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Update Rise of Nations Extended Edition #52

Closed LukeShortCloud closed 4 months ago

LukeShortCloud commented 6 months ago

to include DirectPlay for more reliable multiplayer connections.

LukeShortCloud commented 6 months ago

I have not personally tested this yet but I have seen many reports of this helping. The latest report being from 1 month ago.

https://www.protondb.com/app/287450

On vanilla Proton, game matches will randomly disconnect and then crash about 1 hour into the game. That is a problem when games can last many hours. My last match took 2.5 hours.

Luckily, this game has a unique multiplayer save feature. My friends and I have been using that as a short-term workaround to save and reload games when they crash (the person whose game did not crash is still able to save).

Root-Core commented 6 months ago

I have not personally tested this yet

I'm not sure this fix is necessary. Others say that directmusic and sound=alsa are sufficient. It would be nice if someone could give feedback on the current fix.

LukeShortCloud commented 6 months ago

Most people are not playing multiplayer. directmusic and sound=alsa only affects being about to hear the music and sound affects throughout the game.

There are 2 reports in the GitHub Issue and 15 reports in the ProtonDB page that directplay is needed for online play. I am able to play online with no workarounds but me and my other friends on Linux constantly run into random connection issues. I believe DirectPlay will fix that.

I will test this out with my friends next time we play online and report back (by applying protontricks directplay to everyone's game).

LukeShortCloud commented 4 months ago

I wanted to give a quick update on this. I have not forgotten about this. It just takes an extremely long time to reproduce this issue.

I'll summarize by saying I've tested a wide range of vanilla Proton, GE-Proton, with protonfixes, without protonfixes, with Windows or Linux as hosts, with Windows or Linux as clients, etc. What I can say is that Proton 9 (GE or otherwise) by itself runs a lot more reliably. However, I believe the multiplayer connectivity issue only specifically exists between a Linux host and Linux clients.

The directmusic workaround is also still needed with Proton 9. Despite there being major progress in DirectMusic for the stable Wine and Proton 9.0 release, without the workaround, the audio either (1) does not play or (2) it plays two songs at the same time.

LukeShortCloud commented 4 months ago

After playing a bunch more games, I can 100% confirm that directplay helps Linux clients when connecting to Linux hosts.

Without this change, a timeout of 10 seconds appears at some random point. It always counts down to 0 and the client gets disconnected. With this change, no timeouts appear. With the workaround, the game "lags" to compensate for any connection issues which is better than completely kicking a player out after a few hours of gameplay!

I'll go ahead and simply the patch based on some of the original feedback.