Retrovirus (227800)

[waspennator]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Retrovirus
• Steam AppID of the game: 227800

System Information

• 512 GB Steam Deck
• Proton version: Experimental

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 boots up, shows the game logo, then silently crashes. Recommend unsupported on deck.
steam-227800.log

Reproduction

Try and start the game.

[madewokherd]

This looks relevant:

[00000184:] EXCEPTION handling: System.Exception: Call FNA3D_PrepareWindowAttributes first!
[00000184:] EXCEPTION handling: System.InvalidOperationException: Call FNA3D_PrepareWindowAttributes first!
[00000184:] EXCEPTION handling: Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics.NoSuitableGraphicsDeviceException: Call FNA3D_PrepareWindowAttributes first!

[waspennator]

Same behavior on latest proton Experimental on my oled le deck

[waspennator]

Still the same behavior as of proton Experimental with wine 9.0

[madewokherd]

Apparently, the game creates a GraphicsDevice object before a Game object, and FNA isn't set up to handle this. Tried hacking around that but couldn't get it to work.

Also tried WINE_MONO_OVERRIDES=Microsoft.Xna.Framework.*,Gac=y %command% which loads XNA instead of FNA. This worked in one of my attempts, but usually also fails. Race condition in the game maybe?