Distant Worlds: Universe (261470)

[heregoesmarcel]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Distant Worlds: Universe
• Steam AppID of the game: 261470

System Information

• GPU: GTX 970
• Driver/LLVM version: nvidia 430.40-6
• Kernel version: 5.2
• Link to full system information report as Gist:
• Proton version: 4.11-7

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.

Symptoms

Initial launcher window won't start the game when clicking on the play button.

Game also won't run if the DistantWorlds.exe is renamed into autorun.exe.

Reproduction

1. Start the Game
2. Click on the launch button

steam-261470.log

[madewokherd]

Looks like a Mono bug: [00000045:] EXCEPTION handling: System.Runtime.InteropServices.MarshalDirectiveException: [MarshalAs] attribute required to marshal arrays to managed code.

[heregoesmarcel]

In addition to the issues mentioned above, this game also lists Internet Explorer and the Windows Media Player as dependencies and is therefore another reason for #449.