The Suffering Fails to Launch

Hello! I've installed The Suffering from my GOG library that I've synced with Heroic. The game opens to a black or sometimes white screen and then stops responding with the only means of progressing forward being to force quit the app. I am running the Flatpak version of Heroic and I followed the common issues suggestion of reinstalling via the terminal and I got the message "Installation Complete". I am using only defaults, I haven't changed any wine or launcher settings.

Another thing to note; I also tried using the AIO patch from pcgamingwiki.com (linked here: https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/1229-the-suffering-series-aio-patch/) and followed all of its instructions including deleting all dsound files and I created a DLL override in winecfg for the dll dinput8.dll as native, builtin but I have the same issue as before.

I've attached my log file as requested. Please let me know if there is additional information that I forgot to include. Thank you Heroic team!

1268478205-lastPlay.log65.97KB

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The Suffering Series AiO Patch

This is All-in-One unofficial patch for The Suffering: Prison Is Hell and The Suffering: Ties That Bind, which provides all improvements and bugfixes for the games in one convenient package. Included patches/fixes: Common: Fixed the bug with game interpreting available hard disk space value incor...

worthy-azureOP•10/24/24, 12:52 AM

After much tinkering this evening I finally got both The Suffering and its sequel The Ties That Bind working through Heroic Games Launcher. Below are the steps I took to get both games working:

1 - Install The Suffering of The Suffering Ties That Bind but do not launch it
2 - Install the unofficial patches I linked in the original post following all of its instructions (make sure to delete dsound.dll files in the original Suffering root folder).
3 - Download and install d3d8to9 into the root of the game folder
4 - Use ProtonPlus to install the latest stable version of Wine which at the time I'm writing it 9.0.
5 - Enter the settings for the game and change the Wine version to the 9.0 version you installed with ProtonPlus.
6 - Cap the framerate to 60
7 - Enter WineCFG
8 - Go to Libraries
9 - Make sure both d3d8.dll and dinput8.dll are added and set to Native, Builtin
10 - Launch the game and a configuration window will pop up
11 - Set your preferred display resolution enable Shadows, disable Anti-Aliasing and 3D Sound Buffers
12 - You're ready to play the game!

You may notice that the camera is jerky and stuttery even though the framerate is consistent. It seems this game doesn't like the high polling rates of modern mice. If your mouse allows it, set the polling rate to 125hz and the camera should be perfectly smooth.

worthy-azureOP•10/24/24, 1:03 AM

One more thing! There is an issue with the main menu not playing videos and in fact the startup videos don't play either. This appears to only affect those videos. Ingame cutscenes appear to work. At least the intro cutscenes which is as far as I've tested so far.

I know these are niche games and they are no longer for sale on GOG but the first game is freeware and I highly recommend checking it out! Same goes for the sequel if you can get you hands on a copy. I hope this helps for anyone who wants to check these classics out!

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