Proton: Bioshock Remastered - Won't Start (409710)

[Thinkaboutmin]

Hello,

Whenever I try to run Bioshock Remastered it's given a message saying that to play it I need Windows 7 or higher. I tried tweaking the version of Proton using Winecfg, but still nothing. Btw, I did some search on it and seems that the same happened on a guy with Wine.

[DissCent]

It actually starts fine for me using stock Proton on Manjaro Linux, although it has some problems in-game.

[miguev]

Freezes early on, so early on I can't even start playing.
First time froze while adjusting gamma.
Last time froze during the 2K logo animation.

Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS x86_64
Kernel: 4.15.0-32-lowlatency
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (driver 390.48)

[Thinkaboutmin]

I noticed that I might have done something wrong. Before I installed Bioshock Remastered, I had modified the Pronton/Wine using Winecfg. Perharps, as I did that, it might have happened something, such as not installing the prerequisites thus, making the game unable to be open. Thanks for the answers, it opens as you guys said.

[miguev]

Why close this issue? Game freezes and crashes with stock Proton on Ubuntu 18.04 for me and other users. Only 4 out of other 12 users[1] report the game as Stable.

[1] as seen in the unofficial SteamPlay Compatibility Report Sheet (3025 reports so far) at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DcZZQ4HL_Ol969UbXJmFG8TzOHNnHoj8Q1f8DIFe8-8/htmlview

[dubigrasu]

@miguev
Try with:
PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 %command%

[Thinkaboutmin]

Actually, the game just didn't start for me. If it crashes or freezes then I think that another issue report should be created. And looking at that sheet, it shows that the ones who are having trouble are using Nvidia old drivers or AMD open source driver. Btw, the driver that you are using should be updated to the newest 396.51 as said in the prerequisites for Proton as the newest DXVK may have some problems on the older Nvidia driver.

[Thinkaboutmin]

seeing the @dubigrasu post, @miguev might as well try this too.
PROTON_USE_WINED3D11=1 %command%
This should disable DXVK and run the Wine D3D11 and maybe the game will run as expected in your computer.

[dubigrasu]

Tried just now (more extensively) Bioshock Remastered on my system and it works (almost) perfectly. It recognized the save I made few months ago and went straight in the game where I left.

I say almost perfectly because of two issues that can be solved though:

• One is that it hangs sometimes when I access the menus or try to save. This one is solved by adding:
  PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 %command%
  to the launch options.
• The second one is the mouse having only a limited range of movement, left+right, up+down (an issue well known for those using Wine). This one can be solved (is actually more like a workaround) by using the Steam Controller with the "Gamepad with Camera Controls" template.
  I also tested an Xbox 360 wired gamepad, which can be argued that it delivers a better experience because it also has the Rumble working.

The performance is good (playing at highest settings) not dropping below 60 FPS, and as a bonus, it doesn't have the stutter I had while playing on Windows, which is the reason I stopped playing the Remastered version back then.

[miguev]

Thank you! Adding PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 %command% to the launch options seems to have fixed both the original and remastered game. The original game was freezing for a few seconds every time I accessed a menu or started a hack of picked up a new plasmid, not anymore!

[DissCent]

I can indeed confirm that PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 %command% fixes all issues! The game runs smoothly, graphics are perfect and I don't even have the "mouse gets stuck when moving" bug.

[P4NCH1]

In my case PROTON_USE_WINED3D11=1 %command% was the command that make it work.

[Xeers]

The games work "perfectly" with:
BioShock: PROTON_NO_D3D11=1 PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 %command%
BioShock Remastered: PROTON_USE_WINED3D11=1 PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 %command%

[dreamer]

@Xeers PROTON_USE_WINED3D10 ? Such variable is not recognized by Proton. Do you mean PROTON_USE_WINED3D11?

[Xeers]

Right, corrected. The game can, exceptionally, close. Save the game every so often.

[DissCent]

Actually, PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 alone does the trick for me. The game runs totally stable for me then (already played half-way through).

[Xeers]

BioShock ™ Remastered has a bug. In the bathisphere station (Point Prometheus) there is an enemy that never dies so it stops you from moving forward and open the door.
Images:

1. https://i.imgur.com/GvuUl3b.png

2. https://i.imgur.com/qddKnd1.png

I loaded a previous game and this time if I could continue.