Pajama Sam 4: Life Is Rough When You Lose Your Stuff! (292820)

[Hoff16]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Pajama Sam 4: Life Is Rough When You Lose Your Stuff!
• Steam AppID of the game: 292820

System Information

• GPU: Intel UHD Graphics (Tiger Lake GT1)
• Video driver version: Mesa 26.1.5
• Kernel version: 7.1.4-200.nobara.fc44.x86_64 (64-bit)
• Link to full system information report as Gist:
  • https://gist.github.com/Hoff16/311450d26167d665562af7529d66f2ed
• Proton version: Proton 11.0-1b / Proton Experimental (Released: 2026-07-28)

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-292820.log

Symptoms

1. Game flashes a black screen and then crashes

Reproduction

1. Press Play button in Steam
2. Status changes to Launching
3. Black screen appears for about 1 second and then closes

Notes:
This game uses the Yaga game engine which is fairly rare with 5 releases between 2002-2003.

Game is able to launch if the system has a CD-ROM drive installed, for those without one (including Steam Deck/Steam Machine) the game will crash. This issue also occurs on Windows.

Similar game with the same issue is here: #3281

Game has a community workaround in Proton-GE via protonfixes here:
https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-protonfixes/blob/master/gamefixes-steam/292820.py