Flashback (961620)

[gfbett]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Flashback
• Steam AppID of the game: 961620

System Information

• GPU: Intel(R) HD Graphics 620
• Driver/LLVM version: 3.0 Mesa 19.2.1
• Kernel version: 5.3.0-22-generic
• Link to full system information report as Gist:https://gist.github.com/gfbett/4f54131263c7412db4d77ddef2eee470
• Proton version: 4.11-9
  steam-961620.log

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

The game starts showing a configuration window, but after selecting start only a black screen is shown.

Reproduction

Just run the game

[kisak-valve]

Looks like this game would benefit from support for Media Foundation maturing.

[AwesamLinux]

System Information

• GPU: RX 5700 ITX
• GPU Driver: Mesa 20.1.0-devel (git-69628ab 2020-03-03 bionic-oibaf-ppa)
• Kernel version: 5.3.18-050318-lowlatency
• Distro version: 19.3 Tricia (64 bit) (Cinnamon)
• Proton version: 5.0-3

Compatibility Report

Game launches to a black screen, tried installing mf-plat (tried also the cab 32bit and 64bit variants) but it made no difference. I also tried limiting core/thread usage.

Another game for issue #1464
Log mentions mfplat.dll and codecs are:
MPEG-4, AVC + AAC

media_info.txt
steam-961620.log
system_info.txt

[thaewrapt]

Playable with current Proton Experimental (video placeholders on start where the above-mentioned black screen issue had appeared, then everything is just smooth).