Proton: Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 (357190)

[cybik]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3
• Steam AppID of the game: 357190
• ProtonDB entry with reports: https://www.protondb.com/app/357190

System Information

• OS: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
• KERNEL: 4.15.0-38-generic
• CPU: Intel Core i7-8700K @ 3.70GHz
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
• GPU DRIVER: NVIDIA 410.73
• RAM: 32 GB
• Proton Version: 3.16-4 Beta
• Specs gist: available here

I confirm:

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

Proton Log

Available on the gist here.

Symptoms

Game loads and plays somewhat fine. The issue is that the Music track plays correctly, but most (if not all) sound effects are not played. Menu audio is missing, button click "event" audio is missing, etc.

Reproduction

1. Install
2. Run
3. Scroll through the menu
   
   
   
   • Realize half the audio experience is missing.
   
   

Other Issues

1. Multiple reports of missing movie playback

Possible fixes

A ProtonDB user reports that installing XACT manually into UMVC3's prefix will fix the issue. This might indicate that corrections to Proton/Wine's XAudio implementation could end up fixing this game straight into "Test for Whitelist" territory.

[nightsky30]

I don't think the intro movie plays, though that isn't a blocker. And I've had a few instances where the game seems to have frozen during transition between player selection and starting the match. But mostly it plays well.

[HonkingGoose]

What kind of file is the intro movie? .wmv file playback is not working in Proton yet.

The Proton log says:

17462.511:0026:0027:trace:module:load_dll looking for L"WMVCore.DLL" in L"Z:\\Depot\\Games\\steamapps\\common\\ULTIMATE MARVEL VS. CAPCOM 3;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Steam;C:\\windows\\system32;C:\\windows\\system;C:\\windows;.;C:\\windows\\system32;C:\\windows;C:\\windows\\system32\\wbem"

So it looks like its related to .wmv file playback, because it mentions: WMVCore.DLL.
If it is indeed a .wmv file, playback of those files is tracked here: #1464

[nded03]

I've had the game get stuck at the character select screen too. Disabling esync seems to fix it as well as improve overall stability. I can also confirm that installing xact to the prefix fixes the audio issues, and the intro cut scene is indeed a .wmv file.

[HonkingGoose]

@nded03 Thanks for the confirmation that the intro cut scene is a .wmv file. I'll add the game to the list at #1464

[emmetoneillpdx]

It seems that the latest Proton release (3.16-5) has totally fixed the audio issues in this game. Other than some mostly superficial issues (for example, a crash on exiting to desktop) the game seems to run, look, and sound as if it were native. Great work Proton devs!

[cybik]

@flibitijibibo, we don't deserve you.

THANKS.

[massatt212]

anyone solve the stuttering and mini lags when playing ?

[AwesamLinux]

Can confirm that game works fine but the videos are skipped/not played

Distro: Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa (64 bit)
GPU: Vega 56
Driver/LLVM version: Mesa 19.1.0-devel/9.0.0
Kernel version: 5.0.12-050012-lowlatency
Proton version: 4.2-3

media_info.txt
steam-357190.log
system_info.txt

Proton log mentions "2362.124:0028:0050:fixme:wmvcore:WMCreateSyncReader ((nil), 1, 0x38f0478): stub"

@HonkingGoose WMVCore.dll and games codecs are: WMV, VC-1 + WMA