Puzzle Kingdoms (23700)

[VS-X]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Puzzle Kingdoms
• Steam AppID of the game: 23700

System Information

• Steam Deck
• Steam OS 3.4.8
• Proton version: 8.0-2, 7.0-6, 4.11-13 sysinfo.txt

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. steam-23700.log

Symptoms

When run via Steam the game immediately closes after launch. In desktop mode there is a brief moment when a black rectangle of the game is visible. The game does successfully launch when using plain Wine 8.0 via Lutris. Changing runtime to Proton in Lutris makes the game not launch anymore.

Reproduction

• Install Puzzle Kingdoms on the Steam Deck
• Try to launch it

[kisak-valve]

Hello @VS-X, these look like some lines of interest from your log:

err:d3dcompiler:D3DCompile2 Failed to compile shader, vkd3d result -5.
err:d3dcompiler:D3DCompile2     <anonymous>:21:1: E5017: Aborting due to not yet implemented feature: Uniform initializer.
err:d3dcompiler:D3DCompile2     <anonymous>:22:1: E5017: Aborting due to not yet implemented feature: Uniform initializer.
err:d3dcompiler:D3DCompile2     <anonymous>:24:1: E5017: Aborting due to not yet implemented feature: Uniform initializer.
err:d3dcompiler:D3DCompile2     <anonymous>:33:1: E5000: syntax error, unexpected KW_SAMPLER_STATE
err:d3dcompiler:D3DCompile2 
warn:seh:OutputDebugStringA "ASSERT FAILED: error_buffer == NULL\n\tfailure in file: Assets/Shaders/Shared/null_postprocess.fx\n\n<anonymous>:21:1: E5017: Aborting due to not yet implemented feature: Uniform initializer.\n<anonymous>:22:1: E5017: Aborting due to not yet implemented feature: Uniform initializer.\n<anony"...