Danilo Pianini
Published
Without a working controller, playing is painful.
No way to get a Steam Controller work as a controller. It works (but not great) with mouse + keyboard emulation.
The game does not work in native mode, it's a huge bummer.
The game is not perfect, but it can be enjoyed.
Sometimes cartoons overlap and get rendered badly
When the game finishes, asks to save as pdf. If agreed, the game freezes.
Runs, but I could not login with my account, and fonts appear to be very low quality.
Installed the game, the first menu shows up, launching fails with error: https://ibb.co/D470m4S
protontricks 35140 mdx d3dx9 d3dcompiler_43 win10 is required for the game to start
Mouse remains visible in game, needs to be moved outside of the visible area manually.
Install protontricks (Arch Linux users can do so via AUR), then run:
protontricks 35140 mdx d3dx9 d3dcompiler_43 win10
Next, fix the game launch command:
Steam -> Library -> Right Click on Game -> Properties -> SET LAUNCH OPTIONS -> PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 PROTON_USE_D9VK=1 %command% -> OK
The game does not close at exit and needs to get manually killed. I suggest to transform the launcher executables into symlinks to ShippingPC-BmGame.exe.
Tested the first minutes of single player. With default settings, the game menu are sluggish and textures in game are loaded at very low resolution. Applying the noesync fix makes the game run like native.
Runs like native with PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 %command%
Without such option, some of the in-game textures are rendered at very low resolution. Moreover, saving without such option takes a longer time.
Everything maxed graphically, but DX10 option, not available.
With default settings, menus are sluggish, and the game does not load textures correctly. Both issues get fixed with the disable esync fix, and the game seems to run well. All settings maxed.
Crashed abruptly while playing the introductory section with default settings.
PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 %command% makes the game work perfectly.
Works everything out of the box, no tweak required. Tested in about 5-6 hours of Internet multiplayer with friends.
Enable VSync and fullscreen, then live happily
VSync must be enabled or the graphics glitches
Performance issues in windowed mode
Windowed mode is very sluggish
Works flawlessly out of the box. The strange AA8x mode does not work (systems resets graphics to default), but 16x mode does. Some options can't be set to Ultra (greyed out). On my rig, performance was good (59.6 fps average in the benchmark, 1080p, all maxed out, AA 16x, vsync on).
Cutscenes are necessary for the game. I also tried to apply the fixes suggested in other posts, no luck.
Missing cutscenes
Missing cutscenes
Works like native, except that for some reason some resolutions were not accepted.
Setting the resolution to FullHD was impossible. I could set 4K, but then the text was so little that it became unreadable.
Without force feedback, it is impossible to play decently with a steering wheel, which is the way this game is meant to be played
No force feedback, unplayable with a steering wheel
Just launched, and it just works. I played for a while, no issue encountered.
In my experience, it's not distinguishable from a native game.
I could not zoom out. Performance was extremely poor on high settings until I enabled BOTH anisotropic filtering and antialiasing at maximum. Then it began to run smoothly.
The biggest problem is still that I could not completely zoom out on the main map.
I installed it before Proton, I believe this should be marked as native.
The game installs correctly, but the launcher crashes immediately after launch.
Cannot work with 4K screens, no way. Tested all Proton versions and all the suggestions from users
Even after setting the resolution to 1920,1080,60 in the 'steamapps/compatdata/9350/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/Local Settings/Application Data/Gas Powered Games/SupremeCommander/Game.prefs' file, the game was impossible to play. With Proton 4, the rendering is broken, but clicking on stuff (which is invisible) actually pops up things (I could see changes in the quarter of the screen that's rendered). Other proton versions, up to the current experimental, render the whole screen correctly, but clicking on the rendered menu does nothing. Launched with esync disabled. Introductory movies run at less than 1fps.
There is a setup phase, which is not ideal. But once setup, the game works very well, at least in single player.
It must be executed at the first run with PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 PROTON_NO_FSYNC=1 %command% /windowed 1024 768 at the first run. Once inside, you must create a profile, set the correct resolution, close the game, and remove /windowed 1024 768 from the command line.
The game works well after that. There is no UI scaling unfortunately, so playing at 4K is a bit of an issue, but I guess that's a game's fault.
The /windowed 1024 768 option must be provided at first run, and still it won't make the game windowed, it would just override the default graphical settings.
Game runs at 0.3 fps, making it very hard to even navigate the menu
Well if your screen resolution is low enough, then it might be fun. But I guess it's not really a Proton issue.
The game is super small on a 4K screen, and resolution can't be changed -- there is no option to do so, so it's possible that it's just the game being old.
