[D3D9] Hellsinker: Crashing on windows, possible text issue on Linux?

[waspennator]

Hellsinkers seems to freeze for a few seconds in the tutorial when presenting the text boxes (And also doesn't seem to display text inside correctly), unsure if it's cause of Dxvk and shader caching or not, so reporting it here just to be safe. I tried seeing if it also happens on Windows and it crashes as soon as I try launching it. I also tried Wined3d on deck and that just results in the entire screen going black with the game still going on.

On Steam Deck

On Windows

If you use Windows, please check the following page: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/wiki/Windows

Software information

Hellsinker

System information

• GPU: AMD Van Gogh for Steam Deck, GTX 1650 for the Windows Laptop
• Driver: Mesa 22.0.2 for Steam Deck, Nvidia 516.94 for Windows Laptop
• Wine version: 7.0 on Steam Deck
• DXVK version: 1.10.3

Apitrace file(s)

hs_dx9build.zip

For instructions on how to use apitrace, see: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/wiki/Using-Apitrace

Log files

• d3d9.log: hs_dx9build_d3d9.log (Windows log, I can upload the linux log if necessary too.)
• d3d11.log:
• dxgi.log:

[K0bin]

I don't really understand the issue. Can you post a screenshot (Steam + X) of what it looks like and another one made on a Windows PC of what it should look like?

[waspennator]

On deck, the text for the tutorial looks like this (And it freezes for a couple of seconds whenever a text box appears)

Its supposed to look like this on windows.

I also cant get DXVK to work on windows for this game to see if the issue also happens on there too.

[Blisto91]

Would you be able to post a proton log? :slightly_smiling_face:

[waspennator]

Here's the proton log I posted on valves github. steam-1067720.log

[Blisto91]

Thanks. Just wanted to make sure it wasn't something like wine d3dx9 or d3dcompiler messing up. But the game doesn't load those

[waspennator]

I tried the wined3d method too, but that just causes the entire screen to go black but everything keeps running.

[K0bin]

Looks fine when replaying the apitrace.

Can you try it with Proton Experimental (or DXVK master)?

[waspennator]

Tested it with Experimental on deck and the issue with invisible tutorial text and the game freezing for a few seconds when loading text boxes still happens

[waspennator]

Retested again with latest Experimental proton, stutters don't seem to be as long now on deck, but the instruction test still doesn't seem to be showing up.

Unsure if this is a dxvk issue or a proton issue.

[Blisto91]

I tried quickly on Windows but didn't see any immediate issues. This is just with default settings except i upped window size

Screenshot

[waspennator]

Very strange, if it's working on windows with dxvk, then I guess that rules it to be more of a proton issue, just makes me curious why it's not showing the text on deck, unless it's a text locale issue or something

[Blisto91]

Will poke on Linux again later

[Blisto91]

I was able to run the game with wined3d on Experimental BE and the text issue is also present there. Not sure what the cause is.

[waspennator]

I tried it out on my oled and while it still seems to be happening, I also tried changing the language through the launcher to see if it would effect anything, switching it to Japanese text showed no language issues on the launcher or on the title screen, but the tutorial still doesn't seem to render text at all.