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Back to the Future: Ep 4 - Double Visions (94520)

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Description

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: Back to the Future: Ep 4 - Double Visions
  • Steam AppID of the game: 94520

System Information

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

Episode 4 (appid 94520) specifically does not render correctly, but the other episodes do.

Comparison images between episode 3 (appid 94510) and episode 4 (appid 94520):

https://imgur.com/a/MvK1Vej

As the camera moves away from characters, they become darker in appearance which also produces noticeable triangular artefacts. Other surfaces e.g. in the initial main menu background also don't render correctly.

Tested on both AMDGPU and Radeon kernel drivers, both produce the same results.

Reproduction

Simply playing the game.

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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 Back to the Future: Ep 4 (Steam AppID 94520) with Proton 3.7-8 and compare its rendering with Episode 3 (AppID 94510), focusing on the darkened characters, triangular artefacts, and menu surfaces. Check whether the behavior remains with the reported AMDGPU and Radeon drivers; done means Episode 4 renders correctly without those artefacts.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
cpp, linux
Domain
computer-graphics, operating-systems
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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