@kisak-valve I have added a game log file

steam-372360.log

Same here, game launches and freezes entirely

System Information

• GPU: AMD Radeon R7 Kaveri 1GB
• Driver/LLVM version: Mesa 17.2.4/5.0.0
• Kernel version: 4.14.0-0.steamos.81-amd64
• Full system information report: here
• Proton version: 3.7-3 and 3.7-6 Beta

steam-372360.log

Tried running again with proton version 3.16-4, still freezing on launch. Logs in case they're useful.

steam-372360.log
steam_system_info.txt

Edit to avoid mass ping: As per these test results on WineHQ, I tried following the instruction to turn fullscreen off in the config file. Unfortunately, game still freezes.

I have additional information for this bug; If you start the game with wine instead of proton and have installed steam into the prefix (winetricks steam), it start steam.exe. It then ask to install the game in the steamapps folder of that prefix. If you do and try to start the game again with the windows steam running in Wine, the game will launch normally and will not crash. This means that this game work properly in Wine and the issue is somewhere else.

I couldn't test protontricks 372360 steam because it didn't work, but I am pretty sure the solution is in that direction.

steam-372360.log
Log on latest proton. Using custom built proton from wine 4.7/4.8 I see no difference in the crash behavior. This game does play videos on startup which is probably at least part of the problem. One of the video workarounds might help.

It's probably a DRM issue (CEG, from Steam...). The solution from @enimog is exactly how to fix this issue. The other solution for other games is to use a cracked exe, but none of them I've tested work =/

So I sort of used @enimog's solution and did get around whatever the hanging issue is. I linked my common folder into WineSteam's steamapps, and just discovered the files rather than installing new ones.

The game runs okay. I'm loading into a cloud save and discovering that the save file menu is really slow. Battles are okay, except when particles start to get crazy. That said, any battle with Colette in it (at the point I'm at she's got her "angel wings", purple/pink particle effects that are constantly following her) is super slow.

So on top of possible DRM issues, we've got some graphical issues.

Also, I actually tried running this under Proton and rather than a black window, the game is now hanging on a white screen. Here's a new log:

steam-372360.log

Tales of Symphonia works out of the box with Proton 5.0-5.

I can also confirm, Tales of Symphonia work out of the box with Proton 5.0-5

I can also confirm that it works out of the box.

...but the out-of-the-box experience actually kinda sucks a little bit. Like... the textures look like booty. So I wanted to install TSFix so I could inject 4K textures and other fixes. It didn't work. It looks like it needs vcomp140.dll.C2VectParallel, which wine has stubbed out and unimplemented. Kaldaien--the mod author--says it's related to the mod having been built with OpenMP support, and he doesn't have access to an older codebase that he could build without it.

Here's the link to that discussion.

Would getting that to work be in context for this issue?

@HugLifeTiZ Hello, how did you perform the injection? I believe Wine finally got the missing function implemented and we could give this another go.

When playing Tales of Symphonia consistently after about 17 minutes of gameplay (Not counting the opening video) the game will develop a constant buzzing or static noise. This is especially apparent after returning to the title screen. I tested Proton Experimental, Proton 9.0-2, Proton 8.0-5, Proton 7.0-6, Proton 6.3-8, Proton 5.13-6 and Proton 5.0-10 without finding a good version. Proton GE 9-5 caused the issue to appear much sooner.

Is anyone else able of reproducing this? Any ideas how to resolve it?