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Motor Town: Behind The Wheel

protonopen appid 1369670Game compatibility - UnofficialXAudio2
ValveSoftware/Proton#8921 · opened 2025-07-21 by Kagukara · updated 2026-01-30 · 6 comments · github · game page · search this game
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KKagukara 2025-07-21 github

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: Motor Town: Behind The Wheel
  • Steam AppID of the game: 1369670

System Information

  • GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (radeonsi, navi31, LLVM 20.1.8, DRM 3.63, 6.15.7-zen1-1-zen)
  • Video driver version: 4.6 Mesa 25.1.6-arch1.1
  • Kernel version: Linux 6.15.7-zen1-1-zen
  • Link to full system information report as Gist: Full System Information - Gist
  • Proton version: proton-9.0-4f

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-1369670_proton-9.0-4f.log

Symptoms

When you select from the list of stations for Internet Radio in-game, none of them produce any audio.

Using the station URL shown in the PROTON_LOG file and using this command via terminal, it produces audio:

gst-play-1.0 http://relay.181.fm:8132

Within the PROTON_LOG file GStreamer reports back it's missing a plug-in and the game is missing a decoder:

6551    winegstreamer error: uridecodebin1: Your GStreamer installation is missing a plug-in.

6557    Missing decoder: ICY internet radio (application/x-icy, metadata-interval=(int)16000)

I have also tested with Proton Experimental [bleeding-edge] and GE-Proton10-10, resulting with the same problem.

Reproduction

  1. Requires you to own the game from the Store
  2. Launch the game with any Proton version
  3. In-game, click "Drive" and setup a lobby, then click "Start"
  4. Press the "Esc" key and navigate to "Radio" → "Internet Radio"
  5. Select any of the stations listed and wait for them to load
  6. No audio is produced once loaded
Vvulonkaaz 2025-08-01 github

System Information

I confirm:

  • [*] that I haven't found an existing compatibility report for this game.
  • [*] that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available.

steam-1369670.log

Symptoms

My framerate is way below what I would expect from a system like mine, 20 FPS on mid settings

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2025-08-01 github

Hello @vulonkaaz, your Proton log tells us that your system is configured to run the game with AMDVLK. It might be interesting to test how it behaves with mesa/RADV.

Vvulonkaaz 2025-08-02 github

RADV works flawlessly i got no framerate issue at all thanks

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2026-01-29 github

Fedora 43 regression VK_ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED seen in Motor Town: Behind The Wheel

Issue transferred from https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/9447.
@pnfox posted on 2026-01-29T23:25:49:

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: Motor Town: Behind The Wheel
  • Steam AppID of the game: 1369670

System Information

  • GPU: RTX4070
  • Video driver version: Nvidia 580.119.02
  • Kernel version: 6.18.7-200
  • Proton version: 1749140930 proton-9.0-4f

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.

Symptoms

Fedora 42 worked fine, after upgrade Motor Town: Behind The Wheel seem to have swapchain fails. Game starts booting but only produces a blank screen, audio is fine. Seen across proton-9.0-4f and proton-experimental. Seen on both GNOME and Hyprland. Seen on both DirectX11 and DirectX12 (game boot options). I believe this to be a regression from upgrading from Fedora 42 to Fedora 43.

Similar behaviour spotted with other games but I need to collect logs and see errors.

Error

Error: D3D11SwapChain: Failed to recreate swap chain: VK_ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED

Reproduction

Install Fedora 43 from scratch
Install akmod-nvidia and steam
Boot up Motor Town: Behind The Wheel
Screen will appear blank and crash

steam-1369670.log

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2026-01-29 github

Hello @pnfox, please copy the contents of Steam Runtime Diagnostics from Steam (Steam -> Help -> Steam Runtime Diagnostics) and put it in a gist, then include a link to the gist in this issue report. I suspect that your NVIDIA driver install is lacking the video driver's 32 bit userspace libraries.

Ppnfox 2026-01-30 github

Fixed my editing the file

/usr/share/applications/steam.desktop

Commenting out the lines as follows:

#PrefersNonDefaultGPU=true
#X-KDE-RunOnDiscreteGpu=true

Then log-out and back into Gnome (wayland). Issue appears to be fixed with these steps.

Seems to be the way the desktop launches steam. Another fix is to launch steam from the terminal (bypassing the desktop launch file), then booting Motor Town as usual.

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