Any fixes for the white smoke bug in linux/proton?

Chaussettes · 07-13-23, 11:31 PM

I have fixed the white smoke bug myself by installing d9vk component via winetricks. This appears to fix all smoke and it all appears like normal once again.

You can do this by using `winetricks --gui` in a terminal and selecting:

Select the default wine prefix
Install a Windows dll or component
Scroll down to d9vk, tick the box and press ok

The protontricks package in your distribution's package repo can be used to do this for the steam version of SHIII.

However, one issue that I now have is all 2D art except the main menu is now rendered black. The career room and crew management screens all now have a black background. I'm certain a fix exists as I've done some testing through Lutris that fixed this issue and also fixed the white smoke issue.

Chaussettes · 07-14-23, 04:27 PM

Thinking I'm going to give up on trying to fix the issue and just play it as-is. While d9vk fixes the smoke issue it introduces new ones with the black background issue on the crew management and mission prep screens. Every other game I try installing dxvk on also runs better in general but always has some horrible side-effect that makes it unusable. The white smoke isn't game breaking, just a minor inconvenience that I can work with at least.

Hooston · 07-15-23, 08:30 AM

The Vulkan drivers seem to be more trouble than they are worth in this case. There's nothing in SH3 that needs the latest shaders. Have you tried a rollback to d3d9.dll? I'm not sure if proton will be happy with that or if you will just end up using Vulkan anyway.

Chaussettes · 07-15-23, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Hooston

The Vulkan drivers seem to be more trouble than they are worth in this case. There's nothing in SH3 that needs the latest shaders. Have you tried a rollback to d3d9.dll? I'm not sure if proton will be happy with that or if you will just end up using Vulkan anyway.

I've been using a wineprefix outside of steam to test the game, so I can just remake the prefix to get back to regular d3d9. But yeah vulkan seemed to fix the smoke but the other issues it caused are too much.

07-13-23, 11:31 PM	#1
Chaussettes Swabbie Join Date: Jul 2023 Posts: 13 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	I have fixed the white smoke bug myself by installing d9vk component via winetricks. This appears to fix all smoke and it all appears like normal once again. You can do this by using `winetricks --gui` in a terminal and selecting: Select the default wine prefix Install a Windows dll or component Scroll down to d9vk, tick the box and press ok The protontricks package in your distribution's package repo can be used to do this for the steam version of SHIII. However, one issue that I now have is all 2D art except the main menu is now rendered black. The career room and crew management screens all now have a black background. I'm certain a fix exists as I've done some testing through Lutris that fixed this issue and also fixed the white smoke issue.

07-15-23, 08:30 AM	#3
Hooston 中国水兵 Join Date: Jun 2020 Posts: 283 Downloads: 16 Uploads: 0	Rollback? The Vulkan drivers seem to be more trouble than they are worth in this case. There's nothing in SH3 that needs the latest shaders. Have you tried a rollback to d3d9.dll? I'm not sure if proton will be happy with that or if you will just end up using Vulkan anyway.

07-14-23, 04:27 PM	#2
Chaussettes Swabbie Join Date: Jul 2023 Posts: 13 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Thinking I'm going to give up on trying to fix the issue and just play it as-is. While d9vk fixes the smoke issue it introduces new ones with the black background issue on the crew management and mission prep screens. Every other game I try installing dxvk on also runs better in general but always has some horrible side-effect that makes it unusable. The white smoke isn't game breaking, just a minor inconvenience that I can work with at least.