Void Destroyer 2 (369530)

[Patola]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Void Destroyer 2
• Steam AppID of the game: 369530

System Information

• GPU: AMD VanGogh (Steam Deck)
• Driver/LLVM version: 22.0.2.150118.radeonsi_20220427-1
• Kernel version: 5.13.0-valve21.3-1-neptune
• Link to full system information report as Gist: (steam deck, current build)
• Proton version: 7.0-4

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 starts, but hangs on the very first screen

Reproduction

• Just start the game.
• Behaves the same in Proton-7.0-4 (default) or GE-Proton7-38
• It just hangs when the splash screen "Void Destroyer 2" appears. The next screen never does, it hangs there.

steam-369530.log

[Patola]

Doesn't work in Desktop Mode either. Same symptoms.

On my regular desktop Linux (with Arch), it runs normally, as it always did. Same proton (7.0-4)

[kisak-valve]

Hello @Patola, can you check if lines like these appear in a Proton log on your desktop:

High-level program SHIELDData/VP encountered an error during loading and is thus not supported.
OGRE EXCEPTION(6:FileNotFoundException): Cannot locate resource SHIELDData.hlsl in resource group General or any other group. in ResourceGroupManager::openResource at ..\..\..\..\OgreMain\src\OgreResourceGroupManager.cpp (line 756)
[...]
Compiler error: invalid parameters in distortionSHIELD.material(15): setting of constant failed

I see 7 exception: OGRE EXCEPTION(6:FileNotFoundException): lines in the attached Proton log which might be interesting if they don't happen on the working setup.

[Patola]

I see all of those:

[15:52] [6921] [patola@risadinha patola]% grep 'OGRE EXCEPTION' steam-369530-on-desktop.log   
OGRE EXCEPTION(6:FileNotFoundException): Cannot locate resource SHIELDData.hlsl in resource group General or any other group. in ResourceGroupManager::openResource at ..\..\..\..\OgreMain\src\OgreResourceGroupManager.cpp (line 756)
OGRE EXCEPTION(6:FileNotFoundException): Cannot locate resource SHIELDData.hlsl in resource group General or any other group. in ResourceGroupManager::openResource at ..\..\..\..\OgreMain\src\OgreResourceGroupManager.cpp (line 756)
OGRE EXCEPTION(6:FileNotFoundException): Cannot locate resource SHIELDData.hlsl in resource group General or any other group. in ResourceGroupManager::openResource at ..\..\..\..\OgreMain\src\OgreResourceGroupManager.cpp (line 756)
OGRE EXCEPTION(6:FileNotFoundException): Cannot locate resource SHIELDFinal.hlsl in resource group General or any other group. in ResourceGroupManager::openResource at ..\..\..\..\OgreMain\src\OgreResourceGroupManager.cpp (line 756)
OGRE EXCEPTION(6:FileNotFoundException): Cannot locate resource SHIELDFinal.hlsl in resource group General or any other group. in ResourceGroupManager::openResource at ..\..\..\..\OgreMain\src\OgreResourceGroupManager.cpp (line 756)
Error loading texture pu_smoke_02_128x128.png. Texture layer will be blank. Loading the texture failed with the following exception: OGRE EXCEPTION(6:FileNotFoundException): Cannot locate resource pu_smoke_02_128x128.png in resource group General or any other group. in ResourceGroupManager::openResource at ..\..\..\..\OgreMain\src\OgreResourceGroupManager.cpp (line 756)
Error loading texture pu_fire_01_64x64.png. Texture layer will be blank. Loading the texture failed with the following exception: OGRE EXCEPTION(6:FileNotFoundException): Cannot locate resource pu_fire_01_64x64.png in resource group General or any other group. in ResourceGroupManager::openResource at ..\..\..\..\OgreMain\src\OgreResourceGroupManager.cpp (line 756)
[15:53] [6922] [patola@risadinha patola]% grep 'Compiler error: invalid parameters' steam-369530-on-desktop.log
Compiler error: invalid parameters in distortionSHIELD.material(15): setting of constant failed
Compiler error: invalid parameters in distortionSHIELD.material(17): setting of constant failed
Compiler error: invalid parameters in distortionSHIELD.material(18): setting of constant failed
Compiler error: invalid parameters in distortionSHIELD.material(30): setting of constant failed
Compiler error: invalid parameters in distortionSHIELD.material(42): setting of constant failed
Compiler error: invalid parameters in GlowOutline.material(184): setting of constant failed
[15:53] [6923] [patola@risadinha patola]%

steam-369530-on-desktop.log

[Patola]

Not with both Proton Experimental and Proton 7.0-5 the game starts correctly. Takes sort of an extended time on the splash screen compared to the desktop but starts. Not sure what changed to make it work now, but I'm glad it did.