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Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey cut scenes intermittent sound and interlaced/lagged stop-motion rendering

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#8014 · opened 2021-08-24 by stixholder · updated 2021-08-24 · 0 comments · github
Sstixholder 2021-08-24 github

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When starting and during the game, cut scenes will only be rendered in a very very slow per-image manner, first interleaved half-image/frame, then 2nd image part, then black, then first interleaved part next frame and so on (probably only the first image/frame of each sub-scene is rendered each). Also, the sound is only played intermittent / in very short stutter intervals. Wildly hacking CTRL+X/Q / ALT+X/Q / ESC seems to shorten the otherwise very long duration.

When starting the game, afterwards the game menu renders and works without any obvious problem. Also the game itself seems to run smoothly and very playable. Some keys cannot be assigned to movements or Abe speaking, like keypad or number keys, but that might be a game 'feature'.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. run the game (no matter which compatibility Proton version)
  2. wait or try shorten way to the game level, play to next level
  3. see problems with intro video and same problems with cut scene videos

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