@williamjcm this game should run better with the current proton experimental bleeding edge.
I tried the bleeding edge branch of Experimental, and while there seems to have been an improvement, it might also just be some random chance in regard to the framerate issues.
During the first boss fight of the game, which is just after the last save point I interacted with, I saw Steam's FPS counter hover around 40 FPS for most of the fight, with some very short (less than a second) jumps to 60 FPS here and there.
@williamjcm I didn't get sharp drops during the boss fight, the only one I saw in my limited testing was when using the healing station, but this also happened on windows. Could you say if setting echo high | sudo tee /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_dpm_force_performance_level akes a difference for you?
Before I run that command, does it require a reboot to apply the change ?
Before I run that command, does it require a reboot to apply the change ?
It applies immediately, and you can set it back to auto with echo auto | sudo tee /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_dpm_force_performance_level
Lastly, if that still doesn't work, I also noticed that wined3d was working better on this game than the dxvk version from stable, which you can enable by adding PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 before %command% (add it if you don't have it) in the game's launch parameters in steam's properties.
I tried both the power setting and forcing WineD3D, separately then together, and I didn't notice any improvement either.
Versions after Proton 7.0-6 introduced new regression, where not only game lags more, loading times (from main menu to in-game) take much longer. It seems that game actually freezes, as running game with wine-9.0 displays "application is not responding" message. Tested with various graphics settings, Radeon and integrated Intel GPU - same issues everywhere, so this probably not related to particular GPU.
Hello @joshas, please add PROTON_LOG=1 %command% to the game's launch options, reproduce the regression, and attach the generated $HOME/steam-$APPID.log to this issue report as a file. (Proton logs compress well if needed.) Also, please copy your system information from Steam (Steam -> Help -> System Information) and the contents of Steam Runtime Diagnostics from Steam (Steam -> Help -> Steam Runtime Diagnostics) and put them in a gist, then include a link to the gist in this issue report.
Logs: steam-441280.zip
System information: https://gist.github.com/joshas/56d0d666722643130ee27cf243ce7241
Steam Runtime Diagnostics: https://gist.github.com/joshas/52ccf31f0dfcc462f69e143bd113441e
Two other issues to note:
Both issues are occurring in other game, "Action Mogura", by same developer, built using same "Clickteam Multimedia Fusion 2 engine (referred to as "Mogura engine"). I already reported them to WineHQ Bugzilla:
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53470
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53473
Note, that more recent games from same developers, built on newer versions of Clickteam Fusion engine ("Mogura Engine 2"), are working without any issues with Proton 9.0-2:
proton 9.0-2x1 2024-07proton 7.0-6x1 2024-07proton experimentalx1 2024-02PROTON_LOG=1x1 2024-07PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1`x1 2024-02
Compatibility Report
System Information
I confirm:
steam-441280.log
Symptoms
Game performance is lower than expected, with many framerate drops that slow the game down. Framerate rarely stays at 60 FPS, and can go as low as 25 FPS. Whenever a framerate drop occurs, it's sustained for several seconds, and will usually fluctuate between 30-ish and 50-ish.
Reproduction
Just get into the game and play.