4D53082D - Gears of War 2

[agrecalypse]

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Tested on https://github.com/xenia-project/xenia/commit/256a4c402cf4852af24b8aec164af5449a57bf10

Issues:

• Used --ignore_undefined_externs=true
• Loads past initial Epic Games screen & crashes immediately after Microsoft Game Studios screen

Log:

Log

Labels:

state-crash

[theoldsport]

Issues:

Main menu now renders 3D. The game freezes immediately afterward

Screenshot(s):

[OpenGL]

Labels:

state-menus

[stride21]

Tested on xenia-project/xenia@ba7dc6b

Issues:

Plays intro videos and then has a black screen with main menu music playing but unable to do anything while on it.

Screenshot(s):

Log:

xenia.zip

[Drive251]

need to change game ID to 4D53082D as D8024D53 for 1st Gears of War

[forcecde]

Vulkan Direct12

Continue Black screen

[illusion0001]

Not yet because UnrealEngine games uses an extended memory range that's not available in Xenia yet. 0xE0000000 - 0xFFFFFFFF

[illusion0001]

the titleID for this issue is incorrect. it should be 4D53082D

[Gliniak]

Tested on: https://github.com/xenia-project/xenia/commit/39490f3c3a79e9c2e1acad37609108b4c14bd459

Overview:

Quite playable, saving works. Every n-th frame there is a bump of frametime to around 150ms

Log:

xenia.zip

Screenshots:

[lokeshsharmaj]

Finished the game. It's clearly playable but only issue is black shadows which can come anywhere. Finished it without any crash.

[tuxytux]

With the 28/04/2021 build ( the big render target redesign), stuttering issues have been solved. With vsync off, i get an almost smooth 60fps. Also significant framrate boost. Before this build i was having 20-30 fps on a 3060 Ti. Whats left is the black texture issue on faces and sometimes in the world, depending on which chapter you are in. In some chapters it is barely noticeable. Can this be solved? I should also add that i have experienced about 8 crashes and i'm at the end of act 4.

[GorkiYX4]

Play on master version. Everything is worked, but some water collusions is missing or broken, and shadows are not displayed correctly on characters. But game is finished, i have maybe 4 or 5 crashes, fps stable on 30. sometimes the temperature of the processor up to 90-95 degrees Celsius in act 3. My PC conf: Intel core-i5 11400 Nvidia gtx 1080 8gb 32gb ram

[dante3732]

There are places in these game where the game crashes constantly, but it also crashes randomly. Driver give TDR error. It happened beginning with jun 23 2020 build and still not fixed. There are no crashes on previous builds. Windows 11 Pro x64 21H2 AMD Ryzen 5 3600 4.2 Ghz MSI Radeon VEGA 64 8 Gb HBM2 22.5.1 2x8 Gb DDR4 3200

[bomabomaboma]

https://github.com/xenia-project/xenia/commit/37579d3bf0cd18633f8342a3c1e2d6b41fd3ed83 fixed rendering of all simulated fluid surfaces in Unreal Engine 3 titles (vertex animations w/ tessellated grids vs the cheaper translucencies used in most other UE3 games).

[jfish871]

I am happy to report that I was able to play through the game from start to completion. The emulator only crashed 4 times due to it loosing the graphics device (some internal error on relating to the graphics pipeline). The only bug is that random polygons are solid black.

[wolfinston85]

Hey, managed to complete the game from start to finish without any serious issues, just some exploding Reavers near the end and some screen tearing despite Vsync being enabled in the emu config in previous Canary versions, not present in the latest, more info in the video description. Uploaded some gameplay from one of the latest missions of the game. Thanks to the dev team as always.

https://youtu.be/PTlnTTn16wo

[arcues198750]

Games shadow graphics look to be out of place/failing to render properly. Otherwise smooth frame rate.

[SloaJay]

Games shadow graphics look to be out of place/failing to render properly. Otherwise smooth frame rate.

You can fix this shadowy issue somehow through patches in Xenia Canary. There is fix for this.

[Voidwalker57]

got a problem, when i start the game menu works fine however once I hit new game to start campaign my game is stuck on blackscreen. on steamdeck havent used vulken yet

[gagantous]

Hi, i tried to play this game on Linux based system (steamOS) and i got this glitch on all environment.

I used GPU Vulkan instead of d3d12 because the game always freeze and hang the entire OS whenever someone shoot any kind of bullet. Here is some gameplay with that flash environment. https://youtu.be/EneZjItoWb0?si=oijI0Y5an0msmqX9

[dante3732]

https://youtu.be/EneZjItoWb0?si=oijI0Y5an0msmqX9

It normal, vulkan not completed.

[gagantous]

https://youtu.be/EneZjItoWb0?si=oijI0Y5an0msmqX9

It normal, vulkan not completed.

I see, so what happen when i tried d3d12 version, it always freeze the entire system. When i tried on my laptop (Windows OS) its run pretty well without that flashy thing

[brianx87]

On SteamOS the game was directly loading into the gameplay and bypassing the cutscenes, loaded to black screen with only gunfire and character armour lights visible. Somehow I have managed to fix it by changing to vulkan and back to dx12, the only other thing I did was delete the game profile in xenia's content folder and disabled all the patches I had enabled as those where causing the game to freeze on load, then reenabled them. Somehow it works now, same can not be said for 3 and Judgement that have the same loading issue.

[SloaJay]

On canary ver 5ca173cd4 with shadow fix from patches. And on ROV settings. Everything works fine. There is some issue with alpha effects. But they could be on real HW? Don't have original x-box to compare thou.

[YungYaboi]

On SteamOS the game was directly loading into the gameplay and bypassing the cutscenes, loaded to black screen with only gunfire and character armour lights visible. Somehow I have managed to fix it by changing to vulkan and back to dx12, the only other thing I did was delete the game profile in xenia's content folder and disabled all the patches I had enabled as those where causing the game to freeze on load, then reenabled them. Somehow it works now, same can not be said for 3 and Judgement that have the same loading issue.

I'm having the same issue, but your fix didn't work. I'm using d3d12 on linux & the only thing that loads is the training grounds. Everything else gives "Error initializing network layer." For some reason, it still creates a save file after this error pops up while trying to begin a solo campaign. Launching that save file does load, but it has the exact issues you described of it not rendering the level with only gunfire and armour lights being visible.

The network error was closed 5 years ago without a fix, possibly due to that OP using Vulkan, but this issue happens when I try either Vulkan or d3d12.

I've tried deleting the shaders, the content folder for the game, with patches on & off, and with Vulkan as well as d3d12. Nothing worked.

[Leniptic]

I'm having the same issue, but your fix didn't work. I'm using d3d12 on linux & the only thing that loads is the training grounds. Everything else gives "Error initializing network layer." For some reason, it still creates a save file after this error pops up while trying to begin a solo campaign. Launching that save file does load, but it has the exact issues you described of it not rendering the level with only gunfire and armour lights being visible.

The network error was closed 5 years ago without a fix, possibly due to that OP using Vulkan, but this issue happens when I try either Vulkan or d3d12.

I've tried deleting the shaders, the content folder for the game, with patches on & off, and with Vulkan as well as d3d12. Nothing worked.

Same issue. On Linux the game runs flawlessly in the training grounds, but I can't load into anywhere else. I always get "Error initializing network layer". Changing to Vulkan, D3D12 and messing with the license mask in the config didn't help.

Edit: I haven't tried this myself, but perhaps running Xenia Netplay and using this section would fix the issue

[icemanx7]

I'm having the same issue, but your fix didn't work. I'm using d3d12 on linux & the only thing that loads is the training grounds. Everything else gives "Error initializing network layer." For some reason, it still creates a save file after this error pops up while trying to begin a solo campaign. Launching that save file does load, but it has the exact issues you described of it not rendering the level with only gunfire and armour lights being visible. The network error was closed 5 years ago without a fix, possibly due to that OP using Vulkan, but this issue happens when I try either Vulkan or d3d12. I've tried deleting the shaders, the content folder for the game, with patches on & off, and with Vulkan as well as d3d12. Nothing worked.

Same issue. On Linux the game runs flawlessly in the training grounds, but I can't load into anywhere else. I always get "Error initializing network layer". Changing to Vulkan, D3D12 and messing with the license mask in the config didn't help.

Edit: I haven't tried this myself, but perhaps running Xenia Netplay and using this section would fix the issue

For anyone looking to get this working, I tried the fix for Linux on Xenia netplay and it worked. It removed the error message Error initializing network layer. which I suspect causing the black screen and only seeing bullet fire and armor lights.

[Leniptic]

For anyone looking to get this working, I tried the fix for Linux on Xenia netplay and it worked. It removed the error message Error initializing network layer. which I suspect causing the black screen and only seeing bullet fire and armor lights.

Glad to know that fixes it, thanks for letting me know. Didn't have time to test it myself, so I was hoping someone else might give it a shot.

[Mcmunz]

I'm having the same issue, but your fix didn't work. I'm using d3d12 on linux & the only thing that loads is the training grounds. Everything else gives "Error initializing network layer." For some reason, it still creates a save file after this error pops up while trying to begin a solo campaign. Launching that save file does load, but it has the exact issues you described of it not rendering the level with only gunfire and armour lights being visible. The network error was closed 5 years ago without a fix, possibly due to that OP using Vulkan, but this issue happens when I try either Vulkan or d3d12. I've tried deleting the shaders, the content folder for the game, with patches on & off, and with Vulkan as well as d3d12. Nothing worked.

Same issue. On Linux the game runs flawlessly in the training grounds, but I can't load into anywhere else. I always get "Error initializing network layer". Changing to Vulkan, D3D12 and messing with the license mask in the config didn't help. Edit: I haven't tried this myself, but perhaps running Xenia Netplay and using this section would fix the issue

For anyone looking to get this working, I tried the fix for Linux on Xenia netplay and it worked. It removed the error message Error initializing network layer. which I suspect causing the black screen and only seeing bullet fire and armor lights.

Hi im trying to get this workinh on the Steam Deck Did this fix everything for you ?

[azaelbr]

Black Shading fix don't work for 2k or 4k resolution... I disabled Ambient Occlusion Too. Someone have a new fix for this?

Rig 7800x3d 4070ti 32gb Kingston Renegade

[databoose]

Getting Error initializing network layer. dialog before starting campaign, and i just spawn in a dark abyss with only gunfire, armor lighting and ingame UI showing.

Same issue as others have posted.

Running xenia on linux through wine, cannot confirm if xenia netplay works for this game as the netplay fork just crashes on startup for me.

[Leniptic]

Getting Error initializing network layer. dialog before starting campaign, and i just spawn in a dark abyss with only gunfire, armor lighting and ingame UI showing.

Same issue as others have posted.

Running xenia on linux through wine, cannot confirm if xenia netplay works for this game as the netplay fork just crashes on startup for me.

Perhaps try the fix for failing to bind ports listed for Xenia Netplay regardless. I don't think they're Netplay-specific instructions, just that you should in theory only run into them when trying to play multiplayer/live games (but it seems Gears of War 2 is making some network call at boot). You can also try a different wine version. I've always had success with Bottles.

[Mcmunz]

Getting Error initializing network layer. dialog before starting campaign, and i just spawn in a dark abyss with only gunfire, armor lighting and ingame UI showing. Same issue as others have posted. Running xenia on linux through wine, cannot confirm if xenia netplay works for this game as the netplay fork just crashes on startup for me.

Perhaps try the fix for failing to bind ports listed for Xenia Netplay regardless. I don't think they're Netplay-specific instructions, just that you should in theory only run into them when trying to play multiplayer/live games (but it seems Gears of War 2 is making some network call at boot). You can also try a different wine version. I've always had success with Bottles.

Unfortunately the fix for Xenia Netplay does not resolve the issue. You can import a game save file from an external device and that will fix the black screen issue, however upon firing your weapon the game will crash and if youre playing on Steam Deck like me, it will completely hard crash your system.

[sonofnabe]

Had several different issues with the game. Running on SteamOS and netplay fix seems to work just fine. However, game crashes every single time my bullets hit either the glasses in the training segment of the story mode or when I hit enemies in the training ground gamemode. As a matter of fact, after trying it again, it seems to crash if I shoot anything too much. Thank you guys so much and if you can find anything please let me know. crash.zip