Metaphor: ReFantazio - Prologue Demo (3130330)

[Tyfuzzle]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Metaphor: ReFantazio (prologue demo specifically)
• Steam AppID of the game: 3130330

System Information

• GPU: Nvidia RTX 2070 Super
• Video driver version: nvidia 555.58.02
• Kernel version: 6.10.11
• Link to full system information report as Gist: https://gist.github.com/Tyfuzzle/7489595cbc53a3672095a4b3f064dda2
• Proton version: 9.0-3, experimental

I confirm:

• [Y] that I haven't found an existing compatibility report for this game.
• [Y] that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available.

Symptoms

Demo freezes on startup. Sometimes this error appears:

Other times, it freezes with just a blank screen:

It appears no first time installation things happen for the demo (cannot confirm this as I don't own the full game, this is just the demo).

Proton log:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LsfvkRH2cERVBBHdkyX2q--4foJ2JEr4/view?usp=sharing

Reproduction

Install the Metaphor: ReFantazio Prologue Demo (not the full game) from the store page.

Choose proton version 9.0-3 or experimental

Click PLAY

[Filip-Anicic]

Same thing happens to me with the full release (2679460). The only difference is that the Wine Runtime C++ Library window only shows the title bar and the content of the window is just white. Also my log file is 2.1 GB, where it repeats the same stack error you had at line 2886:

376.749:0124:0128:warn:seh:dwarf_virtual_unwind backtrace: 0x7f848962f38a: Z:\mnt\33b318d1-df3e-4a98-bb5b-8c3568af18b2\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\METAPHOR\METAPHOR.exe + 0x138a (_start + 0x2a).
376.749:0124:0128:trace:unwind:execute_cfa_instructions 7f848962f360: DW_CFA_def_cfa %rsp, 8
376.749:0124:0128:trace:unwind:execute_cfa_instructions 7f848962f360: DW_CFA_offset %rip, -8
376.749:0124:0128:trace:unwind:execute_cfa_instructions 7f848962f360: DW_CFA_undefined %rip
376.749:0124:0128:trace:unwind:dwarf_virtual_unwind fde 0x7f8489630140 len 14 personality (nil) lsda (nil) code 7f848962f360-7f848962f38b
376.749:0124:0128:trace:unwind:dwarf_virtual_unwind next function rip=00007f848962f38a
376.749:0124:0128:trace:unwind:dwarf_virtual_unwind   rax=0000000000000000 rbx=0000000000000000 rcx=000055556fec3bb0 rdx=0000000000000000
376.749:0124:0128:trace:unwind:dwarf_virtual_unwind   rsi=00000000c00864bf rdi=0000000000000061 rbp=0000000000000000 rsp=00007ffd52f9a378
376.749:0124:0128:trace:unwind:dwarf_virtual_unwind    r8=0000000000000001  r9=0000000000000001 r10=0000000000000000 r11=0000000000000246
376.749:0124:0128:trace:unwind:dwarf_virtual_unwind   r12=00007f848962f360 r13=00007ffd52f9a380 r14=0000000000000000 r15=0000000000000000
376.749:0124:0128:trace:unwind:dwarf_virtual_unwind function 7f848962f38a base 0x7f848962f360 cie 0x7f8489630128 len 14 id 0 version 1 aug 'zR' code_align 1 data_align -8 retaddr %rip

I've seen that most people who reported on ProtonDB had it working for them, but I also saw one person have the same error as the both of us.

Computer Information:

Manufacturer: LENOVO
Model: LNVNB161216
Form Factor: Laptop
CPU Brand: AMD Ryzen 5 5600H with Radeon Graphics
Operating System Version:
"Fedora Linux 40 (Workstation Edition)" (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 6.10.12-200.fc40.x86_64
X Server Release: 12401003
X Window Manager: KWin
Steam Runtime Version: steam-runtime_0.20240806.97925
Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU/PCIe/SSE2
Driver Version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 555.58.02
OpenGL Version: 4.6
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 143 Hz
VendorID: 0x10de
DeviceID: 0x2560
Revision Not Detected
Number of Monitors: 2
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
Primary Display Resolution: 2560 x 1440
Primary VRAM: 6144 MB
RAM: 31939 Mb

[Filip-Anicic]

Found the solution. Updating to a newer version of the Nvidia GPU drivers fixes the issue. With Fedora, I followed this guide to get the beta drivers version 560 and the is able to launch

[chaorace]

On my machine I've encountered two different issues with the demo:

1. Steam Input is nonfunctional. I don't think there's any in-game fallback even if you disable Steam Input/Steam Overlay, so I'm unable to play the game with controllers. I can confirm that the Steam Overlay itself is functional and that inputs register properly in the steam client input tester. (there seems to be at least one other user on ProtonDB with the same issue)
2. Extremely poor performance in 3D scenes, even on lowest possible settings. Menus are buttery smooth, but FPS instantly tanks to single-digits during gameplay. The shader cache does not seem to be the culprit because the issue persists even after clearing it and redownloading.

Steam System Information Summary

Computer Information:
Manufacturer: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
Model: PRIME B450M-A
Form Factor: Desktop
No Touch Input Detected

Processor Information:
CPU Vendor: AuthenticAMD
CPU Brand: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 6-Core Processor
CPU Family: 0x17
CPU Model: 0x71
CPU Stepping: 0x0
CPU Type: 0x0
Speed: 4000 MHz
12 logical processors
6 physical processors
Hyper-threading: Supported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Supported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported
AES: Supported
AVX: Supported
AVX2: Supported
AVX512F: Unsupported
AVX512PF: Unsupported
AVX512ER: Unsupported
AVX512CD: Unsupported
AVX512VNNI: Unsupported
SHA: Supported
CMPXCHG16B: Supported
LAHF/SAHF: Supported
PrefetchW: Unsupported
BMI1: Supported
BMI2: Supported
F16C: Supported
FMA: Supported

Operating System Version:
"NixOS 24.11 (Vicuna)" (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 6.6.50
X Server Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server Release: 12401002
X Window Manager: Hyprland v0.43.0
Steam Runtime Version: steam-runtime_0.20211102.0

Client Information:
Version: 1729015347
Browser GPU Acceleration Status: Enabled
Browser Canvas: Enabled
Browser Canvas out-of-process rasterization: Enabled
Browser Direct Rendering Display Compositor: Disabled
Browser Compositing: Enabled
Browser Multiple Raster Threads: Enabled
Browser OpenGL: Enabled
Browser Rasterization: Enabled
Browser Raw Draw: Disabled
Browser Skia Graphite: Disabled
Browser Video Decode: Enabled
Browser Video Encode: Disabled
Browser Vulkan: Disabled
Browser WebGL: Enabled
Browser WebGL2: Enabled
Browser WebGPU: Disabled
Browser WebNN: Disabled

Video Card:
Driver: AMD AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT (radeonsi, navi23, LLVM 18.1.8, DRM 3.54, 6.6.50)
Driver Version: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 24.2.2
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 164 Hz
VendorID: 0x1002
DeviceID: 0x73ef
Revision Not Detected
Number of Monitors: 1
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
Primary Display Resolution: 3440 x 1440
Desktop Resolution: 3440 x 1440
Primary Display Size: 31.50" x 13.39" (34.21" diag), 80.0cm x 34.0cm (86.9cm diag)
Primary VRAM: 8192 MB

Sound card:
Audio device: ATI R6xx HDMI

Memory:
RAM: 15901 Mb

VR Hardware:
VR Headset: None detected

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
LANG: en_US.UTF-8
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 1907201 MB
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 1722353 MB

[orbea]

I get the same audio crackling (Underruns) using alsa-lib-1.2.13 in Metaphor: ReFantazio that I do in Tales of Symphonia (#822 (comment)) and Ys VIII (#3820 (comment)).

ALSA lib pcm.c:8545:(snd_pcm_recover) underrun occurred

steam-2679460.log

Anything that can be done to resolve this would be appreciated.