Thief: Deadly Shadows (6980)

[pprotonrep]

The game worked perfectly. I had problems (black screen) with the resolution on first run, but that seems to be a standard problem with most of the games in my rig (i fixed it by fiddling with the game's configuration steamapps/common/Thief Deadly Shadows\System\Default.ini).

• Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS (64 bit 4.15.0-33-generic)
• GeForce GTX 1070/PCIe/SSE2 (396.54)
• Proton Beta 3.7-4

System information from steam

[Kekun]

For what it's worth, I played the game just a few minutes and I couldn't detect a single flaw, I didn't even suffer the black screen @pprotonrep is talking aobut.

[kisak-valve]

Thief 3: Deadly Shadows (6980)

Issue transferred from https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/5837. @RickStanley posted on 2022-05-15T02:13:19:

Compatibility Report

• Thief 3: Deadly Shadows:
• Steam AppID: 6980:

System Information

• GPU: Geforce GTX 1050m
• Driver/LLVM version: nvidia 515.43.04
• Kernel version: 5.17.7
• Link to full system information report as Gist: https://gist.github.com/RickStanley/3e3b0fdebbfd8bc10ba93e035cb7fc48
• Proton version: 1652278199 experimental-7.0-20220511 and 6.3

I confirm:

• [ ] 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.

Log: steam-6980.log

Symptoms

I try to launch the game, but it just changes to "playing" and nothing happens. I'm able to stop the game from Steam.

Considerations

I saw that https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/586 tries to whitelist the game as playable, but I can't play at the moment.

Many report here: https://www.protondb.com/app/6980 that the game is playable.

I tried installing Sneaky Update but I found another issue, with the installer itself. When trying to execute the installer either with:

wine Setup_T3SneakyUpgrade_Full_1.1.10.exe

or

STEAM_COMPAT_CLIENT_INSTALL_PATH="$HOME/.steam/steam" STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH=/mnt/spare/SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdata/6980/ ~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Proton\ -\\ Experimental/proton run Setup_T3SneakyUpgrade_Full_1.1.10.exe

(as suggested here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2163910408), it always yields: "Thief 3 registry not found. Please reinstall the game.".

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@RickStanley commented on 2022-05-15T04:04:07:

Trying with Proton 3.16 I get this: steam-6980.log

Not sure what to make of this... Is wine trying to find/open t3.exe and T3Main.exe and can't find/open?

[kisak-valve]

Hello @RickStanley, blind guess, does using a GNOME/X session instead of a GNOME/wayland session have an effect?

[ghost]

@kisak-valve Same thing, just tried it.

This is the log with Xorg: steam-6980.log

Looks the same to me.

I've also increased the file-size writing limit, it was necessary. so that I could play some games, like Rune Classic (210950), not smoothly but with a better experience for sure.

➜  ~ ulimit -Hn         
1048576

[ghost]

@kisak-valve I tried other proton versions, under Xorg:

• 3.16: steam-6980-proton-3.16.log
• 4.11: steam-6980-proton-4.11.log
• 5.13: steam-6980-proton-5.13.log
• 7.0: steam-6980-proton-7.0.log
• experimental with gamemoderun prefix: steam-6980.log

I noticed that recent versions stop at:

1808.763:01d8:01dc:trace:loaddll:free_modref Unloaded module L"C:\\windows\\system32\\uxtheme.dll" : builtin
1808.766:01d8:01dc:fixme:ntdll:NtQuerySystemInformation info_class SYSTEM_PERFORMANCE_INFORMATION
1808.933:01d8:01dc:fixme:process:GetProcessWorkingSetSizeEx (FFFFFFFF,0032E858,0032E854,00000000): stub // ← here

I issued chmod -R 755 on Thief directory, nothing changed and restored the permissions.

[ghost]

I ran protontricks 6980 winecfg and added d3d8 (native), like so:

After copying 3d8, and other x86 dll files from dgVoodoo2, to the "System/ " folder of the game. Not sure if I've done it correctly. I had indifferent result.

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I think I'm almost finished with Thief 2, such a shame that I won't be able to play its sequel. :disappointed:

[ghost]

I think I'm almost finished with Thief 2, such a shame that I won't be able to play its sequel. :disappointed:

Scratch that. I bought T3 from GOG and, with some minor tweaks, the game works!

I'll continue helping track down this issue from proton, if necessary.

[ghost]

I have a hunch that Thief doesn't install DirectX upon first start, like other games do, because of this: https://old.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/u9844q/oblivion_is_verified_but_doesnt_freaking_work/

But I'm not sure how to check and install it.

[ghost]

Tried this: WINEPREFIX=/mnt/spare/SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdata/6980/ wine Setup_T3SneakyUpgrade_Full_1.1.10.exe, received the same message that "Thief wasn't in registry".

[ghost]

I can now play the game normally with Proton 7 and Experimental. The only problem that I encountered was a flickering mouse pointer, not sure if it's the game itself (known for some bugs) or a incompatibility, I have somewhat the same "flickering" when playing Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War, but other than this, it runs fine.

OS: EndeavourOS Linux x86_64 Kernel: 5.18.13-arch1-1 Packages: 1314 (pacman) Shell: zsh 5.9 Resolution: 1920x1080 DE: Plasma 5.25.3 WM: kwin Theme: [Plasma], Breeze [GTK2/3] CPU: Intel i5-7300HQ (4) @ 3.500GHz GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile GPU: Intel HD Graphics 630 Memory: 4868MiB / 15869MiB