Age of Empires: Definitive Edition (1017900)

[gcavalcante8808]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Age Of Empires: Definitive Edition
• Steam AppID of the game: 1017900

System Information

• GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB
• Driver/LLVM version: nvidia 418.74
• Kernel version: 4.19.0-5-amd64
• Link to full system information report as Gist: https://gist.github.com/gcavalcante8808/3e1dc82372006b92bb22ceeac6ea8301
• Proton version: 4.2.9

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.

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Proton: 1561645030 proton-4.2-9
SteamGameId: 1017900

Errors (I cant paste here because of the "Comment is too long (maximum is 65536 characters) Error": https://gist.github.com/gcavalcante8808/46146866096ba70d56a9607cc1a7c77e

Symptoms

The gamejust Crahes and wont open.

Reproduction

Install and try to run the game.

[Krutonium]

info: Game: AoEDE_s.exe
info: DXVK: v1.3.2-4-g0b21ef18
warn: OpenVR: Failed to initialize OpenVR
info: Required Vulkan extension VK_KHR_get_physical_device_properties2 not supported
info: Required Vulkan extension VK_KHR_surface not supported
info: Required Vulkan extension VK_KHR_win32_surface not supported
err: DxvkInstance: Failed to create instance

[jzengc]

I can reproduce a crash related to media foundation here:
wine: Call from 0x7bc6ab1c to unimplemented function MFPlat.DLL.MFCreateDXGIDeviceManager, aborting

I will have a try to add some stub implementations of these to see if it help.

[LinkofHyrule89]

I'm trying to fun this in Debian in Crostini and it's telling me that it couldn't initialize Direct X 11 is there anything extra I need to set up to get it to recognize DX11 with Proton? It never gets past there and just closes.

[kisak-valve]

Hello @Krutonium, @LinkofHyrule89, Proton uses DXVK to translate DirectX 11 to Vulkan, it failing to initialize usually indicates that your system does not have a working Vulkan driver installed or your hardware does not support Vulkan. You can use any simple Vulkan application like vulkaninfo as a test.

Alternatively, you could try adding PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command% to the game's launch options to tell Proton to use the DirectX 11 to OpenGL render path, but you'll still hit the Media Foundation issue.

[Krutonium]

Welp, I completely forgot to install the Vulkan libs on my system. Thanks for the pointer!

[ryao]

At a minimum, not only does making this work require implementing MFCreateDXGIDeviceManager(), but we also need to implement at least part of IMFDXGIDeviceManager:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/mfobjects/nn-mfobjects-imfdxgidevicemanager
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/mfapi/nf-mfapi-mfcreatedxgidevicemanager

[ryao]

This is failing to play the intro video and I am told in IRC that the NoStartup commandline switch from the original game does not work. If someone can find a way to disable the intro videos, then it should be possible to workaround this.

[ryao]

The workaround from here might make it work:

#1102 (comment)

However, that person appears to be transplanting the entire Windows Media Foundation component from a working Windows install into Proton. A more lightweight workaround (or patches that make it work) would be desirable.

[LinkofHyrule89]

Just as an update to my own commend. I discovered that Crostini doesn't currently support Vulkan in Virgl GPU Acceleration. So I submitted a bug report on their side so hopefully, this can be corrected in the future so that Vulkan works correctly on Linux apps for Chromebooks. Good luck getting the rest of the issues sorted out so AOEDE can hopefully run on Linux in the future thanks for your hard work :)

[telans]

The workaround from here might make it work:

#1102 (comment)

However, that person appears to be transplanting the entire Windows Media Foundation component from a working Windows install into Proton. A more lightweight workaround (or patches that make it work) would be desirable.

I've tried transplanting dlls, but that doesn't seem to work. Just to note I haven't tried doing anything else in that comment which is why I probably didn't get anywhere. But anyway:

First I got Unimplemented function MFPlat.DLL.MFCreateDXGIDeviceManager, so I took the Windows 10 dll. Then unimplemented function RTWorkQ.DLL.RtwqRegisterPlatformEvents. One RTWorkQ.dll later, and unimplemented function KERNEL32.dll.SetProcessPreferredUILanguages. I haven't got any further than this

[ryao]

@telans You need to use the Windows 7 versions and set certain registry entries. There is a special version of winetricks that does this:

Winetricks/winetricks#1132 (comment)

[telans]

@telans You need to use the Windows 7 versions and set certain registry entries. There is a special version of winetricks that does this:

Winetricks/winetricks#1132 (comment)

I've used that version and installed mf @ Win7, but the game still requires RTWorkQ.dll, so I had to manuall put that in.

However, now I actually get to the splash screen (AoE poster), and I also now get a fullscreen black window with the DXVK hud.
Screenshots:

aoe-log.log

[ryao]

@telans Please post your proton log.