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protonopen appid 1224600Game compatibility - Unofficial
ValveSoftware/Proton#6405 · opened 2022-12-23 by KhamilloKing · updated 2022-12-29 · 2 comments · github · game page · search this game
KKhamilloKing 2022-12-23 github

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: G String
  • Steam AppID of the game: 1224600

System Information

  • GPU: Nvidia Geforce RTX 3060
  • Driver/LLVM version: Nvidia 525.60.11
  • Kernel version: 6.0.13-201.fsync.fc36.x86_64
  • Link to full system information report as Gist: System Info
  • 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.

Proton Log

Symptoms

No audio after start-up video and crashes after two minutes.

Reproduction

Boot, select new game and start at the first chapter, it will consistently crash during the initial cut scene.

KKhamilloKing 2022-12-26 github

Further information after reading the latest patch notes and testing the game on a Windows dual boot: the crashing issue is a known bug that may happen to some computers, it is resolved when adding "+novid" (with the quotation marks on my case) to the launch options. What remains as Proton compatibility issues are the lack of sounds and an issue with displaying fonts within the generic Source engine menus (Options, Chapter Select, Saves, etc.) where certain lines of the letters are not rendered as they do in Windows.

Proton log from latest test

Screen shot showing the font issue within the generic source engine menus, certain lines of the letters are not rendered as they do in Windows.

Tthasreal 2022-12-29 github

The lack of sound is a bug that affects some Windows players as well. You can get around it by opening gstringv2_dir.vpk with GCFScape, then extracting the sound folder to steamapps/common/G String/gstringv2 (and replacing the sound subfolder if it exists).

Proton log

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