Proton: Worms WMD (327030)

[Protonator]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Worms WMD
• Steam AppID of the game: 327030

System Information

• GPU: GeForce GTX 1080
• OS: Manjaro Cinnamon
• Driver/LLVM version: NVIDIA 430.26, Mesa 19.1.3
• Kernel version: 5.2.4
• Proton version: 4.2 and 4.11
• Full system information

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.

steam-327030.log

Symptoms

According to the title screen, Worms WMD servers are not reachable, thus features like the Ranked mode, the global chat and the Ranked stats doesn't work.

Reproduction

1. Launch the game with Proton
2. Open global chat, Ranked stats or Ranked mode. None of these features are usable.

Working features

Unranked multiplayer, private chats, solo mode and all other game or menu options are fully functional via Proton, beside (known Proton) problems with Steam overlay, special characters and video playback (WMV). Under Windows 10 on the same system all of the above problems doesn't exist.

[AwesamLinux]

System Information

• GPU: RX VEGA 56
• GPU Driver: Mesa ACO 19.1.0+aco+git1564747450-10690f8d9e6-1bionic1 (Valves PPA)
• Kernel version: 5.2.5-050205-lowlatency
• Distro version: Linux Mint 19.2 Tina (64 bit) (Cinnamon Desktop)
• Proton version: 4.11-1

Compatibility Report

I can confirm that videos do not play (just black screens, have to wait/press keys to continue). Other than that offline single player appears to work fine (did not try online multiplayer).

1464 Videos are: WMV, VC-1 + WMA

Looks like a quartz game, In the logs I see 26602.765:0027:0028:err:quartz:GetClassMediaFile Media class not found

media_info.txt
steam-327030-d9vk-proton-4.11-1b.log
steam-327030-proton-4.2-9.log
steam-327030-proton-4.11-1b.log
system_info.txt

(Note that this game is listed as a Linux native on Steam, was the Linux version removed at some point?)

[Protonator]

(Note that this game is listed as a Linux native on Steam, was the Linux version removed at some point?)

No, but the native Linux version is not well tested and doesn't work out of the box with certain distributions other than Ubuntu. I haven't been able to get it work under Manjaro with the circulating workarounds. But even if it works, you have no functioning Steam overlay there, too. That's the reason why I switched to Proton for the game.

[Pigpog]

I haven't been able to get it work under Manjaro with the circulating workarounds.

I was able to play Worms on Manjaro by following this guide.

Hope this helps.

[Protonator]

I just tried it again with the guide and recognized that I formerly haven't adjusted the path names in the script. Now the native Linux version works here, too. I also had to install the packages lib32-libcurl-gnutls and wavpack and symlink the libcurl-gnutls. So thank you very much for the tip!

By the way: Other than via Proton, video playback is working in the native Linux version thanks to wavpack. And I can use special characters like vowels there, too. Ranked multiplayer and Steam overlay are broken in both variants, though. And the game only has a 60 Hz option (other than with Proton, where I can set and use up to 144 Hz), which leads to a hardly playable mouse lag. I will switch back to Proton now.

Edit: As a workaround I let Steam switch to US keyboard layout when the game starts, so I can at least use "?" in the ingame chat. After I exit the game it switches automatically back to my German layout. This is the specific game launch option:

gamemoderun setxkbmap us && strangle 140 %command%; setxkbmap de

As you can see, it involves the Feral gamemode and the fps limiter libstrangle, too.

[pinpox]

Any workaround to get ranked multiplayer working on Linux?