Bleak Faith: Forsaken (1173220)

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Bleak Faith: Forsaken
• Steam AppID of the game: 1173220

System Information

• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER
• Driver/LLVM version: NVIDIA 525.60.11
• Kernel version: 6.2.5-arch1-1
• Link to full system information report as Gist:
• Proton version: 1677511134 experimental-7.0-20230227

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-1173220.log

Symptoms

Game runs great in-game but will freeze when opening an in-game menu, e.g. pause menu.

Reproduction

Start the game through steam. Once in-game, press escape to open the pause menu, game freezes.

Fix

As seen in the log file, there was just a missing av decoding g-streamer plugin:

winegstreamer error: decodebin0: Your GStreamer installation is missing a plug-in.
winegstreamer error: decodebin0: ../src-gst_base/gst/playback/gstdecodebin2.c(4719): gst_decode_bin_expose ()     : /GstBin:bin0/GstDecodeBin:decodebin0:
no suitable plugins found:
Couldn't set avdec_h264-0 to PAUSEDCouldn't set avdec_valve_h264-0 to PAUSED

On arch linux I fixed this by installing gst-libav, but ideally an end-user shouldn't have to figure this out and the gst av libs should be a dependency of proton or something.

Start with the attached steam-1173220.log and the reported GStreamer errors, then investigate how Proton dependencies are handled for Arch Linux. Done means determining whether gst-libav can be declared or supplied as a Proton dependency and confirming that opening the in-game pause menu no longer freezes the game.