Blue Estate The Game (305380)

[AwesamLinux]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Blue Estate The Game
• Steam AppID of the game: 305380

System Information

Distro: Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa (64 bit)
GPU: Vega 56
Driver/LLVM version: Mesa 19.1.0-devel/9.0.0
Kernel version: 5.0.7-050007-generic
Proton version: 4.2-3

I confirm:

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

Symptoms

Game won't start, configuration tool does open up though, where you can change settings and either launch the 32bit or 64bit version. Tried launching both versions but nothing happens.

I also tried the game with older Proton version 3.16-4 (as there are a couple of Platinum reports with it on ProtonDB) but made no difference.

steam-305380 32bit.log
steam-305380 64bit.log
system_info.txt

Reproduction

Either try just launching the game, or try launching the configuration tool and from there start the 64bit or 32bit version.

[HonkingGoose]

Maybe this is of interest? kisak-valve found a similar line interesting at #2564 (comment)

73998.660:002c:002d:fixme:process:GetNumaHighestNodeNumber (0x5ff4c0): semi-stub

[AwesamLinux]

System Information

• GPU: RX VEGA 56
• GPU Driver: Mesa ACO 19.1.0+aco+git1564747450-10690f8d9e6-1bionic1 (Valves PPA)
• Kernel version: 5.2.5-050205-lowlatency
• Distro version: Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa (64 bit) (Cinnamon Desktop)
• Proton version: 4.11-1
• System information: system_info.txt

Compatibility Retest Report

Game works out of the box now, both with and without D9VK. I retested also with older Proton versions and the game is also working on those! 😮

Not sure why this game suddenly started working even with older Protons, the reasons I can think of

• A different Mesa driver
• More recent Kernel
• I switched from using dual-channel to a quad-channel memory setup since testing it last time. I have encountered two games before (Tekken 7 and Hellblade), that started working after the only hardware/software change being switching memory setup from dual to quad-channel. Maybe this is another game that was affected by some very specific Threadripper issue.

One remaining issue is that the game launches minimized. This appears to happen with some UE3 engine games, when using Gnome based desktops like Pantheon, Budgie, Mate and Cinnamon and ofcourse Gnome itself.

Logs of launching the game up to the first level (the minized issue on launch occured in all tests):
steam-305380-3.7-8.log.zip
steam-305380-proton-3.16-9.log.zip
steam-305380-proton-4.11-1b.log
steam-305380-proton-4.11-1b-d9vk.log