The Medium (1293160)

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: The Medium
• Steam AppID of the game: 1293160

System Information

• GPU: AMD Radeon VII
• Driver/LLVM version: 20.3.3
• Kernel version: 5.10.9-zen
• Link to full system information report as Gist: https://gist.github.com/alex9k1/8c620acc034b792b003b699b0f624dd2
• Proton version: 5.13-5

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-1293160.log

Symptoms

Cutscenes don't play, screen stays black. They can however be skipped. When skipping a few cutscenes at the beginning, the game seems to run fine.

The game has a normal launch option (assuming DX11) and a launch option for DX12. Both seem to work fine, but have the same issue with the cutscenes.

I also tried to run the game with Proton Experimental, but when starting a new game, I briefly get a distorted image in what seems to be in 4:3 format, although I always use 16:9 and then the game crashes. Happens in normal and DX12 mode.

Reproduction

Launch the game and start a new game.

Reproduce the issue by launching The Medium with Proton 5.13-5 and starting a new game, then inspect steam-1293160.log. Compare the normal and DX12 launch options and Proton Experimental behavior; the work is done when cutscenes display and starting a new game no longer crashes.