Way of the Samurai 4 (312780)

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Way of the Samurai 4
• Steam AppID of the game: 312780

System Information

• GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1650 SUPER
• Driver/LLVM version: NVIDIA 460.73.01
• Kernel version: 5.11.0-7614-generic
• Link to full system information report as Gist:
• Proton version: 6.3-5

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-312780-crash.log

Symptoms

(PROTON_NO_ESYNC is required otherwise game will freeze on a black screen at boot.)

Game crashes if opening logos/cutscene are skipped. The only way to reliably get past them and to the title screen is to mash spacebar as soon as the game boots and hope you're quick enough to skip them before they start playing, or to let them play out completely, which takes 2-3 minutes. Attempting to skip them any time after they begin to play results in a crash.

(Logos/cutscene are WMV and thus appear as test patterns, as expected with vanilla Proton. Using alternate Proton for proper video playback results in working videos but is otherwise unchanged regarding crashes upon skipping.)

Reproduction

Press spacebar to skip opening logos/cutscene.

Start by reproducing the crash with Steam AppID 312780 and review steam-312780-crash.log, comparing behavior with and without PROTON_NO_ESYNC. The issue provides no source file or test entry point; done means opening the game and skipping the opening logos or cutscene without a crash.