hEatDeath
Published
Won't startup. No errors or logs. "PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command% doesn't work
Finished 75% of campaign so far works perfectly.Old d-pad detects & works properly. Did remap controls via settings. Didnt try multiplayer
My previous 'borked' rating was due to trying to run game off a FAT partition. Now it launches on ext4 partition. But i can only give it 'Bronze' because the mouse cursor stutters making me unable to play. I know i am running a 10 year old craptop but this game is from 2006.
Works better on Proton than Windows 10. Even my d-pad worked without any configuration. Played from start to finish.
FMVs don't work and just skip over (probably DirectVideo or other proprietary windows thing). Apart from that didn't notice many other bugs. Its hard to tell because this game has many bugs of its own that have nothing to do with proton and happen regardless of your platform.
Needed some initla tinkering in settings to get resolution correct.
Some UI glitches like "confirm quit" button not being visible but people on windows also had this issue , so not a proton specific problem.. The confrim button is on the left side of the white box below quit, and your cursor will be yellow when you mouse-over it.
Played from start to finish without any issues. Worked flawlessly
Steam overlay didn't work for some reason for me.
Ignore my previous 'borked' rating. That was because game was installed in FAT partition. Moving to ext4 partition and it works out of the box. Very slow but this is 10 year old craptop so its expected for a unity game like this even on windows.
Initially was crashing with unity dialog box and crash dump. PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 or PROTON_NO_D3D11=1 fixes the issue right away. However it is quite slow on my 10 year old intel gma45 chipset which is a little surprising since this is a 70mb 2d game. But maybe it is the hardware and not Proton. Disabling screen effects makes it much more playable for me. Also lowering resolution; With pixel graphics , low resolution is not much of an issue. Achievements work. Online components like Leaderboards and Custom skins don't.
Tried on decade old centrino laptop, YMMV. On Dos version, Game shows black screen with a laggy mouse cursor. XP version shows file Open dialog box. Tried opening the two exes, one show black screen , other errors out with "Patch code time out"
Thats when i noticed that the packaged game is just a dosboxed version. So 'apt install dosbox' and running command 'dosbox' in the game folder and the game works flawlessly (It uses the dosbox config file in the folder). No lag, no issues whatsoever. So 'runs perfectly after tweaks' if said tweak is sidestepping Steam play completely. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
