Sword of the Stars Complete Collection (42890)

Compatibility Report

• Sword of the Stars : Complete Collection
• 42890

System Information

• GPU: RX 580
• Driver/LLVM version: Mesa 19.1.0 (padoka PPA)
• Kernel version: 5.0.5-050005-generic
• s Innecesary information The problem and workaround is documented on WineHQ
• Proton version: 3.16-8 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.

Symptoms

Sword of the Stars needs d3dx9, d3dx9_42, d3dx9_41 and d3dx9_31 native versions to work. See WineHQ AppDb with the last report (That I wrote today) and bug report : https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46924#c4
I simply used winetricks to install d3dx9, d3dx9_42, d3dx9_41 and d3dx9_31 and wine 4.0, and the game works without any problem.

Reproduction

Installs on steam for Linux Sword of the Stars. Try to play. Get a nice black screen and a crash report of the game engine.

The report names no repository files or tests. Start by reproducing the black screen and crash with Proton 3.16-8 beta, then compare the behavior with the WineHQ report and listed d3dx9 dependencies. Done means Sword of the Stars launches and runs without the reported failure.