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Pathologic Classic HD (384110)

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Description

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: Pathologic Classic HD
  • Steam AppID of the game: 384110

System Information

Distro: Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa (64 bit)
GPU: Vega 56
Driver/LLVM version: Mesa 19.1.0-devel/9.0.0
Kernel version: 5.0.7-050007-generic
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 launch there is a black screen for a couple of seconds and then the game exits.
media_info.txt
steam-384110.log
system_info.txt

in the log I see quartz related things, and videos appear to be wmv

Reproduction

Just launch the game

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First steps

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Research direction

Start by reproducing the launch failure for Steam AppID 384110 and review the attached steam-384110.log, media_info.txt, and system_info.txt. Pay particular attention to the reported quartz-related messages and WMV videos. Done means identifying a supported path for the game to launch past the black screen, with the result verified against the supplied reproduction steps.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
linux
Domain
operating-systems, tooling
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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