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Title: Everspace 2 in Wine
Shmerl 1 May 2022
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I tried the early access version of Everspace 2 in Wine + vkd3d-proton (I have GOG version as a backer).

It works decently during regular gameplay, but cutscenes videos don't work. Did anyone manage to work around that?

Last edited by Shmerl on 1 May 2022 at 4:18 am UTC
Shmerl 1 May 2022
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I tried the suggestion to use media foundation overrides:

https://github.com/z0z0z/mf-install

But that only helped audio, not video.
Shmerl 1 May 2022
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I saw somewhere even GE developer saying not to use proton-ge for non Steam games for some reasons. What kind of patches are missing in Wine that are needed then?

Last edited by Shmerl on 1 May 2022 at 1:07 pm UTC
MiZoG 1 May 2022
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[Wine-GE github page](https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/wine-ge-custom) mentions that Wine-GE contains "additional media foundation patches for better video playback support" not included in Valve's proton though Everspace 2 is not listed as supported. If I am not mistaken, Valve's direction is replacing problematic video files with re-encoded videos in newer proton builds.
tuubi 1 May 2022
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Quoting: ShmerlI saw somewhere even GE developer saying not to use proton-ge for non Steam games for some reasons. What kind of patches are missing in Wine that are needed then?
If he did, he probably didn't mean the builds he specifically puts out for use in Lutris or other non-Steam platforms. Might be worth trying the game with the latest [wine-ge-proton binaries](https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/wine-ge-custom/releases/) and, if it works, looking for relevant patches [in the repository](https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/wine-ge-custom/tree/master/patches).

Last edited by tuubi on 1 May 2022 at 1:43 pm UTC
Shmerl 1 May 2022
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May be it's this one: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/wine-ge-custom/blob/master/patches/proton/30-proton-mediafoundation_dllreg.patch

Last edited by Shmerl on 1 May 2022 at 3:10 pm UTC
tuubi 1 May 2022
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Quoting: ShmerlMay be it's this one: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/wine-ge-custom/blob/master/patches/proton/30-proton-mediafoundation_dllreg.patch
Or one of the mfplat (Media Foundation Platform) patches right after that one.
Shmerl 1 May 2022
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That's some massive patch.

https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/wine-ge-custom/blob/master/patches/proton/31-proton-mfplat-patches-valve.patch

I wonder why they can't just use ffmpeg to begin with instead of gstreamer and avoid this kind of stuff.

Last edited by Shmerl on 1 May 2022 at 5:56 pm UTC
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