The Testament of Sherlock Holmes (appid 205650)

[Patola]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: The Testament of Sherlock Holmes
• Steam AppID of the game: 205650

System Information

• GPU: RX 7900 XTX
• Video driver version: Mesa 24.0.3-2
• Kernel version: 6.8.1-273-tkg-eevdf
• Link to full system information report as Gist: https://gist.github.com/Patola/8ddabc7b0d0419af5f77d4e69c50fc96 and https://gist.github.com/Patola/5571720ffe575b067758d79e6f5be760
• Proton version: 8.0-5

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 doesn't start

Reproduction

Press play. Game doesn't start.

Additional notes

At first time, I looked at the proton log and noticed it was trying to call physx calls. So after that I used protontricks by protontricks 205650 physix and the nvidia physx installation dialog appeared and completed successfully. But even then it would just try to start and bail out, not even opening a window or something in that fashion. So I am attaching two proton logs:

• one before installing physx
• one after installing physx

Also tried restarting steam. Other games start normally but this one doesn't. steam-205650-after-physx.log steam-205650-before-physx.log

[Patola]

I did the same operations (installed physx) on a laptop that's almost identical but has a NVIDIA RTX 3070 with driver 550.67, and it worked. I'm uploading this log as "steam-205650-nvidia.log". Please let me know what can be done to run the game properly on an AMD. steam-205650-nvidia.log

Not sure that influences, but the laptop is running KDE 6 on Xorg, and the AMD PC is running it on KDE 6 on Wayland.

[Patola]

Sorry, in that NVIDIA laptop the default proton was proton 7. I removed the prefix, reinstalled physx and ran the game again as proton 8, so the log should be comparable now. steam-205650-nvidia-proton8.log

[Patola]

Ok, I left Wayland and started the game in Xorg and it worked. In the end, when under wayland, I found out that using gamescope with the resolution of my monitor (3440x1440) was enough to make the game work. Launch parameters: gamescope -w 3440 -h 1440 %command%