Against the Storm (1336490)

[sTiKyt]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Against the Storm
• Steam AppID of the game: 1336490

System Information

• GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060
• Driver/LLVM version: Nvidia 525.85.05 (Proprietary) (But issue doesn't go away if I use nvidia-open instead)
• Kernel version: 6.1.8-arch1-1
• Link to full system information report as Gist: Full System Information
• Proton version: Proton Experimental (But issue exists on all of them)

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-1336490.log](https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/files/10528331/steam-1336490.log) ## Symptoms

This is what I get when I press "Play" button

Reproduction

Just run the game

Setting PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command% lets me launch the game, but graphics get broken sometimes and rarely game randomly crashes when certain buttons are pressed, it's relatively playable, but I'm trying to figure out why is it even broken for me in the first place

Additional info

May be worth mentioning that I can play other demanding games such as RDR2 or Cyberpunk 2077 on Ultra without any issues, so I have no idea what's going on

[kisak-valve]

Hello @sTiKyt, Proton uses DXVK to translate DirectX 11 to Vulkan, and that error dialog along with err:vulkan:__wine_create_vk_instance_with_callback Failed to create instance, res=-1 in your log is telling us that the Vulkan render path is failing to initialize.

This is most likely a video driver issue of some kind, which would show in the extended diagnostics section of your system information, but unfortunately, you have copied that before Steam was able to complete gathering it.

[sTiKyt]

Hello @sTiKyt, Proton uses DXVK to translate DirectX 11 to Vulkan, and that error dialog along with err:vulkan:__wine_create_vk_instance_with_callback Failed to create instance, res=-1 in your log is telling us that the Vulkan render path is failing to initialize.

This is most likely a video driver issue of some kind, which would show in the extended diagnostics section of your system information, but unfortunately, you have copied that before Steam was able to complete gathering it.

Sorry, didn't notice it wasn't done, i updated gist with extended section

[kisak-valve]

Thanks, we've seen AMDVLK interfere with other Vulkan drivers before. Can you try removing the lib32-amdvlk system package and see if that has an effect NVIDIA's 32 bit Vulkan render path?

[sTiKyt]

Thanks, we've seen AMDVLK interfere with other Vulkan drivers before. Can you try removing the lib32-amdvlk system package and see if that has an effect NVIDIA's 32 bit Vulkan render path?

Removing it fixed the game, and now it launches without any launch options

Edit: Stability issues in game are also gone

Edit 2: played some more and it never crashed, it's very stable and works great

[kisak-valve]

Against the Storm (1336490)

Issue transferred from https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/7368. @mothringer posted on 2023-12-22T16:39:26:

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Against the Storm
• Steam AppID of the game: 1336490

System Information

• GPU: RTX 3080
• Video driver version: Nvidia 535.146.02
• Kernel version: 6.1.68-gentoo-x86_64
• Link to full system information report as Gist: https://gist.github.com/mothringer/3153d5d446779a6e0f2369cfccb4c60c
• Proton version: Experimental, but happens on every version that I tried

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-1336490.log

Symptoms

Game hangs on last frame of publisher logo video at startup, with a stack overflow shown in the proton log.

Reproduction

Happens at every startup

[Malchior95]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Against the Storm
• Steam AppID of the game: 1336490

System Information

• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650
• Video driver version: Nvidia 550.78
• Kernel version: 6.8.0-35-generic
• Link to full system information report as Gist: https://gist.github.com/Malchior95/73a6311dae6165c115fc056dc2d31d89
• Proton version: Experimental, 9.0-2. Does not happen in 7.0-6

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.

Symptoms

Very poor game performance - running at ~10-13 FPS in Experimental and 9.0-2. In 7.0-6 runs at 40-45 FPS, so a regression must have occurred at some point

Log for 9.0-2 Log for 7.0-6

This is my first report, thank you for reviewing this.

[kisak-valve]

Hello @Malchior95, can you check two details.

First, if you run the game with Proton 9.0, then from a terminal run nvidia-smi, is the game listed in the processes section. This is to verify the game is running on your NVIDIA GPU.

Second, while you're seeing the low framerate, open NVIDIA's GUI settings application and look for a PCIe Bandwidth Utilization percentage readout. Low percentages are healthy, high percentages are a hint that VRAM maxed out and part of the render hot path got bumped to system ram.

[Malchior95]

Hello @kisak-valve, Running the game with Proton 9.0, nvidia-smi shows the process name (link). Nvidia GUI application shows PCIe Bandwidth Utilization as 2%. Thank you for looking into this.