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I started by trying to follow "Chris Linus Tech's" tutorial @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZhuOrP … =59&t=693s - and his tutorial did not work; its also six months old. But while reading through some of the user comments; they mention that Proton 4.2-9 works with Path of Exile without any runtime options what so ever. So i decide to give it a shot as it was the version of Proton that steam installed automatically. SUCCESS!! the game loaded faster than i had time to contemplate if it would work or not. I go into the options and turn off V-Sync like i do with every game and as per 99% of every forum post or comment i have seen regarding the topic. I play the game for about 15-20 minutes going about completing the first qust "Mercy Mission" in the Tidal Flats.
This is where it went down hill. As soon as i loaded the environment/scene for the Tidal Flats - my computer monitor goes completely black and i can hear the waves crashing againts the shore. ALT+F4, ALT+TAB, SUPER+D(show desktop), even CTRL+ALT+DEL; did not work! I had to hold the power button my machine to force a shut down. I cringed thinking about the SSD that Path of Exile was installed on as i held down the button. After a reboot, i decide to try a few of the runtime options that are floating through forums and comments. I used the arguments from the tutorial i posted earlier- as well as different variations of runtime options that are listed on the ProtonDB for Path of Exile "https://www.protondb.com/app/238960". I kept getting a black screen lockup at the Tidal Flats, as soon as it would leave the loading screen and try to draw the world - black screen.
The only runtime option that worked, was from the PrtotonDB reviews - "PROTON_USE_WINED3D" I was able to load the Tidal Flats and complete my first quest without a hitch. I got really excited after turning in my first quest and hit "ESC-Exit to OS" *BLACK SCREEN LOCK UP* - yet again!.
I have updated Nvidia drivers, LLVM7, Python3, Vulkan-icd-loader & lib32-vulkan-icd-loader. I am about 99% certain i have every pre-requisite, including the steam-native-runtime. My steam has beta updates enabled.
I enabled SSHD on the machine, to try and at least "sudo reboot" or "sudo shutdown now" from an SSH session over my phone. I can successfully connect; but after i issue the CMD in SSH, i get disconnected from SSH and the computer does not reboot.
Seeing as how the computer hard locks up - im not sure as how to troubleshoot here?
Anyone have luck running Path of Exile from the Steam-runtime? As per the ProtonDB site - they ask everyone to post the system information copied from the steam window - so just to eliminate all questions about hardware:
***EDIT: The only runtime options I have not tried are "PROTON_NO_D3D11" forcing it back to a d3d9 environment instead of D3D11.
Computer Information:
Manufacturer: Unknown
Model: Unknown
Form Factor: Desktop
No Touch Input Detected
Processor Information:
CPU Vendor: GenuineIntel
CPU Brand: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5820K CPU @ 3.30GHz
CPU Family: 0x6
CPU Model: 0x3f
CPU Stepping: 0x2
CPU Type: 0x0
Speed: 3900 Mhz
6 logical processors
6 physical processors
HyperThreading: Unsupported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Unsupported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported
AES: Supported
AVX: Supported
CMPXCHG16B: Supported
LAHF/SAHF: Supported
PrefetchW: Unsupported
Operating System Version:
Unknown (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 5.2.4-arch1-1-ARCH
X Server Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server Release: 12005000
X Window Manager: Mutter(Budgie)
Steam Runtime Version: steam-runtime_0.20190711.3
Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 980/PCIe/SSE2
Driver Version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 430.34
OpenGL Version: 4.6
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 59 Hz
VendorID: 0x10de
DeviceID: 0x13c0
Revision Not Detected
Number of Monitors: 2
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
Primary Display Resolution: 1920 x 1200
Desktop Resolution: 2944 x 1200
Primary Display Size: 20.39" x 12.76" (24.02" diag)
51.8cm x 32.4cm (61.0cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primary VRAM: 4096 MB
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x 16x
Sound card:
Audio device: Realtek ALC1150
Memory:
RAM: 15949 Mb
Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
LANG: en_US.UTF-8
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 238836 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 177205 Mb
VR Headset: None detected
Recent Failure Reports:
Last edited by Ganome (2019-07-31 21:16:21)
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I think i may have solved my own problem. By simply using the Final resort of D3D9. I have been playing the game for about an hour now, and no freezes or hard lock ups. Steam-runtime Launch Options for Path of Exile: "PROTON_NO_D3D11" and thats it. When i first started the game - there was some horrid visual glitches, maybe textures being mapped or something? i haven't the slightest. But i could see the game, with White triangles of various sizes flashing all over the screen. I hit ESC, and they went away. Haven't returned. Only lasted about 5 seconds. I will update Forum post to [SOLVED] after some further play-testing
I have included screenshots of my In-game settings for anyone interested
https://paste.pics/c2dca0e5e3f1ca1a0263e32110fbffa1
https://paste.pics/f98f428743a39c0fbd93994a0e6f9f99
I just played for over 2 straight hours, and not a single hiccup. Great gameplay and usually around 100 FPS.
I would eventually like to figure out why the DXVK drivers are freezing my computer, but in the meantime i will just use the D3D9.
I just installed path of exile on my son's desktop with a G-Force 610 and it runs the game natively with Vulcan support. My GTX 980 has as much RAM as his entire computer!! Maybe I did something wrong.....
Last edited by Ganome (2019-08-01 02:00:31)
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This is my second reply to my own post - yes. I just got tired of the countless edits i was doing and probably hard to keep track of my nonsense.
FINAL UPDATE:
Path of Exile runs perfect on my machine with over 100FPS (~140FPS). I just found out that a few hours ago Proton updated to Version 4.11-1. This new version takes a runtime variable to enable the improved D9VK library. The only runtime option i have running now is the option to ENABLE the D9VK. These options can be found here https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/releases . I have also modifed the way sysctl handles VM's. By editing "/etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf" to include the following:
vm.swappiness = 10
vm.vfs_cache_pressure = 50
vm.watermmark_scale_factor = 200
vm.dirty_ratio = 3Reboot after editing/creating that file. Found this advice as per the youtube tutorial from Chris Titus Tech Linked in the first post.
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EDIT: Sorry folks. After a few hours of gameplay - i got this from dmesg after a crash. https://pastebin.com/xKiWQvP3 Any pointers??
I think i need to change my MTRR values - but havent the slightest clue how? i cant find the option in the BIOS of my Asus X-99A. Above 4G decoding?
Last edited by Ganome (2019-08-01 09:01:02)
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