficial

ValveSoftware/Proton#5426 · opened 2021-12-20 by truboxl · updated 2022-01-15 · 5 comments · github · game page · search this game

Ttruboxl 2021-12-20 github

Compatibility Report

Name of the game with compatibility issues: Creatures Docking Station
Steam AppID of the game: 1659050

System Information

GPU: Intel HD Graphics 4000 (IVB GT2)
Driver/LLVM version: Mesa 21.2.2
Kernel version: 5.15.5-76051505-generic
Link to full system information report as Gist: https://gist.github.com/truboxl/d89d8496d53cea55cb358acaa5c00ac2
Proton version: Proton 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.

Symptoms

Unable to launch the game. Getting the error:

"The game can not continue: Please change your display settings to be 'High Color (16 bit)'"

Screenshot from 2021-12-20 22-23-09

Reproduction

Simply launch the game and choose "Play Creatures Docking Station"

Notes

There simply no easy way to set 16bit color depth in Linux.

Wine suggest we have to fiddle with /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ or /etc/X11/xorg.conf and set something along the lines of DefaultDepth 16. But that will cause Steam not to start. See https://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ

10.4 Graphics
10.4.1 My application complains about being unable to change the resolution or color depth
You generally need to edit the Screen section of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf to support additional color depths and resolutions. There may also be a problem with Xrandr.

Another method is to use Xephyr. See https://wiki.winehq.org/256_Color_Mode
So far adding this line to Launch Options works for me:

Xephyr :2 -ac -resizeable -screen 1280x720x16 & env DISPLAY=:2 %command%

Additionally need to add these registries to steamapps/compatdata/1659050/pfx/user.reg or use protontricks
to disable window decoration and window manager control
since there is no window manager running in Xephyr.
Running mutter or another WM in Xephyr seems to mess things up for me.

[Software\\Wine\\X11 Driver] 1639931810
#time=1d7f4f69fbce18e
"Decorated"="N"
"Managed"="N"

Going full screen and then back to windowed screen seems to break the game however. Audio still running though. Alt+Enter sometimes fixes the problem.

Ttruboxl 2021-12-20 github

steam-1659050.log

Ttruboxl 2022-01-09 github

It seems whatever new updates applied to my system broke the game forever from starting
I am unable to pinpoint whether the cause is from Pop!_OS or Steam Runtime or Proton
Applying the registries does not fix the problem
The only thing I changed is the Launch Options or it will stuck with the 16 bit problem

This looks like Wine C++ Runtime error. Clicking Cancel a few times will lead to the second screenshot. Any options from there on just won't start the game.

Screenshot from 2022-01-09 10-49-03

Log captured using: Xephyr :2 -ac -resizeable -screen 1280x720x16 & env DISPLAY=:2 PROTON_LOG=1 %command%
steam-1659050.log

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2022-01-09 github

Hello @truboxl, fixme:d3d:wined3d_guess_card No card selector available for card vendor 0000 (using GL_RENDERER "llvmpipe (LLVM 13.0.0, 256 bits)"). looks like the line of interest from your log. Llvmpipe is mesa's faster software, and if Proton is trying to use that, then there's a good chance that it has given up on trying to use GPU hardware. Please copy your system information from Steam (Steam -> Help -> System Information) and put it in a gist, then include a link to the gist in this issue report.

Ttruboxl 2022-01-15 github

Thanks @kisak-valve

That seems to be the cause. I am using https://launchpad.net/~kisak/+archive/ubuntu/kisak-mesa. Rolling back to Pop!_OS / Ubuntu default drivers able to boot the game up.

https://gist.github.com/truboxl/35e5ff9545c4815b498bf7453277041c

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2022-01-15 github

Looking at your system information, it looks like your video driver is healthy. The hints suggest that there's a subtle regression in mesa that should be reported to the mesa devs to ponder.