King's Bounty: Armored Princess crash after changing "Objects" (graphical setting) to "Low" (3170)

[mikkovedru]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: King's Bounty: Armored Princess
• Steam AppID of the game: 3170

System Information

Distro: Linux Mint 19.2 Tina
Kernel: 5.3.0-24-generic
GPU Driver: NVIDIA 440.44
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650
CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4.00GHz
Proton: 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.

steam-3170.log

Symptoms

King's Bounty: Armored Princess crashes after changing "Objects" (graphical setting) to "Low". Error message is strange:

Application aborted!
C:\work\skyfallen\tbm\BMRender\rmode.cpp(4045): DirectX call failed: 256, 256, code=0x80004001 (-2147467263)

The relevant information:

1. The Whitelist issue King's Bounty: The Legend, Crossworlds (25900 63910) #1073.
2. Issue King's Bounty: Armored Princess (3170) #1580.
3. https://www.protondb.com/app/3170

• The only report with a similar sounding problem is found here: King's Bounty: Armored Princess (3170) #1580 (comment)
• Multiple reports about the same low fps (10) problem that I also encountered.
• has information about the crashes in the Tower in the first island as well as crashes in some Mines/Dungeons. I haven't encountered such problem (yet?).

Reproduction

1. Run the game
2. Go to Options
3. Change Objects setting to Low
4. Press Apply

[kisak-valve]

Hello @mikkovedru, we're using one issue report per unofficially supported game title, so I've gone ahead and transferred this issue report to #1580 (comment).

[mikkovedru]

@kisak-valve. Thank you!