Anniversary Collection Arcade Classics (1018000)

[opal1974]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Arcade Classics Anniversary Collection
• Steam AppID of the game:1018000

System Information

• GPU: gtx 960
• Driver/LLVM version: 430.64
• Kernel version: 5.0.0-37
• Link to full system information report as Gist:
• Proton version: 4.11-11

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 installs, but then crashes after launch with a grey screen appearing just for a second or two.

Reproduction

Install, click play, happens everytime
steam-1018000.log

[flibitijibibo]

It's failing in CreateFX, but there aren't any warnings and the stack doesn't go into FAPOFX_CreateFX, which suggests the issue is likely in here: https://github.com/wine-mirror/wine/blob/master/dlls/xaudio2_7/xapofx.c#L55

[Firehawke]

Found a workaround; or rather, I figured out that an existing workaround for Metal Gear Solid 2/3 works with this too, when I realized that the crash was exactly the same type this game was having.

I took a copy of xaudio2_9.dll from Windows 11's system32 folder and put it into the game folder on my Steam Deck. I then changed the launch command to be...

PROTON_FORCE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE=1 WINDLLOVERRIDES="xaudio2_9=n" %command%

This was with no manual selection of the version of Proton being used (so no Hotfix or GE or otherwise; whatever default Steam is using right now)

I'm not convinced that the large address awareness is needed, but I don't have a keyboard handy to do more testing without that at the moment and a soft keyboard isn't ideal for this kind of testing.

Testing included loading the game once from Desktop Mode to confirm that launched (I was already there to make the necessary file copy and adjust the command line). Then going to Game Mode, I tested it by loading it up, then going into and playing two different games (Life Force (US) and Gradius 2 (Japanese)). I exited and started up the collection again and it loaded fine.

Hope this helps.