Proton: Final Fantasy VIII (39150)

[adrianlshaw]

Edit: Game works very well with the exception that there is no music. Sound effects do work, however.

Specs: Proton 3.7-3, Ubuntu 18.04, NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800

[vandergail]

This game uses DirectMusic so the music is not working for me.

[Zero86Sk]

I can conform, music dosnt work.

[adrianlshaw]

Tested again and I noticed the same here. Music in the videos dies work but not in the game. Sound effects do work, however. I've updated the issue description to reflect this.

[nstgc]

Have any of you tried WINEPREFIX=/path/to/prefix/ WINE=/path/to/proton/wine winetricks dmusic dsound? Or perhaps ...winetricks --force xact?

[ryad-eldajani]

@nstgc yes, I have tested directmusic (which includes dsound) and xact. Result: Unfortunately the game won't start, it hangs with a black screen and cracking sound. Only reverting to builtin libraries makes the game runnable again (of course without background music though).

[cdr255]

For me on Fedora 28, the advice here to install directmusic via WINEPREFIX="<Steam library path>/steamapps/compatdata/39150/pfx" winetricks directmusic but then set dsound to builtin using WINEPREFIX="<Steam library path>/steamapps/compatdata/39150/pfx" winecfg made the stock background music play without issue.

[andreacorinti]

same here (Ubuntu 18.04)

I've also used this -> https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=594277140 because the original music from the PC version was really bad midi

[ryad-eldajani]

I can confirm the workaround from @cdr255 works like a charm. Thank you very much!

[Pantar2205]

can confirm installing directmusic via winetricks makes game perfect. 37 hours played and can't find anything wrong.
1 error left is that when you quit the game the launcher for it crashes.
if music and that error is fixed, i would describe this title as flawless and it should be whitelisted.

thank you for your work

[shoober420]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: FINAL FANTASY VIII
• Steam AppID of the game: https://steamdb.info/app/39150/

System Information

• GPU: GTX 760
• Driver/LLVM version: NVIDIA 440.59
• Kernel version: 5.5.2
• https://gist.github.com/shoober420/1215c40214cf70e1fabb760b5bd2a341
• Proton version: 4.11-12

LOG:
steam-39150.log

Symptoms

Game runs great, except theres no music as mentioned previously.

[landon-williams]

There have been a couple of reports about having save files lost / deleted; one person guessed that it may have been related to the Winetricks customization.
Has anything else been discovered since? For example, if very few users are affected by it, or that it's a one-time data loss that only occurs as you first apply the Winetricks customization.

[adrianlshaw]

I've had data loss on FF7 but I'm not sure whether it relates to Wine or to Square Enix's software.