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Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter (41010)

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Description

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter
  • Steam AppID of the game: 41010

System Information

  • GPU: Intel HD 630
  • Driver/LLVM version: Mesa 19.3.5
  • Kernel version: 5.4.23
  • Link to full system information report as Gist:
  • Proton version: 5.0-4

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.

steam-41010.log

Symptoms

The game hangs before reaching the main menu with an error dialog in the background that reads "The application has malfunctioned and it will now close."

Adding PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command% to the game's launch options avoids the issue.

As a side note, there's hints that this game uses CEG, but works in spite of it.

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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 reviewing steam-41010.log and reproducing Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter with Proton 5.0-4 on the reported Intel HD 630 and Mesa setup. Compare the default launch with PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1; done means the game reaches the main menu without that workaround and the compatibility report is updated with the tested result.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
linux
Domain
operating-systems
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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