Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition (738540)

[BillFleming]

Whitelist Request

• Name of the game to be whitelisted: Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition
• Steam AppID of the game: 738540

System Information

• GPU: Vega 64 or RX480
• Driver/LLVM version: Mesa 19.0.2/8.0.1
• Kernel version: 5.0.8-arch1-1-ARCH
• Link to full system information report as Gist: https://gist.github.com/BillFleming/7cb0fa0c9517effc774498036040d948
• Proton version: 4.2

I confirm:

• that pressing the Play button in the Steam client is sufficient.
• that no workarounds other than PROTON_* env variables are necessary.

Issues

• I haven't experienced any issues.
• There are no issues left open for this game.
• Although I consider the gaming experience equal to Windows there are remaining issues:

Notes

This game originally had some crashing issues back in proton 3.1X and the original version of the game on steam. But the game itself was patched and proton has improved so the game now (without modifications) runs better OOTB than on Windows. (less stuttering than on Windows, but game has bad coding)
One of the old crashing issues was it would always crash at a specific point, but they fixed it with the game update.
I haven't yet completely beaten the game on proton (its long) but getting close. In the final chapter part now. I believe that you can now play the game for many hours (5-10) without having any crashing issues.

[kisak-valve]

Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition (738540) stability degradation

Issue transferred from #3434.
@Dvakote posted on 2020-01-15T17:39:13:

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition
• Steam AppID of the game: 738540

System Information

• GPU: Nvidia GTX 960
• Driver/LLVM version: 440.44
• Kernel version: 5.4.6-2-MANJARO
• Link to full system information report
• Proton version: 4.11-12

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.

I found whitelist request #2578 and would totally support it if stability problems on newest proton would be fixed.

Proton log: steam-738540.log

Symptoms

Game have become very unstable after release of proton 4.11-11. Proton 4.11-12 didn't fixed the problem either. All worked fine on 4.11-10 and there weren't any problems before update.

I tried to launch game on proton 4.2-9 and it worked flawlessly like on 4.11-10.

Reproduction

There are several ways to cause game crash:

1. Launch the game
2. Try to move to different location
3. Engage in combat

[doitsujin]

Crashes should (hopefully) be fixed as of doitsujin/dxvk@18450f4.

[SeongGino]

Small update: Though the game itself doesn't have any major issues, I've found two that are related to windowing:

• When the windowed mode is set to Fullscreen, pulling the focus away or doing anything else to cause it to minimize will start leaking memory like a broken bucket - eventually OOM'ing even on a 16GB system if left alone in a minimized state for maybe ten-to-twenty seconds. Does not happen outside of Exclusive Fullscreen specifically.
• When set to Borderless Windowed, the cursor (which is integrated with the game's feather pen pointer) starts jittering with mouse movement. It doesn't affect usability per-se, but is very visually distracting if playing with a kb+m. Does not happen outside of Borderless specifically.

I realize that dismissing fullscreen apps is still temperamental in Linux, but this is the only game, Wine or otherwise, that I've had an inactive ram leak happen from doing this. I've checked with Berseria (same series/engine) and Zestiria (same port developer), neither reproducing this effect.

Observed as of current Proton Experimental (2022/07/19).

[SeongGino]

Update: FWIW, latest Proton Experimental (~2022/08/22) seems to break compatibility with the SpecialK patch that improves game's bad frame pacing/stuttering. Using the last stable release to resolve this.

[AJuujarvi]

Update: FWIW, latest Proton Experimental (~2022/08/22) seems to break compatibility with the SpecialK patch that improves game's bad frame pacing/stuttering. Using the last stable release to resolve this.

I'm not familiar with running SpecialK in Proton. Do you have a guide or know the steps to get it all set up? I'd like to try and take a look at this for testing. @SeongGino