El Shaddai ASCENSION OF THE METATRON HD Remaster (1581040)

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: El Shaddai ASCENSION OF THE METATRON HD Remaster
• Steam AppID of the game: 1581040

System Information

• GPU: RX 6600
• Driver/LLVM version: Mesa 21.2.5 / LLVM 12.0.1
• Kernel version: 5.16
• Link to full system information report as Gist
• Proton version: 7.0-2

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

Symptoms

Checking the "screen setting" box in the launcher, then pressing start produces the following error in a window:

Dialog creation error
Error in NiRendererTabController::InitDialog()
Unable to save class pointer using
SetWindowLongPtr().
Windows reports error 0x57a:
Invalid cursor handle.

Thankfully I can still launch and play the game without this, albeit locked at a low 4:3 resolution.

steam-1581040.log

Reproduction

This happens every time I attempt to open the screen settings. Redownloading the game did not solve the issue, and switching to an earlier Proton build may have put the installscript into a loop (I'm not quite certain about that one). One ProtonDB user (https://www.protondb.com/users/1270404502) reported the same issue eight months ago while using Proton 6.3-6, so it seems this isn't entirely unique to me.

Reproduce the failure by opening the game's launcher, checking “screen setting,” and pressing Start under Proton 7.0-2; inspect the attached steam-1581040.log and system report for the invalid cursor handle. Done means the screen settings dialog opens successfully and the game can be configured beyond the low 4:3 resolution.