kjb
Published
If you're able to use 'top' and 'kill' once you quit, you'll be fine. Game itself seems to work great.
Changed launch options to: PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%
Cannot successfully quit. First time could kill via system monitor (after using a keyboard shortcut to switch desktops). Second time it also made my mouse not work anymore in system monitor or any other windows, so I had to open a terminal and use top and kill -9 before the rest of the desktop environment would work normally again.
This is the demo only.
Blank screen (except custom cursor), no music, 100% CPU after "BEGIN NEW GAME"
I also tried with PROTON_USE_WINED3D11=1 %command%, which usually helps for most games I experience any troubles with. But the result is the same. I haven't tinkered much beyond that.
I noticed that the game takes ~50% CPU while sitting at the desk or the menu. As soon as Begin New Game is chosen and the screen blanks, it takes 100% CPU indefinitely, until I close it externally (right-clicking the task bar after alt-tabbing out, for example.)
Launch parameter: PROTON_USE_WINED3D11=1 %command%
Delete or comment out (with a #) this line in cm3.ini:
StartupMovies = "Movies/loading.mp4".
Without tweaks, it freezes fairly hard on startup, making the system need a reboot via ctrl+alt+f1 terminal because not much else from the Linux Mint GUI works after that, even if you switch desktops.
Several other Proton versions didn't work (6.3, 5.13, Wine-6.20-GE-1, GE-Proton-7-43) but straight 7.0 did!
I didn't tweak anything, just ran it. Performance was fine, except for a slight delay when transitioning between scenes sometimes, but that's probably because my specs aren't the best for gaming. Played through all of Chapter 1 without issues within the game itself. However, the two screenshots I took via the Steam shortcut turned out all black.
On Chapter 1 (the free demo, I think?) yes, but Chapter 2 (paid DLC), no.
Fairly laggy for gamers, but this isn't gamer hardware.
After about 5 minutes of play (no matter the starting point) the game crashes with a message about being out of video memory. On the same hardware, this never happened in Chapter 1, but after purchasing the Season Pass, this happens all the time in Chapter 2, making the game nearly unplayable.
Needed fresh install (didn't work transferred to new hardware)
My Steam cloud save from earlier was missing
Using my preexisting Steam folder (which worked for all the other games in my library that I tried) moved to a new computer, this didn't initially work (would start up and immediately shut down without error...verified all the game files several times). But uninstalling the game entirely and reinstalling it seemed to work, at least the second time.
Creating a player.ini file containing the line, "800 600 32 0 baseCMO.cmo" as a previous reporter suggested. The lips do move like horses, and even worse than intended, I think. They don't look the most natural at https://youtu.be/hmlPReYayts?t=246 but on my machine they look worse than that, like the same effect but very jittery, as if on way too much coffee.
Anyway, without that .ini---even if you lower your desktop resolution to 800x600---the game starts full-screen and you hear sound, but it remains blank, and alt-tabbing causes it to quit, the same as another previous report stated.
Jittery lips as noted.
Crashed asking for my name
Screen comes up OK in a fairly large window, sound works, it asks if you want to calibrate your game experience first, I choose yes, then it says it'll ask me for my name, and hitting enter the window suddenly vanished and Steam said the game was no longer running.
Crashed telling me about available features
Second try, it let me enter my name no problem, and choose a controller layout even though I don't have a controller. It then informed me I could switch between windowed and full screen, which I did a couple of times successfully. The next thing it said crashed the game, so I still didn't get into any actual gameplay.
Once the first three crashes are out of the way, game works like a charm.
The pre-opening dialogue sequence, in which a few options are set, crashed on me three times, at points that were progressively longer from the beginning. After the third crash, the game seemed to work fine. Never seen a game behave quite like that---maybe there was trouble initializing each dialogue type, but once initialized and saved in some global config file, it could load OK and move on?
Played the free demo only, so far. Without the tweak, game launches to a black screen that gets stuck on the current workspace, and you need to go to another workspace to kill it. With the tweak, seems to work fine all the way through to the end of the demo.
Initial window didn't seem to let me pick other options than the default, which was not full screen
First try running Proton with any game (Proton 4.11). Crashed both times I tried it. Log seems to suggest there's no ram whatsoever...
Simply added PROTON_USE_WINED3D11=1 %command% and suddenly it worked fine.
Mouse cursor is invisible (but does open menus, if you go to top/left/right screen edges)
If you manage to (given the invisible mouse cursor) click the Config menu button, or you use the F9 hotkey mentioned in the manual to do the same, the game immediately freezes and never recovers.
FMV doesn't work at all, which is crucial to understanding the dialogue choices.
Never launches a window (stuck until I hit blue cancel button in Steam)
Tried many Proton versions, including 3.16 branch, 8.0 branch, hotfix, and experimental; tried forcing desktop to 1024x768 before launch (with 3.7-8); all have the same result
Played the whole game, only 1 crash---just pushed the limits of the engine---I don't think it was Proton-related, and I couldn't reproduce it.
"PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%" in launch options did the trick.
On first play, after just a few seconds of the intro, I pressed escape and picked "back to title menu" option, after which the game got stuck on its loading animation. Could alt-tab in and out just fine (music would resume when reactivating game) but never got away from loading. Second time I tried this (deleted my save, started again) I didn't hit escape, and it made it fine to the part where you can first control your character.
