Chthon
Published
After much pain, finally got cutscenes fully working:
- Set compatiblity tool to Proton 5.0-10.
- Delete the wine prefix, then run the game once to force a clean 5.0-10 prefix. (Wine does not necessary downgrade prefixes cleanly.)
- flatpak run com.github.Matoking.protontricks 204450 win7 wmp9 (Click through the various prompts. The WMP GUI installer will claim to have failed, but it installed what you needed.)
(Perhaps something newer than 5.0-10 will work, but many recent versions of Proton blackscreen when starting the game after installing wmp9.)
This should make cutscenes completely functional. All of them (unlike Proton Experimental). With sound (unlike ProtonGE). Without audio crackle (unlike Proton Experimental).
To verify it's working: An Ubisoft splash screen should be the first thing you see when starting the program.
For configurations other than "old Proton + wmp9," cutscenes either don't play, play without audio, or play with crackling audio. "Old Proton (5.0-10) + wmp9" resolves the issue.
For configurations other than "old Proton + wmp9," cutscenes either don't play, play without audio, or play with crackling audio. "Old Proton (5.0-10) + wmp9" resolves the issue.
The cutscenes are important. Sure, it's a servicable first person shooter, but the real point of this game is as a work of narrative fiction that toys with what an interactive format enables the author to do with an unreliable narrator. The cutscenes are crucial to the narrative.
So, I'm kinda annoyed at the large number of incorrect reports on ProtonDB. No, it's not platinum; the cutscenes don't work out of the box. Most of the suggested tinker steps are either wrong, incompletely described, or incompletely fix the cutscenes.
Cutscenes only work in fullscreen, and only on Proton 7.0-6.
Mouse doesn't hide.
- Proton experimental -> won't start
- Proton 8.0-4 -> won't start
- The only configuration I've found where the cutscenes work is Proton 7.0-6 in fullscreen.
