Cyanide & Hapinness - Freakpocalypse (869880)

[Klauswk]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Cyanide & Hapinness - Freakpocalypse
• Steam AppID of the game: 869880

System Information

• GPU: GTX 970TI
• Driver/LLVM version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 460.56
• Kernel version: 5.11.2-1-default
• Proton version: 5.0-10

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-869880.log

Symptoms

The game launches but keep forever on the loading screen.

Reproduction

Open the game, forever loading screen

[kisak-valve]

Hello @Klauswk, it looks like this game would benefit from support for Media Foundation maturing. It may be interesting to try the game with Proton Experimental and share a log.

[Klauswk]

Thank you for the quick response @kisak-valve, indeed using the experimental version launch the game perfect.

[Zlopez]

@kisak-valve I tried to run it with the Proton Experimental. Here is the log.
steam-869880.log

It's sad that the movies are not playing, you can only see the placeholder. Hopefully the log will help :-)

[Klauswk]

I can confirm @Zlopez, the movies are not playing.

[georgedorn]

FWIW, The latest GloriousEggroll release (Proton-6.1-GE-2) runs the game fine, with movies. It does have a sound glitch at the end of each movie as it switches back to the game, but it's tolerable.

[Zlopez]

@georgedorn Do you know if this will be merged to upstream Proton?

[georgedorn]

@Zlopez The proton devs are free to use anything they want to from the project, but there's no one patch I can point to that explains why GE can display in-game video where Proton cannot. Nobody made a "fix Freakpocalypse" patch - the latest changeset in GE was from before Freakpocalypse was released.

My three guesses as to why it works in GE: something in a later version of wine fixed it, something about switching to faudio fixed it, or some patch to support video in some other game happened to accidentally also fix it.

[Zlopez]

I tried it today with Proton GE 6.1-GE-2 and I still have the placeholder image instead of intro movie.

[Zlopez]

The cutscenes are now working with Proton 5.13-6 after 1.08 update, which replaced the mp4 videos with webm.