Proton: Breath of Death VII (107300)

[BrunoDSL]

System Information

• GPU: Radeon HD 6290
• Driver/LLVM version: AMD PALM (DRM 2.50.0 LLVM 6.0.0)
• Kernel version: 4.15.0-36-generic
• Link to full system information report as Gist: https://gist.github.com/MR4Y/7ce7074e1fa89498b6cb6c0ba0d321d6
• Proton version: 3.16.3-beta

I confirm:

• that I haven't found an existing compatibility report for this game.
• that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available.

~bootstrap_log.txt~

Symptoms

Game fails to install .NET 4.5 and XNA 4.0 in order to run and it will show as 'Running' on the library, then close after a few seconds. Further testing adding those packages and other dependencies following this game's WineHQ entry (https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=24670) show that the game doesn't run if you configure its prefix as 32 bits in order for WMP9 or WMP10 (Which can't install on 64 bit prefixes) to be installed. If you install the other dependencies on a 64 bit prefix, the game opens, but can't proceed further because its video intro can't be played and just displays a window with an error message inside it.

Reproduction

1 - Install the game
2 - Launch it

[Glog78]

One thought ... maybe this is better ported with xna2fna :) the question is with ethan on board and valve behind -> maybe contacting the dev's would be cool. There are a few more games which works that way.

[BrunoDSL]

Considering that the dev's latest game is cross platform, but none of the games before it are... It might be a fruitless effort.

[flibitijibibo]

This game should work with 4.2-3 after using this script in the game directory:

https://gist.github.com/flibitijibibo/c97bc14aab04b1277d8ef5e97fc9aeff

[Glog78]

Thank you flibit for including fna :) i wonder when people will notice :) great job.
the following 3 games works now with the script running before first start:

• Breath of Death VII
• Cthulhu Saves the World
• Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Recipice of Darkness 3
• Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Recipice of Darkness 4 (out of the box without dotnet now and without script)

My small testing. Thank you

PS -> Lords of Xulima works also without dotnet installation now but the font rendering is broken i supose because of slimdx (maybe)

[AwesamLinux]

Can confirm that the game does not work out of the box without re-encoding the videos. (game opens up with a crashlog)

Distro: Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa (64 bit)
GPU: Vega 56
Driver/LLVM version: Mesa 19.1.0-devel/9.0.0
Kernel version: 5.0.10-050010-lowlatency
Proton version: 4.2-3

media_info.txt
steam-107300.log
system_info.txt

Videos are in WMV, VC-1 + WMA

Assuming this game uses XNA VideoPlayer based in the log I see mentions of "Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Video.dll"

[shoober420]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Breath of Death VII
• Steam AppID of the game: https://steamdb.info/app/107300/

System Information

• GPU: GTX 760
• Driver/LLVM version: NVIDIA 440.44
• Kernel version: 5.4.15
• https://gist.github.com/shoober420/1215c40214cf70e1fabb760b5bd2a341
• Proton version: 4.11-12

LOG:
steam-107300.log

Symptoms

Crash at launch with error message.