Parking Dash (37350)

[HonkingGoose]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Parking Dash
• Steam AppID of the game: 37350

System Information

• GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 Ti
• Driver/LLVM version: Nvidia 410.73
• Kernel version: 4.15.0-38-generic
• Link to full system information report as Gist.
• Proton version: 3.16-4 Beta
• Proton log: steam-37350.log

I confirm:

• [x] that I haven't found an existing compatibility report for this game.
• [x] that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available.

Symptoms

Game won't start, no splash screen, no sound/music, no menu screen. It switches to a black full screen for a split second, and then crashes to desktop.

Reproduction

1. Install game from within Steam client.
2. Click Play in the Steam client.
3. Game won't start.

Discussion

This is a old 2D game, so I was expecting it to work, but it doesn't. The game is not sold on the Steam store anymore.

There are a lot of similar "Dash" time-management games by this developer PlayFirst, the most popular of which was the Diner Dash series.

Because those other Dash games look and feel so similar to each other, I guess that those games share a common engine/framework. So maybe fixing Parking Dash helps those other games too.

References:

I checked for related games in the "Dash"-series on ProtonDB, but there are no reports filed yet.

The only Dash games from PlayFirst that are still sold on the Steam store are:

• Hotel Dash™ Suite Success™ (49000)
• Wedding Dash® 2: Rings Around the World (37280)
• Diner Dash:® Hometown Hero™ (37240)
• Fitness Dash™ (37340)
• Cooking Dash® (37220)
• Diaper Dash® (37230)

[HonkingGoose]

System Information

• GPU: GTX 780 Ti
• Driver/LLVM version: Nvidia 418.56
• Kernel version: 4.18.0-16-generic
• Link to full system information report as Gist:
• Proton version: proton-4.2-1

Symptoms

Well there's improvement, with Proton 4.2-1 the game actually starts. And you can play in windowed mode. But there are a lot of new issues:

• When in full screen mode: mouse lags horribly and the mouse stops responding at all when starting story mode in full-screen.
• Switching from full-screen to windowed mode results in a white-out window. The game music still plays, but the graphics don't come back.

Reproduction for laggy mouse in full-screen and mouse stops responding:

1. Start game.
2. Ensure game is in full-screen mode.
3. Notice mouse lags.
4. Start story mode.
5. Mouse doesn't respond at all anymore.
6. Alt+TAB -> ALT+F4 -> mouse responds again, use game menu to quit.

steam-37350.log Proton log is for the laggy mouse in full-screen and mouse stop responding.

Reproduction for white-out window on switch full-screen -> window.

1. Start game in full-screen mode.
2. Go to options.
3. Select windowed mode and acknowledge.
4. Screen resizes to window, but window is fully white, with no graphics. Game music keeps playing.
5. Force quit game trough the taskbar.

Proton log for whiteout on switch fullscreen -> window: steam-37350_whiteout.log

Reproduction for normal game-play in windowed mode:

1. Start game in windowed mode.
2. Select story mode.
3. Skip comics.
4. Play first level to completion.
5. Quit game.

steam-37350_windowed_first_level_plus_tutorial.log