Does DotA 2 Test crash for anyone else?

MutantJohn · 2013-07-11 23:28:56

DotA 2 Test is now available on Steam for Linux and for me, I keep getting illegal instruction calls which crashes the game every time I actually try to start a game of DotA. I can use the lobby fine and change graphics settings and everything but actually trying to play the game calls things it shouldn't be, apparently, and the core is aborted or dumped or whatever it's called.

Has anyone else been experiencing a similar error?

miscsubbin · 2013-07-12 00:06:49

Mine is crashing all over the place. It's extremely laggy and crashes as soon as you try to get into a game.

MutantJohn · 2013-07-12 00:08:31

Good, it's not just me. I submitted a bug report to Valve so hopefully they'll get back to me with an ETA of fixing because every other Steam game plays absolutely fine on Arch Linux for me.

ctown.myth · 2013-07-12 01:43:40

I can't start it at all. How do you start Steam from the terminal for verbose? I can't get any errors

Also I have an X230 with an HD 4000, is that similar for everyone else?

EDIT: Reading over my post again, I realized I was stupid and didn't specify that I had problems with Dota and not Steam itself, oops!

Last edited by ctown.myth (2013-07-12 03:34:47)

MutantJohn · 2013-07-12 03:26:54

That's interesting, I pop open a terminal and type "steam" and it'll start the application but keep spewing stuff out the terminal. Most of the time it's about breakpad exceptions and trying to remove a node that believe its it parent or something silly like that.

I'm surprised there's so many errors for Arch users. Then again, it is just a beta run.

Weegee · 2013-07-13 00:59:49

There was a bug which made it impossible to start DOTA 2 on several AMD CPUs. The latest patch from two hours ago should have fixed this and some other issues.

ChemBro · 2013-07-13 14:10:49

I can play it, but it has many graphical errors. I'm on AMD Radeon, but I saw a video of a Nvidia user, who had the same graphical errors.

WorMzy · 2013-07-13 14:45:21

I've not had any problems playing (Nvidia, binary blob), but I couldn't access the shop yesterday, it just CTD'd.

The game seems very stable for me, but I have no idea what I'm doing in it. Haha.

miscsubbin · 2013-07-13 16:35:03

I'm currently running the LTS kernel, so that may have something to do with it. I'll have to switch one of these days.

ctown.myth · 2013-07-13 18:36:14

So I got some time this morning to do quickly run from the command line, and I got the following errors:

1) (steam:12748): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that doesn't believe we're it's parent.
2) Game removed: AppID 205790 "Dota 2 Test", ProcID 12856
3) /home/mycookie/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/dota 2 test/dota.sh: line 64: /home/mycookie/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/dota 2 test/dota_linux: Permission denied

I chown'd and chmod'd dota.sh and dota_linux, and now I can get the game to run, however I get the font white-out problem that is pretty common. Has the solution been found for that?

Šaran · 2013-07-13 18:53:01

For me it only crashes after leveling up in Sniper vs. Axe tutorial. This is supossed to be fixed in next update.
There lots of graphical glitches and fps sometimes drops down to barely playable. I hope they will get performance
on similar level with other Valve games (TF2 runs flawlessly at everything maxed out).

My specs:
i7 740m
8 GB ram
nVidia 460m 1.5 GB vram

ctown.myth · 2013-07-13 19:00:03

I've found this thread that seems to point to a Mesa issue: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Dota-2/issues/38

Can anybody check or confirm on nouveau & radeon drivers?

marceel · 2013-07-14 08:29:13

i can run Dota 2 test but when I'm in game I have this problem https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Dota-2/issues/36

Pc specs:
AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 945 Processor × 4
ram 6GB
ATI 4850HD 13.1 catalyst driver

I added these options in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and my fps increased from 10 to 30 fps. But i still have graphic artefacts on screen.

Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
Option "backingstore" "true"

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
        Driver      "fglrx"
        Option        "backingstore" "true" 
        Option      "Monitor-DFP2" "0-DFP2"
     Option        "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true" 
        Option      "UseFastTLS" "off"
        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Last edited by marceel (2013-07-14 09:16:09)

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