Child of Light (256290)

[Cxpher]

Steam App ID :
256290

Description of issue :
When launching with Proton, Uplay becomes a zombie process and the game is stuck indefinitely without starting.

Have to find the zombie process and kill it or force kill it by restarting Steam.

System Information :
CPU: i7-3770k
GPU: GTX 670 FTW
Driver/LLVM version: NVIDIA 418.56
Distro version: Arch Linux
Proton version: 4.2-1

[kisak-valve]

Hello @Cxpher, please disable uplay's overlay, then add PROTON_LOG=1 %command% to the game's launch options and drag and drop the generated $HOME/steam-$APPID.log into the comment box.

[Cxpher]

Hi, How do I disable uplay overlay?

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On Thu, 28 Mar 2019, 02:55 kisak-valve, ***@***.***> wrote: Hello @Cxpher <https://github.com/Cxpher>, please disable uplay's overlay, then add PROTON_LOG=1 %command% <https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton#runtime-config-options> to the game's launch options and drag and drop the generated $HOME/steam-$APPID.log into the comment box. — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#2463 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ArbrzryXtyfZUQoIDQ6HvLmN9-uFCBPLks5va761gaJpZM4cOf5Y> .

[Cxpher]

I need to kill upc.exe and then the zombie process comes to live and starts the game.

However..

Three minor issues:

1: I can't get rid of the box in the upper right corner "Press Shift+F2 while in game to activate the overlay" while in game. Can't disable the Uplay overlay unless anyone has a better way? The Uplay client on the desktop via wine won't respond to any clicks

2: There is a black square appearing at the center of the screen at the beginning of each fight which fades away quickly. So it doesn't interfere with the gameplay

[omicron-b]

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600x
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1060 6G
Driver/LLVM version: NVIDIA 418.56
Distro version: Ubuntu 18.04
Proton version: 4.2-1
System info: Gist

Uplay works fine for me, I right clicked in that window

went to settings and disabled Uplay overlay and as much other options as possible, like notifications, friends, etc. except Cloud saves. So, no Uplay box on my screen.

Game also works fine so far, including Steam controller, with the exception of same black square as @Cxpher reported

Attached is log with black square
steam-256290.log

[Cxpher]

Hi guys, I tried right clicking on this window and going settings. That's where I wasn't able to interact with the Uplay window. Going to Uplay in game options does not give me the option to disable to overlay. Could be one off. I'll try later and see if I can do it. As for the black box, that's definitely not normal. Playable but it's noticeable.

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On Thu, 28 Mar 2019, 14:13 m-svo, ***@***.***> wrote: CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600x GPU: Nvidia GTX 1060 6G Driver/LLVM version: NVIDIA 418.56 Distro version: Ubuntu 18.04 Proton version: 4.2-1 System info: Gist <https://gist.github.com/m-svo/b23434025e92c7e21de7229d8eef31e7> Uplay works fine for me, I right clicked in that window [image: Screenshot from 2019-03-28 08-40-10] <https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/32303844/55133479-ded38a00-5136-11e9-9070-c0c27c3f9ed7.png> went to settings and disabled Uplay overlay and as much other options as possible, like notifications, friends, etc. except Cloud saves. So, no Uplay box on my screen. Game also works fine so far, including Steam controller, with the exception of same black square as @Cxpher <https://github.com/Cxpher> reported Attached is log with black square steam-256290.log <https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/files/3016426/steam-256290.log> — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#2463 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ArbrzuPMxOfYHtw8YWhK3FqNCorMulFEks5vbF2EgaJpZM4cOf5Y> .

[ApollonWrock]

No such window shows up on my end.
Game prepares for start for a while but closes eventually.
steam-256290.log

[Cxpher]

You have to kill upc.exe. It will auto restart and start uplay and CoL.

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On Fri, 29 Mar 2019, 09:09 ApollonWrock, ***@***.***> wrote: No such window shows up on my end. Game prepares for start for a while but closes eventually. steam-256290.log <https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/files/3020680/steam-256290.log> — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#2463 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ArbrzgZZD8STMruNujqznKvhgI9rAGmOks5vbWe0gaJpZM4cOf5Y> .

[zzhiyi]

Uplay update, the following commits are need to get uplay working again. Should be fix by next proton update.
https://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/commitdiff/df3dd6612c2098e347cad88c90853cf3892e4301
https://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/commitdiff/d2d52717af2a64196d9bc983ba8b75e64c05c3f8

[ApollonWrock]

I actually changed versions and verified cache (some random actions)

For some reason it seems to work now. Uplay does show up correctly, I can log in, the games show up and I can play :)
Ubuntu 18, proton 4.2-1

[Cxpher]

Disabling uplay overlay works.

Only thing left now is that black box.

[Cxpher]

Black box still appears at the beginning of fights in 4.2-7. Should i open another bug report for that?

[omicron-b]

@Cxpher no, the policy is 1 report per non officially supported game

[Yar4e]

Uplay don't becomes a zombie process for me and i don't saw any black boxes at beginning of fights, but i have a little bit crackling sound ingame and fps drops.
steam-256290.log.zip
steam_sys_info.txt

[FurretUber]

Comparing D9VK with Wine D3D9, I noticed that D9VK uses much less CPU resources: htop shows 200% CPU usage with Wine D3D9 and 140% with D9VK. Framerate with D9VK is generally 45 FPS, can reach 60 sometimes. With Wine D3D9, framerate is around 30, on very rare occasions reaches 50. I wonder what is the CPU load and frame rate when playing on Windows.

There is one difference I found: Aurora is different using D9VK, as if a different filter is being used. As Aurora's model is the only 3D model, it seems this difference is exclusive to Aurora. Enemies are the same, the backgrounds are the same: at least I couldn't find any any differences. The following images are cropped to make the comparison.

Wine D3D9:

D9VK:

About UPlay, after setting to save the log in credentials, it opens the game directly, working as intended.

System specifications: https://gist.github.com/FurretUber/5b15c8267a44a85547317c95553a3b90

Edit: I did some tests on Windows. I stopped in one place where I noticed Child of Light was running at 60 FPS with very high GPU load (94% was the minimum observed) and around 25% CPU load (the equivalent for htop 100%, considering this is a four threads processor). It would very rarely go down to 57 FPS, but kept nearly all the time at 60 FPS. That same place on Linux caused a htop 140% CPU load with 100% GPU load and around 45 FPS. I believe this gives a reliable picture of the current performance impact.

There is the advantage that my gamepad works on Linux (including vibration) but doesn't on Windows.