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HeXen II black screen or crash (9060)

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Description

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: HeXen II
  • Steam AppID of the game: 9060

System Information

  • GPU: GTX 1060
  • Driver/LLVM version: nvidia 396.54
  • Kernel version: 4.15
  • Link to full system information report as Gist
  • Proton version: 3.7-6 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.

steam-9060.log - this is a log with black screen

Symptoms

Game either crashes immediately, or black screens and needs to be killed.

Reproduction

Install and run HeXen II
Warning: if it black screens, the log will grow by 1GB every 3-5 seconds, make sure to kill the process soon.

Note

Game needs OpenGL support and as far as I could understand it was removed from Wine a long time ago. Not sure if this can be solved.

Contributor guide

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reproducing HeXen II with Proton 3.7-6 Beta and inspect steam-9060.log alongside the linked system information report. Confirm whether the game crashes or produces a black screen, and verify that the log does not grow rapidly; the report does not identify a specific implementation point or test beyond running the game.

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Assessment

Domain
operating-systems
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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