Democracy 4

protonclosed appid 1410710Game compatibility - Unofficial

ValveSoftware/Proton#6897 · opened 2023-06-30 by Folling · updated 2024-09-22 · 2 comments · github · game page · search this game

FFolling 2023-06-30 github

Compatibility Report

Name of the game with compatibility issues: Democracy 4
Steam AppID of the game: 1410710

System Information

GPU: AMD 6800XT
Driver/LLVM version: Mesa 23.1.2
Kernel version: Linux 6.3.8_1
Link to full system information report as Gist: https://gist.github.com/Folling/4427bf5393841f23e8ca46684be2c558
Proton version: multiple. latest was 8.0-2.

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-1410710.log

Symptoms

Launching fails relatively quickly with a messagebox that displays the following:

Failed to iniitialize 3D Engine:D\programming\democracy 4\builds\Democracy4\src_all_operating_systems\app\app_game.cpp 406

Reproduction

Launch the game.

PS: As I'm on wayland, I'm setting SDL_VIDEODRIVER=x11, otherwise the game doesn't launch at all since the bundled SDL fails to select a backend.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2023-06-30 github

Hello @Folling, it looks like this game uses the Windows variant of SDL2 (trace:loaddll:build_module Loaded L"Z:\\mnt\\data\\steam\\steamapps\\common\\Democracy 4\\SDL2.dll" at 01680000: native). This could be getting confused by SDL_VIDEODRIVER=x11. It would be interesting to test how the game behaves with the game's launch options set to SDL_VIDEODRIVER=windows %command%. (https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/5587#issuecomment-1202309902)

FFolling 2023-06-30 github

Would you look at that. Thanks a bunch!

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