Retro City Rampage™ DX (204630)

[SecularSteve]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Retro City Rampage™ DX
• Steam AppID of the game: 204630

System Information

• GPU: 8 RDNA 2 CUs, 1.6GHz (1.6 TFlops FP32)
• Video driver version: Mesa 24.3.1
• Kernel version: 6.5.0-valve23-1-neptune-65-g385b5e207ae2 (64-bit)
• Link to full system information report as Gist
• Proton version: Default (9.0.4), Experimental, GE...

I confirm:

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

steam-204630.log

Symptoms

Proton version of RCR:DX+ stopped working on the Steam Deck, while the Native version runs with no issues.
Windows/Proton version is better maintained, with a few additional features. That's why I want to run it.
Keeps crashing with every version of Proton I try running it with, including GE.
It's a 32-bit app, just so you know in advance.
Also tried it with protontricks, still no luck.

Reproduction

Try running it through Proton instead of Natively on the Steam Deck, and it will instantly crash as soon as it launches.

[SecularSteve]

P.S.
Discussed over on Discord, apparently at the forefront of this is this issue in the logs:

XXXXX.XXX:XXXX:XXXX:err:steamclient:create_win_interface Don't recognize interface name: STEAMUSERSTATS_INTERFACE_VERSION013

I'm not sure exactly what it entails. I've checked my own log as well.

[waspennator]

I tried it out on my oled deck, on experimental or 9.0-4, the game silently crashes out without any warning after a few seconds after launch. If i try older versions, the game will toss up a popup saying that steam needs to be on in order for the game to work and the game will close as soon as I dismiss the popup