Yume Nikki has a Platinum rating on ProtonDB but I’m having some trouble trying to get it to work.

It’s starts just fine and seems to run, but a window flashes for a second and then nothing happens. The only reason I know it’s running is because Steam says so.

I tried changing the launch options to use gamescope and it seemed to work, but there was noticable lag and it seemed to show the previous frame, like a ghost image or something. It made the text almost impossible to read.

I’m running the Steam Flatpak on Arch Linux with Gnome 44. Any help is appreciated. TIA.

  • @entropicdriftEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    Have you tried running it under X11 instead of Wayland? Some games get messed up by Wayland

    • @eldritch_lich@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      I tried it a few hours after I made this post but for some reason, Gnome on Xorg kept crashing and going back to GDM as soon as I moved the cursor. By that point it was getting late and I stopped debugging. I have no idea how to debug that anyway.

          • @havokdj@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2•1 year ago

            Damn, I am stumped then, it works fine for me on steam.

            You could try installing it in lutris perhaps? The game doesn’t have any achievements or enhancements on steam so you wouldn’t be missing out on any extra features besides possibly cloud save (though backing up wine prefixes is amazing, I copy fl studio to a flash drive to sync with my various computers).

            • @eldritch_lich@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
              1•1 year ago

              Alright, I’ll try that. I wanted to use Steam because then I can use my controller with Steam input but I guess it’s fine.

                • @eldritch_lich@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
                  1•1 year ago

                  Okay this is extremely weird. No matter which version of wine/proton I pick in Lutris, I get the exact same issue where the window doesn’t show up but the game is running. The only difference with Steam here is that I can hear the game audio.

                  I am almost certain this is an issue because of Wayland but I can’t seem to figure out why Gnome on Xorg keeps crashing for me.

                  • @havokdj@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    2•1 year ago

                    This one is more of a bandaid than anything but have you tried using gamescope?

                    Also, for testing purposes you could see if you are able to run another X window manager and see if it is a problem with X rather than Wayland. dwm is very small and in the AUR, if you install that and xorg-xinit, you can jump over to a getty and create .xinitrc in your home folder with the line exec dwm and run startx. You’ll need dmenu as well to run things and that can also be found in the AUR.