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Dark Sector (29900)

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Description

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: Dark Sector
  • Steam AppID of the game: 29900

System Information

  • GPU: Geforce GTX 970
  • Driver/LLVM version: nvidia 396.54.09
  • Kernel version: 4.15.0-38-generic
  • Proton version: 3.16-4 beta
  • Full system information report

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

Audio playback is borked; the game seems unable to output any sound at all. No amount of fiddling with the game settings or dll overrides seems to fix it. Proton log repeats the following line:

fixme:dsound:IDirectSoundBufferImpl_AcquireResources (0x14be4ca0,00000000,0,(nil)): stub, faking success

Proton log here.

Reproduction

Install, and play game. Listen for audio playback.

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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 with the linked Proton log and the repeated fixme:dsound:IDirectSoundBufferImpl_AcquireResources entry, then reproduce the issue by installing and playing Dark Sector. Trace the audio failure from that entry point; done means the game produces sound under the reported Proton environment and the regression is covered by relevant validation.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
linux
Domain
audio-video-rtc, 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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