ValveSoftware / ValveSoftware/Proton

Life is Strange Remastered (1265920)

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Game compatibility - Unofficial Regression XAudio2
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Description

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: Life is Strange Remastered
  • Steam AppID of the game: 1265920

System Information

  • GPU: AMD Radeon RX 5700
  • Driver/LLVM version: Mesa 23.0.0-git
  • Kernel version: 5.17.5-301.fsync.fc36.x86_64
  • Proton Version: proton-7.0-2 and experimental-bleeding-edge

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.

Symptoms

Game gets stuck on a black screen at the ending of Episode 2, and then a window pops up saying "Fatal Error!".

Same also occurs with Proton experimental-bleeding-edge and GE-Proton7-17

steam-1265920-experimental-bleeding-edge.log
steam-1265920-proton-7.0-2.log
system_info.txt

Save game file (continue Episode 2, it should continue at the cut-scene where after it crashes)
SaveGames.zip
It goes into /SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdata/1265920/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Local/LiS/Saved/SaveGames/

Reproduction

Play the game up until the ending of Episode 2

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reproducing the Episode 2 ending with the provided SaveGames.zip, then inspect steam-1265920-experimental-bleeding-edge.log, steam-1265920-proton-7.0-2.log, and system_info.txt. Compare behavior across the reported Proton versions and use the attached save to verify whether the black screen and Fatal Error no longer occur.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
linux
Domain
operating-systems
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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