Loading screens seem to take forever through proton. Apparently it does work according to protondb, but it takes up to 10-20 minutes to load into a level. I have beaten the game on windows and I am 100% certain levels don't take that long to load.
I also noticed some slight sound issues, like the sega logo sounding warbly, the Arkedo logo part not saying "Arkedo", and the main menu is dead silent. (Normally bubbling volcano noises should be playing in the background, but apparently protondb says there's no working music steam-205230.log
Just start a new game or continue and grab a bag of popcorn.
Quick Note : This is related to a Framerate Issue, it happend because Dev's "somehow" forced loading time to 12FPS in internal. On a normal Windows Environment with fast disk access its almost instantaneous, so the 12FPS trigger haven't have the time to start(its start at the end, you can see 12FPS for a fraction of seconds), but for an unknown reason, the Deck even with its Fast SSD struggle to 12FPS at loading times. Note that it doesn't happend in "The Island" Section of the Game.
Hope this could help VALVE to know where to look for.
That would explain why it takes so long to load. According to protondb, it seems to happen on Linux devices as well as the Steam deck, so it doesn't seem like a deck exclusive problem.
Also checking on the community hub, using protontricks to install dotnet40 seems to drop the loading time from 10 minutes to 5-10 seconds
In my case protontricks just doesn't work, it start the installation of dotnet40 but the installation process want to download some Windows KB but sleep at the download process.
Using Proton-GE and running winetricks to install xna40 and faudio fixes both the loading time issues and the lack of audio for me, works flawlessly after that. Apart from the intro videos sometimes play or not, but gameplay wise it works.
Using Proton-GE and running winetricks to install xna40 and faudio fixes both the loading time issues and the lack of audio for me, works flawlessly after that. Apart from the intro videos sometimes play or not, but gameplay wise it works.
This has send me through a rabbit hole (pun intended), but protontricks fails with the xna40/dot net install. Want to give some pointers?
I haven't tried protontricks for this. But I've just tested it again.
My steps were:
This launched, didn't play the intro videos but I loaded my game with full audio and music and no slow loading, only took about 2 seconds.
Installed Mono fron discover, changed the proton to 3.7 and the ran protontricks to install XNA&faudio, then changed back to the current proton after the game seems to work as it should. Thanks for the help
It seems the current has issues with the XNA-install.
This launched, didn't play the intro videos but I loaded my game with full audio and music and no slow loading, only took about 2 seconds.
This is also true with the fix I posted, the cutscenes that worked without xna/faudio do not work after them. So you have to choose between cutscenes with buggy audio with long load times and no background music, or playable game with fast load times with music but no cutscenes.
