Castlevania Advance Collection (1552550)

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Castlevania Advance Collection
• Steam AppID of the game: 1552550

System Information

• GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 with Max-Q Design
• Driver/LLVM version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 470.63.01
• Kernel version: 5.11.0-36-generic
• Link to full system information report as Gist: Gist
• Proton version: Experimental

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-1552550.log

Symptoms

I've tested the game on both Windows and Linux. Windows works fine, but I have run into problems when using Linux via steam play with proton experimental. I can start the game OK, but when selecting any game in the collection I receive the following error messages in a loop; !noticemsg__confirm_nospace_storage & !noticemsg_confirm_save_failed, causing all of the games to be unplayable. This also happens when changing the games language and initially happened once when I first started the game. My storage space is fine so I know this is in error, at the time of writing I have 18.7 GiB free as reported via dolphin file explorer. All my other games work fine via proton, so I'm guessing its having problems since it just came out and is unoptimized for it? I did also try every other proton version available and it either ran with the following errors as described above or just plain didn't start.

Reproduction

Method 1 - Start the game and make a selection
Method 2 - Start the game and change to another language
Method 3 - May happen when running the game for the first time

Start by reproducing the reported failure with Proton Experimental, then inspect the attached steam-1552550.log alongside the three listed reproduction methods. The issue is resolved when Castlevania Advance Collection can select games and change language without the storage or save-failed errors.