Heavy Rain (960910)

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Heavy Rain
• Steam AppID of the game: 960910

System Information

• GPU: NVIDIA TU102 [GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Rev. A]
• Driver/LLVM version: 440.100
• Kernel version: 5.4.0-39-generic
• Link to full system information report as Gist: https://gist.github.com/leinardi/a28dbf12e8ae0b507f6ddd163fa408ba
• Proton version: 5.0-9

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-960910.log

Symptoms

1. The character facial animations are broken and completely out of sync with the voice dubbing
2. The game stutter heavily when entering new areas

Reproduction

1. Install the game
2. Start the game
3. Start a dialog with some other character (it's easier to reproduce in the Demo since the full game starts with a tutorial where no interactions with other characters for quite some time).

As a workaround for the facial animation issue it is possible to use the following WINEDLLOVERRIDES as game launch options:

WINEDLLOVERRIDES="xaudio2_7=n,b" %command%

Start with steam-960910.log and the linked system information report, then reproduce the dialog and area-transition symptoms on Proton 5.0-9 using the listed system. Compare behavior with and without the documented WINEDLLOVERRIDES workaround. Done means facial animation is synchronized with voice dubbing and area transitions no longer stutter.