Proton: Phantasy Star Online 2 (1056640)

[PSebs]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Phantasy Star Online 2
• Steam AppID of the game: 1056640

System Information

• GPU: RX 470
• Driver/LLVM version: Mesa 20.1.4/10.0.0
• Kernel version: 5.4.55-1-lts
• Link to full system information report as Gist
• Proton version: 5.0-9

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.

Symptoms

The game would not launch when you click the Start Game button in the game's own launcher. pso2.exe runs in the background as a zombie process.

Reproduction

1. Launch the game from Steam.
2. Press the Start Game button in the game's launcher

Log

Google Drive link to steam-1056640.log, It kinda blew up to 53 MB in just a few seconds when opening up the game.

[jobucaldas]

I tried with 5.9-GE5-ST, it shows a window and crashes after a second.

With 5.0.9 the launcher was super unresponsive and after getting the start button to work, the game never opens.

[redstarcoder]

I encounter the same behaviour as @PSebs running 5.0-10 RC. Similar hardware.

[cyrsigil]

I tried with 5.9-GE5-ST, it shows a window and crashes after a second.

With 5.0.9 the launcher was super unresponsive and after getting the start button to work, the game never opens.

Same exact experience here. This game uses nProtect GameGuard, which is a rootkit anticheat. I feel like unless someone makes a patch specifically for this game (or nProtect GG in general) it's very unlikely it will be playable.

[ahjolinna]

well for some reason I got the SEGA intro playing before I got that same error (with the same '5.9-GE5-ST' proton version): steam-1056640.log

for some reason when I tried launching the game the first time I never got any error screen ....just a blank screen (neither SEGA intro either): steam-1056640.log

...oh and, at least for me the launcher worked really, no issues with it's responsiveness

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my system spec:

inxi -bxx
System:    Host: 91-158-92-139 Kernel: 5.3.18-lp152.36-default x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 7.5.0 Console: tty 1 dm: SDDM 
           Distro: openSUSE Leap 15.2 
Machine:   Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: Z170 PRO GAMING v: Rev X.0x serial: 150647662404153 UEFI: American Megatrends 
           v: 3805 date: 05/16/2018 
CPU:       Quad Core: Intel Core i5-6600K type: MCP arch: Skylake-S speed: 4400 MHz min/max: 800/4400 MHz 
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] vendor: eVga.com. driver: nvidia v: 450.57 bus ID: 01:00.0 
           chip ID: 10de:13c2 
           Display: server: X.org 1.20.3 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: nvidia tty: 286x41 
           Message: Advanced graphics data unavailable in console for root. 
Network:   Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: ASUSTeK driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k port: f000 bus ID: 00:1f.6 
           chip ID: 8086:15b8 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 35.95 TiB used: 191.53 GiB (0.5%) 
Info:      Processes: 285 Uptime: N/A Memory: 15.57 GiB used: 1.98 GiB (12.7%) Init: systemd v: 234 runlevel: 5 
           target: graphical.target Compilers: gcc: 7.5.0 alt: 7 Shell: bash v: 4.4.23 running in: tty 1 inxi: 3.1.00 

[guglovich]

Until there is a patch for GameGuard, this will all be a lottery. For example Lineage 2 in isolated cases works with GameGuard.