ValveSoftware / ValveSoftware/Proton
Deadlight: Director's Cut (423950)
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Description
Compatibility Report
- Name of the game with compatibility issues: Deadlight: Director's Cut
- Steam AppID of the game: 423950
System Information
- GPU: GTX 1060
- Driver/LLVM version: nvidia 418.56
- Kernel version: 5.0.0-13
- Link to full system information report as Gist
- Proton version: 4.2-3
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
- On first run, "Preparing to launch" window always hangs until you restart Steam.
Happened on 2 systems. - White, black, or black and white artifacts of screen all the time except menus.

Reproduction
Start a new game or load a saved 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 reproducing the issue with Deadlight: Director's Cut (Steam AppID 423950) using Proton 4.2-3 and the system details in the report. Inspect steam-423950.log.zip alongside the launch hang and screen artifacts described; done means the game starts and gameplay renders without those symptoms.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- linux
- Domain
- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100