SW: Episode 1- The Phantom Menace - missing load/pause screen backgrounds

[legluondunet]

When I launch "Star Wars Episode 1- The Phantom Menace", I obtain a black screen with this error message:

Software information

default settings, just install the game, put ddraw.dll in main game folder and override dll for Wine

System information

Manjaro 26.0.3 Anh-Linh
Kernel: x86_64 Linux 6.18.12-1-MANJARO
Proc: AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6600M
Drivers: Mesa 25.3.5
Resolution: 1920x1080
32 Go RAM
DE: Xfce4

Wine version: GE-Proton
D7VK version: 1.5

Log files

swtpm_d7vk.log

[WinterSnowfall]

Thank you for the report. I don't see anything too obvious in the logs. The game doesn't even reach a point where it tries to initialize D3D... so not sure what that error message is about.

I'll try and procure the game, as I actually played it back in the day, so it definitely has some nostalgia factor.

[WinterSnowfall]

The game works just fine here, see below:

The only minor issue I can see are some missing loading screen/pause screen backgrounds, but that's somewhat expected.

@legluondunet Make sure you have patch 1.1 applied, I guess.

[legluondunet]

At the start of the game, the room have toxic green fog. Is the fog green or white for you? I can obtain green fog (normal behavior) only with dgvoodoo2 (use geforce 4 virtual card with 126 memory in directx config panel).

[WinterSnowfall]

If you mean the fumes coming from the vents, as you can see in the above screenshot, it's rather white. I'll look into it, maybe we can figure out where the inaccuracy comes from.

[legluondunet]

on this screenshot you can see what this scene should look like with green fog:

source: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=84359

[legluondunet]

another thing, compare this two screenshots:

Look like DXVK rendered game with a lower color depth?

[WinterSnowfall]

Look like DXVK rendered game with a lower color depth?

We are doing what the game asks of us, which is create a R5G6B5 back buffer (16-bit). I don't see a way to pick 32-bit color anywhere.

I don't remember it having 32-bit color support either back in the day, which isn't uncommon for games of that era.

[legluondunet]

I understand but as you can see on this screenshots, DXVK does not render this game correctly:

[WinterSnowfall]

I understand but as you can see on this screenshots, DXVK does not render this game correctly.

What are you comparing it to? Native windows? The banding artifacts are specific to 16-bit. So I don't see how we are "rendering incorrectly", since the game is telling us to use 16-bit.

As for the fog part, based on the discussion you linked it appears to be a game bug that happened to work for a certain period of time due to lax validations. I'm not sure how feasible a fix is, but I'll keep it in mind.