Operation Flashpoint: Red River (44340)

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Operation Flashpoint Red River
• Steam AppID of the game: 44340

System Information

• GPU: 6800XT
• Driver/LLVM version: Mesa 21.1.5 LLVM
• Kernel version: 5.12.16-xanmod1-MANJARO
• Link to full system information report as [Gist]: 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.

Proton Log: steam-44340.log

Symptoms/Problem

With protontricks gfw package, it should show up and you create offline account. Don't use custom xlive dlls!
With correct xlive.dll and xlive.ini (bulletstorm), skip GWL login. > Game logs in after a few seconds (try alt-tab out and back in if needed), main menu text is missing but you can hear interactions in background.

NOTE: Pressing enter (interrupting) during local-login will cause a CTD (white rectangle appears moments before crash).

Reproduction

protontricks 44340 -q gfw needed. Newest proton versions may not work; try with E and F sync disabled!

I tried with dotnet40 installed and not (requires proton5.0 due to dotnet install issues in all newer protons). I do not believe dotnet is required. Corefonts do not fix the missing text issue.

Notes

This game is labelled as never working on protondb, but I do believe this can work if we figure out why interface text doesn't render. Most people reporting are not aware of the issue with GWL and the xlive dll/ini requirement/workaround.

Start by reviewing the linked steam-44340.log and reproducing the report with protontricks 44340 -q gfw, using the noted Proton and sync settings. Investigate why the game’s main-menu text does not render without custom xlive DLLs, and verify that the interface displays correctly without the local-login crash.