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A Vampyre Story (313870)

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Description

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: A Vampyre Story
  • Steam AppID of the game: 313870

System Information

  • GPU: GTX 970
  • Driver/LLVM version: nvidia 396.54
  • Kernel version: 4.15
  • System info
  • Proton version: 3.7.7-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-313870.log

Symptoms

Game doesn't launch,leaving a process that needs to be killed manually.

Reproduction

Click play play in the steam launcher.

With regular wine (3.16) you need to set up the Windows version to XP else it will freeze on launch.
csmt needs to be off else the game is sluggish and binkw32.dll set to windows native else the movies wont be displayed.

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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 reviewing steam-313870.log and reproducing the launch attempt from the Steam launcher with Proton 3.7.7-beta. Compare the behavior with the reported Wine XP, CSMT, and binkw32.dll settings; done means the game launches without leaving a process that requires manual termination.

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Assessment

Tech stack
linux
Domain
operating-systems
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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