Flashing Water Bug in Proton

[Pejo]

I'm running the game on Linux through Proton-GE 8.6

So, game runs smoothly without issue, except for the fact that water is flashing bright colors and is visible through walls, making areas with water really unpleasant if not borderline unplayable at some points.

I've tried multiple versions of Proton already (GE Included), it runs smoothly even just on experimental.
Versions lower than 8 seem to crash after the first screen for some reason despite me setting up protontricks.
I've cleared all files to have a fresh install to try on everytime.

I've researched this but there's literally just one instance of this happening to someone, no documentation at all.

Has anybody else encountered this issue? If yes, is there a fix for this?

[Captain Pentium]

Which distro, and which video card or processor?

I can't say that this specific problem has happened to me, but I have had performance deficiencies in Debian until I backported recent drivers from Bookworm and no problems on Fedora.

[Pejo]

Originally posted by Facepalm Full O' Napalm:

Which distro, and which video card or processor?

I can't say that this specific problem has happened to me, but I have had performance deficiencies in Debian until I backported recent drivers from Bookworm and no problems on Fedora.

Arch, AMD Ryzen 7 3700X, Nvidia RTX 2070 Super.

Performance is perfect aside from this annoyance, smooth as butter, I've played a few more levels and figured only the water in the overworld (the one that can be swimmed in) is affected, which wouldn't be too much of an issue if it wasn't basically everywhere.

I've seen people with Nvidia cards say it plays just fine on ProtonDB so my current guess is that it's rather related to the fact I'm using Wayland.
I'm not very eager to get a whole Xorg desktop just for this single game to display right so unless someone has any more ideas on what I could do to fix this I think I'll just drop it altogether until Proton is improved for Wayland.
Such a shame, really, I heard this is one of the best Lego games but the flashing water covering half of the screen really ruins it.

EDIT: I've given up and got LEGO The Hobbit to work instead, works wonders. If you stumble upon this post feel free to necro it, still hoping for a solution to apply to other games that have this flashing problem.

[Pejo]

UPDATE: I've had this same issue with Lego Indiana Jones 2, except everything was flashing. However, I recently got the Steam version and it appears to be working perfectly fine after automatically installing some DirectX dependencies. I'm not quite sure what packages those were, but it works nontheless with the Steam version of the games. Well, problem sort of solved.

EDIT: Never ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mind, I switched distro and now it's not working even on Steam. God ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dammit.

[Ligma 2022]

I'm having the same problem on my steamdeck, and switching around some of the visual settings seems to help but nothing is fixing this. Maybe it has something to do with the way Proton handles the files for those textures?

[Pejo]

Originally posted by Ligma 2022:

I'm having the same problem on my steamdeck, and switching around some of the visual settings seems to help but nothing is fixing this. Maybe it has something to do with the way Proton handles the files for those textures?

No idea dude, this is so jank. For some reason it eventually decides to start working seemingly at random. Try to force DX9 to see if it triggers something but from my experience it just does everything on its own whenever it decides to.

[bio_endio]

Try ge proton 7-43 if you havent already

[Veles]

Get the same problem. Water is covered up by flashing colours that sit on top of any other objects (so you disappear when you run over a river). Also seemed to have the same problem with lava flows in the prologue but less noticeable as I guess as it looked like the lava flows were just white hot.

Everything else seems to be fine with it

[paccuardi03]

This was my white whale game. I hope someone finds a fix. I got as far as the dead marshes on the way to the black gate from Minas tirith. I thought I could beat the story despite the glitch, but the marshes are an insurmountable barrier and I haven’t figured out a way to cheese it. But the dead marshes level was perfectly fine for some reason.

[Hutch]

I followed this guide and it fixed it for me.

https://www.protondb.com/app/214510

In short, install protontricks / winetricks, and use it to install d3dx9_41 - I used Proton Experimental, Ubuntu 22.04, Wayland, AMD GPU. I'd already done a whole bunch of other settings which didn't work though so it might be a combo but this last install fixed it for me. I'm hoping this also works on Deck.

[d3dlyz]

Originally posted by Hutch:

I followed this guide and it fixed it for me.

https://www.protondb.com/app/214510

In short, install protontricks / winetricks, and use it to install d3dx9_41 - I used Proton Experimental, Ubuntu 22.04, Wayland, AMD GPU. I'd already done a whole bunch of other settings which didn't work though so it might be a combo but this last install fixed it for me. I'm hoping this also works on Deck.

This works on the steamdeck as of today.

[rswfire]

Originally posted by Hutch:

I followed this guide and it fixed it for me.

https://www.protondb.com/app/214510

In short, install protontricks / winetricks, and use it to install d3dx9_41 - I used Proton Experimental, Ubuntu 22.04, Wayland, AMD GPU. I'd already done a whole bunch of other settings which didn't work though so it might be a combo but this last install fixed it for me. I'm hoping this also works on Deck.

Flawless. Thank you so much!

[Dolphin]

The solution for me is to get Proton-GE. Fixes that water and lava, smooth as silk!

[DavidDenVise]

Originally posted by Hutch:

I followed this guide and it fixed it for me.

https://www.protondb.com/app/214510

In short, install protontricks / winetricks, and use it to install d3dx9_41 - I used Proton Experimental, Ubuntu 22.04, Wayland, AMD GPU. I'd already done a whole bunch of other settings which didn't work though so it might be a combo but this last install fixed it for me. I'm hoping this also works on Deck.

Tried this today, works perfectly

[KongsNutz]

Necro this page but yep worked here also!

[greesama17]

My game is very flashy. they should fix this bug asap its making me feel sick. i have it on steam deck