Compatibility Report

Quick Note :
This is related to a Framerate Issue, it happend because Dev's "somehow" forced loading time to 12FPS in internal.
On a normal Windows Environment with fast disk access its almost instantaneous, so the 12FPS trigger haven't have the time to start(its start at the end, you can see 12FPS for a fraction of seconds), but for an unknown reason, the Deck even with its Fast SSD struggle to 12FPS at loading times.
Note that it doesn't happend in "The Island" Section of the Game.

Hope this could help VALVE to know where to look for.

That would explain why it takes so long to load. According to protondb, it seems to happen on Linux devices as well as the Steam deck, so it doesn't seem like a deck exclusive problem.

Also checking on the community hub, using protontricks to install dotnet40 seems to drop the loading time from 10 minutes to 5-10 seconds

In my case protontricks just doesn't work, it start the installation of dotnet40 but the installation process want to download some Windows KB but sleep at the download process.

Using Proton-GE and running winetricks to install xna40 and faudio fixes both the loading time issues and the lack of audio for me, works flawlessly after that. Apart from the intro videos sometimes play or not, but gameplay wise it works.

Using Proton-GE and running winetricks to install xna40 and faudio fixes both the loading time issues and the lack of audio for me, works flawlessly after that. Apart from the intro videos sometimes play or not, but gameplay wise it works.

This has send me through a rabbit hole (pun intended), but protontricks fails with the xna40/dot net install. Want to give some pointers?

I haven't tried protontricks for this. But I've just tested it again.

My steps were:

1. Install Hell Yeah!
2. Set compatibility to GE-Proton7-43
3. Run the game once to build prefix then close.
4. Open Terminal and type:

   "WINEPREFIX="Path-to-steam/steamapps/compatdata/205230/pfx/" winetricks -q xna40 faudio"

   (My current local Wine version is 7.22)
5. Once that's finished, run the game again on steam.

This launched, didn't play the intro videos but I loaded my game with full audio and music and no slow loading, only took about 2 seconds.

Installed Mono fron discover, changed the proton to 3.7 and the ran protontricks to install XNA&faudio, then changed back to the current proton after the game seems to work as it should. Thanks for the help

It seems the current has issues with the XNA-install.

This launched, didn't play the intro videos but I loaded my game with full audio and music and no slow loading, only took about 2 seconds.

This is also true with the fix I posted, the cutscenes that worked without xna/faudio do not work after them. So you have to choose between cutscenes with buggy audio with long load times and no background music, or playable game with fast load times with music but no cutscenes.

Still the same as of latest nightly, crackly cutscenes, missing title screen audio, and the game taking 10 minutes to load ingame.

@kisak-valve Wonderful news, the logos still sound a bit crackly and the background music is still missing, but proton Experimental with wine 9.0 seems to have fixed the eternally long loading times on my oled deck, loading up my save file goes from minutes to a mere 3 seconds!

@kisak-valve Wonderful news, the logos still sound a bit crackly and the background music is still missing, but proton Experimental with wine 9.0 seems to have fixed the eternally long loading times on my oled deck, loading up my save file goes from minutes to a mere 3 seconds!

Yop just tested on Deck LCD, really big Progress.

Could someone help me out? I have a brand new up-to-date Deck OLED, but can't get this game to properly work.
I have protontricks, as winetricks is not available to me.
All the steps that I see just doesn't work for me, the loading stays terrible. Anyone here that can give me a up-to-date step-by-step guide that I can follow?
Thanks in advance!

Could someone help me out? I have a brand new up-to-date Deck OLED, but can't get this game to properly work. I have protontricks, as winetricks is not available to me. All the steps that I see just doesn't work for me, the loading stays terrible. Anyone here that can give me a up-to-date step-by-step guide that I can follow? Thanks in advance!

Just use Proton Experimental.

Could someone help me out? I have a brand new up-to-date Deck OLED, but can't get this game to properly work. I have protontricks, as winetricks is not available to me. All the steps that I see just doesn't work for me, the loading stays terrible. Anyone here that can give me a up-to-date step-by-step guide that I can follow? Thanks in advance!

Just use Proton Experimental.

First thing I tried, without any luck.

Dunno what's going on your end, rechecked it on my oled with Experimental and it loads alright, trying it with 9.0-1 brings back the long loading.

Dunno what's going on your end, rechecked it on my oled with Experimental and it loads alright, trying it with 9.0-1 brings back the long loading.

Allright, will empty the proton files and remove/reinstall the game to see if that fixes it with Experimental. I have some time tomorrow to fiddle with it again, already spent hours on it.

Thanks so far.

edit: works now. Thanks alot!
Any fix for the missing music and crackling audio available?

Edit2: Game is crashing after trying to go to level 2, so unplayable. :(

Replying to https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/6217#issuecomment-2110347875

Click on the gear icon, then properties, then in general go down to the launch options box and paste this in "PROTON_LOG=1 %command%". Then play the game again, trigger the crash when going to level 2 and post the log here.

Replying to https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/6217#issuecomment-2111539826

Hereby the log:
steam-205230.log

Any updates on this subject? Love this game and hope I can play it past level 1 on my Steam Deck.
Tips on how to get it working are welcome.

Crackling audio and game crashing after trying to go to level 2 have been fixed in the latest version of wine-mono:
https://github.com/madewokherd/wine-mono/releases/tag/wine-mono-9.2.0

This should make its way in to experimental soon. But if you're keen to try it right away, you can download the MSI and install manually. Instructions for doing so can be found here:
https://github.com/redmcg/wine-mono/wiki#install-later-version

Note the instructions there are for a different game, so you will want to use the steam id of 205230 in place of 359320.

The fixes have hit proton Experimental

Thanks for the updates guys! Now working flawlessly. Just missing background music, that’s all. Hopefully that will be fixed some day.

Logos are sounding perfectly normal on my oled deck too, if the missing music issue could get resolved (on the main menu and ingame), this should be ready to be bumped out of unsupported status.

Hi !

So the game's not working for me on the last experimental. I see a window for a second and then nothing.
I tried with the old Proton 8, and like others on this thread, i had a placeholder for videos and a level take 10 minutes to launch. But i could play it.
I also tried with Proton GE, and it launches but freezes on the first loading screen forever.

I have logged each launch if you want to take a look (i trimmed the GE one, it was hundreds of meg of same lines).

Hope to find a solution, thanks in advance.

steam-205230_proton_ge_9.log
steam-205230_proton_experimental.log
steam-205230-proton_8_0_5.log

Should be fixed in Wine Mono 9.3.1 and 9.4.0. See the note on FNA in the changelog here: https://github.com/madewokherd/wine-mono/releases/tag/wine-mono-9.3.1

Nice, thanks !
Does that mean it's coming to proton experimental later ?

Edit : tried replacing wine-mono with version 9.4.0 like explained here https://github.com/redmcg/wine-mono/wiki#install-later-version
It now gives me the same result as Proton GE, so an infinite loading screen.
Here's my log if you need it
steam-205230.log

Wine Mono 9.3.1 is in the Proton 9.0-4 release candidate.

Hm, dunno what's going on there. I know there were changes that were supposed to fix it. You may want to try the release candidate build, in case that's a regression. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/8268

Alternatively, if you just want to get it working, you can try transcoding the game's media files to ogg yourself: https://gist.github.com/flibitijibibo/c97bc14aab04b1277d8ef5e97fc9aeff

The game launches with proton 9.0-4 rc. Still no video/music in the game, but everything is running smoothly.
I tried also to update wine-mono to 9.4.0 in the release candidate and it works the same. So everything is fine :)

Just been testing Hell Yeah!, I get the same issue with GEProton9-21 as @Nandicre42 mentioned where I get a black screen at the start (I think the video is playing albeit at a frame every several minutes).

However, if I run winetricks (protontricks) to install xna40 then it launches fine, both videos play with minor audio errors and the game functions fully. The intro video plays correctly and the music starts where it should (You have to start a new game, head to the right a lot until you meet an octopus then drop down, then the music starts).

Proton 9.0-4 launches the game without xna40 but skips the videos and there is no music still, as stated by the contributors above. With xna40 applied Proton 9.0-4 crashes attempting to play the first video.

Overall the loading times issue is definitely fixed. To play the game pretty much perfectly you need GEProton9-21 with xna40 applied.

Also just done the first level and boss fight, entered second level with no crash.

Audios still missing with latest Experimental proton