Proton: Assassin’s Creed® Liberation HD (260210)

[NTMan]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Assassin’s Creed® Liberation HD
• Steam AppID of the game: 260210

System Information

• GPU: Vega 64
• Driver/LLVM version: Mesa 18.3.2/7.0.1
• Kernel version: 5.0.0-0.rc4
• Link to full system information report as Gist
• Proton version: 3.16-6 Beta

I confirm:

• [x] that I haven't found an existing compatibility report for this game.
• [x] that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available.

steam-260210.zip

Symptoms

Looks like uplay become crashable after update.

$ ps aux | grep upc
mikhail  27024  1.8  0.1 2693872 53868 pts/2   Sl+  23:37   0:00 C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Ubisoft Game Launcher\UbisoftGameLauncher.exe -gamelauncher_wait_handle 220 -upc_uplay_id 632 -upc_game_version 0 -upc_exe_path WjpcaG9tZVxtaWtoYWlsXC5sb2NhbFxzaGFyZVxTdGVhbVxzdGVhbWFwcHNcY29tbW9uXEFzc2Fzc2luJ3MgQ3JlZWQgTGliZXJhdGlvblxhYzNsaGRfMzIuZXhl -upc_working_directory WjpcaG9tZVxtaWtoYWlsXC5sb2NhbFxzaGFyZVxTdGVhbVxzdGVhbWFwcHNcY29tbW9uXEFzc2Fzc2luJ3MgQ3JlZWQgTGliZXJhdGlvbg== -upc_arguments LXVwbGF5X3N0ZWFtX21vZGU= -uplay_steam_mode
mikhail  27027 14.6  0.0      0     0 pts/2    Zl+  23:37   0:02 [upc.exe] <defunct>
mikhail  27149  0.0  0.0 215752   900 pts/20   S+   23:38   0:00 grep --color=auto upc

Reproduction

Just launch the game.

[nsivov]

That's basically issue #2268. We can still have this one open until it's verified that game itself has no issues.

[Shatrico]

for me with the new proton version uplay is running fine but the game gives me a black screen

[howels]

With Proton 3.16.8-beta this issue still occurs. Now we have uplay launching and updating and the game does launch but shows only a black screen when using PROTON_USE_WINED3D. Using PROTON_NO_D3D11 other any other combination of options simply results in the game instantly closing after uplay launches and triggers the main game exe file.

[kisak-valve]

Hello @Shatrico, @howels, with Proton 3.16-8, can one of you add PROTON_LOG=1 %command% to the game's launch options and drag and drop the generated $HOME/steam-$APPID.log into the comment box.

[NTMan]

Disabling "in-game overlay" which helps play in Assassins Odyssey didn't helps here.

steam-260210.log

[howels]

This works with Lutris and 32-bit Vulkan with DXVK 1.0.1 (using either Wine 3.21 or 4.0) but produces a black screen in Steamplay with Proton 3.16-8.

[howels]

Using Proton 4.2-1 needed to manually trigger the proton download. Game quits to desktop when uplay overlay is disabled, with overlay a black screen and a hang.

Log attached with overlay disabled.
steam-260210.log

[kisak-valve]

Looks like this game needs Media Foundation support.

[howels]

This game works when running from Lutris using Windows Steam via Wine 4.0 + DXVK. Is there a library in the Windows Steam client or is it present in Wine but missing from Proton?

[vjr2]

Is there a way to auto-kill upc.exe when exit the game? It's quite annoying to kill it by the terminal/monitor every time you end an uplay game

[howels]

@vjr2 please look in the uplay settings and disable minimize to system tray.