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Hiragana Battle launches to black screen (438270)
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Description
Compatibility Report
- Name of the game with compatibility issues: Learn Japanese to Survive! Hiragana Battle
- Steam AppID of the game: 438270
System Information
- GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX650
- Driver/LLVM version: Nvidia 396.54
- Kernel version: 4.18.9
- System Information
- Proton version: 3.7-6
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.
Symptoms
Game launches, but the window stays black after a quick white flash. No other errors appear and the game must be killed in task manager.

Reproduction
Install and launch the game
Contributor guide
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the attached steam-438270.log and reproducing the launch with Proton 3.7-6 using the listed system details. The work is complete when Learn Japanese to Survive! Hiragana Battle launches without the black screen and no longer requires termination through the task manager.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100