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Can't see anything
The game starts up and responds to events, but in both fullscreen and windowed, it stays blank and I can't see anything. It doesn't matter which Proton version I try from Steam Play. Since I installed Steam with Flatpak, I cannot trivially run Protontricks. I might try to install Steam from Bottles instead just for this one game.
First of all
When I started up Sonic CD for the first time, all I got was a blank screen. Pure black, couldn't see anything going on -- even tho sound worked and the game responded to my input respectively.
but
As pointed out by a bunch of people, you need to do a thing or two in Protontricks to be able to get it up and running properly. However, I installed Steam from Flatpak, which is fancy and neat and easy, but isn't so obvious to apply hacks on.
Luckily enough, there's a solution!
Protontricks has, in fact, been packaged for Flatpak! This means that you can apply settings onto Proton just as you would for any other Steam setup. Here's the Github repo: https://github.com/flathub/com.github.Matoking.protontricks
Alright, here's the instructions
All you have to do is open a terminal, copy-paste these commands and follow along:
flatpak install flathub com.github.Matoking.protontricks
flatpak run com.github.Matoking.protontricks 200940 d3dcompiler_43 d3dx9_43
If you want to be able to run Protontricks in the future, you can do something like this:
echo "alias protontricks='flatpak run com.github.Matoking.protontricks'" >> ~/.bashrc
Steps to prepare Sonic 4 ep1 if you're on Flatpak
If you haven't installed Protontricks for Flatpak yet, copy and paste into a terminal as follows:
flatpak install flathub com.github.Matoking.protontricks
Then, all you have to do is this:
wget -O ~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata/202530/pfx/drive_c/java.exe https://javadl.oracle.com/webapps/download/AutoDL?BundleId=245477_4d5417147a92418ea8b615e228bb6935
flatpak run com.github.Matoking.protontricks -c "wine C:\java.exe /s" 202530
Completely unable to run the game
This is one of those Unity games that refuses to start no matter what. Only a blank screen, at most an extra loading window pops up. The system detects the game isn't responding and asks if you want to kill the process.
