Bionic Commando Rearmed (21680)

[Uradamus]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Bionic Commando Rearmed
• Steam AppID of the game: 21680

System Information

• GPU: GTX 750 Ti
• Driver/LLVM version: NVIDIA 390.87
• Kernel version: 4.18.9-92
• Link to full system information report as Gist: https://gist.github.com/Uradamus/24522b291a76473842d7259cc026375a
• Proton version: 3.7-7 Beta

I confirm:

• [x] that I haven't found an existing compatibility report for this game.
• [x] that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available.

steam-21680.log (Please note, the above log file was generated after I had already followed the corrective steps listed below to get the game running.)

Symptoms

The game fails to launch due to missing Physx library.

Reproduction

Just try to launch the game with its vanilla prefix. You'll get the popup error window telling you it couldn't find the Physx library.

Current Solution

• Install WineTricks and grab a copy of ProtonTricks and install it following the directions provided on that project's GitHub page.
• Then just simply run the following command (assuming you installed the game in the default Steam library): protontricks 21680 physx
• If you installed the game to a different directory, you need to prepend the following to the above command and make sure to include the necessary space between the end of the dir path and the start of the protontricks bit above (keep in mind that you want the dir that contains the alternate steamapps dir, not the game's install dir nor it's compatdata dir): STEAM_DIR="/path/to/dir"
• Once you've done this correctly, the game runs flawlessly. I've been playing it for 2-3 hours now over multiple sessions with no issues at all. So I would suggest that Valve finds a way to include the physx installation as part of the installer for this game, as this game can easily be platinum status once that is handled automatically for end users.

[rcgamer29]

What I did was download the legacy physx and rename it to the one in the redistributable folder and delete the original one. Then install the game with steam normally.

[shoober420]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Bionic Commando Rearmed
• Steam AppID of the game: https://steamdb.info/app/21680/

System Information

• GPU: GTX 760
• Driver/LLVM version: NVIDIA 440.44
• Kernel version: 5.4.15
• https://github.com/shoober420/linux-scripts/blob/main/home/shoober420/sysinfonvidia
• Proton version: 4.11-12

LOG: steam-21680.log

Symptoms

Crash at startup about PhysX

[hubyhuby]

Same on Unbuntu 18.04 up to date + proton 5.X

Crash in application version: 1.1.0.12714

This game requires an up to date version of Ageia PhysX and associated DLLs. Please install latest PhysX runtime.

SYSTEM: CPU : Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-8145U CPU @ 2.10GHz (2 cores) DirectX : 9.0c Memory : 9725 MB Physics : normal Renderer : DX9 threaded Sound : ()

[SeongGino]

Note: PhysX is still needed, but game currently crashes without any visible windows showing in current Proton Experimental.

A workaround would be using GE-Proton7-20 (last working version, as 7-21 and above exhibits same crashes), but the sound has some subtle but noticeable artifacting rendered as a small audible buzzing at times.

[nmiell]

In addition to manually installing PhysX, you also need to change the launch command to taskset -c 0-14 %command%

[ranplayer]

I can't make this game to boot with Proton 6, 7, 8.0-5, 9.0-2 or Experimental (2024/06/28). I've tried the suggested fixes above (installing physx with winetricks and WINE_CPU_TOPOLOGY=4), but nothing works.

Proton log: steam-21680.tar.gz

Specs

• OS: Arch
• Kernel: 6.6.35
• GPU: RX 6700 XT (Mesa 24.1.2)
• CPU: Ryzen 7 5700G (8c/16t)