Psychonauts 2 (607080)

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Psychonauts 2
• Steam AppID of the game: 607080

System Information

• GPU: RX 480 8GB
• Driver/LLVM version: mesa 21.2.1-1 / llvm 12.0.1-3
• Kernel version: 5.13.13-arch1-1
• Link to full system information report as Gist: https://gist.github.com/kode54/3ff952f39b407d6f806a6779838f5335
• Proton version: 6.3-1

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-607080.log

Symptoms

Media Foundation FMV content does not play. Game sometimes crashes switching languages or reloading from the menu after leaving a game to the main menu again, but this last one may be a symptom on Windows machines as well.

Reproduction

Start game with any official version of Proton, including Experimental.

Notes

The Media Foundation FMVs play just fine under the latest Proton-GE, 6.15 as of this writing, but that is unofficial. Proton-GE also has some graphical glitches in the game rendering that are not present in official Proton, so that's an issue I'll file with Glorious Eggroll, since it affects his runtime, but not the official.

Start by reviewing steam-607080.log and reproducing Psychonauts 2 with official Proton, including the Media Foundation FMV and language-switch or reload paths. Compare the behavior with Proton-GE 6.15 and determine whether the FMV failure and crashes can be reproduced consistently; done means the affected behavior is resolved or clearly characterized in official Proton.