Game crashes at spawn

I found a longer stack trace in the crash report form the log of the system, here it is:

https://pastebin.com/m4LUgxj7

The game client is updated to the today (27/06/2024) hotfix, the behavior is the same.

The games will run on 'lowest' video quality. If I try 'lower', it crashes. It will then crash on spawn even after going back to 'lowest'. I have to clear data (all maps) to get it to run again on 'lowest'.

Even without changing any settings, sometimes when I log back in it crashes, deleting the map allows it to run again.

Thank you for the reply, this is what I am doing to try to obtain your positive result:

1. Execute the game in "Show game launcher" mode
2. In the tools tab execute "Clean all data" with all the checkboxes ticked
3. In the "Start game" tab disable EAC and click the "Run" button
4. Accept the [redacted] EULA
5. In the game client open the video settings and switch to the "lowest" preset. Apply and back
6. Create a new game, keep the default character and the default map
7. Click the "Spawn" button

After around 30 seconds (quite stable as timing) the game still crashes for me

Tried some variations with GLCore or vulkan, video settings set to lowest, high and default with same results.

I'm experiencing the same issue w/ very similar setup.

 

Summary: Game crashes either right before or right after spawn

Game Version: 1.0 b309

OS/Version: Fedora 40 (Gnome, Wayland... same problem in Gnome x11)

CPU Model: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D

System Memory: 64GB

GPU Model and VRAM: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (radeonsi, navi31, LLVM 18.1.6, DRM 3.57, 6.9.6-200.fc40.x86_64)

Screen Resolution: 3400 x 1440

Video Settings: Crashes on both lowest and ultra, didn't try settings in the middle

Game mode: SP and MP

 

Did you wipe old saves? Yes

 

Did you start a new game? Yes

 

Did you validate your files? Yes

 

Are you using any mods? No

 

EAC on or off? on

 

Status: NEW

 

Bug Description: game crashes at spawn

 

Detailed steps to reproduce the bug:

1) load into single or multi player game

 

 

Actual result: game crashes at spawn

 

Expected result: game does not crash at spawn

Link to Pastebin Output Log: https://pastebin.com/neV3XN0p

 

While I cannot reproduce, I believe with three separate reports from different users we may be able to investigate further as to why this is happening on Fedora.

"LINUX Game crashes during spawn or shortly after"

Edited Saturday at 06:03 PM by cheebsco (see edit history)

same ploblem with me ..
blocked at : "INF WordStaticData.init() needed 5.000s

I may have found something useful. Searching around about this problem I found this thread on a forum about another game based on Unity:

 

https://steamcommunity.com/app/892970/discussions/1/4358995462055633032/

 

They concluded the problem is in a bug in some Mono library calling the system library "zlib-ng-compat" used in Fedora 40 (not sure if I understood correctly, read the various links in the thread for the exact explanation). As a workaround they fixed the crash replacing the stable version 2.1.6 with one at version 2.1.7 downloaded from the fedora buildsystem.

 

I tried doing the same and now 7d2d is stable with the vulkan renderer and the Ultra graphics settings. I hope this can help the developers solve the problem because I do not know when fedora expects to upgrade the library.

 

PS:

If someone wants to do the same i remember that installing non-official packages may damage your system and bla bla bla... i will not be responsible for any damage bla bla bla...

The packages I installed are:

zlib-ng-compat-2.1.7-1.fc41.i686.rpm

zlib-ng-compat-2.1.7-1.fc41.x86_64.rpm

from https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=2477517

Small update about the the library. Looks like the Fedora maintainers are aware of this problem:

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/zlib-ng/pull-request/20

The version 2.1.7 is already in testing for fedora 40:

https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/zlib-ng/zlib-ng-compat/

I tried installing the testing version instead of the one i used in the previous post and the game still works reliably.

Thank you very much for looking into this (especially since it turned out to not be your issue)! Looking forward to the Fedora fix and having one less reason to boot into Windows.