Proton: The Outer Worlds (578650)

[dennis1248]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: The Outer Worlds
• Steam AppID of the game: 578650

System Information

• GPU: AMD RX 5700
• Driver/LLVM version: Mesa 20.2.1 / LLVM 10.0.0
• Kernel version: 5.8.16
• Link to full system information report as Gist: https://gist.github.com/dennis1248/289a286f6f5ce11751bdca2c1996a49c
• Proton version: 5.13-1 and 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.

proton-5.0-9_steam-578650.log
proton-5.13-1_steam-578650.log

Symptoms

The game tries to launch but crashes shortly after a full-screen black game window appears.

Reproduction

1. Launch the game via the Steam client
2. Wait until the full-screen game window appears
3. Wait another 5 seconds before it crashes and puts you back on to the desktop

[kisak-valve]

Hello @dennis1248, looks like this game would benefit from support for Media Foundation maturing.

[dennis1248]

Hey @kisak-valve thank you for the response. Since you mentioned Media Foundation I tried out GloriousEggroll's Proton-5.9-GE-8-ST and the game launches fine using it, at least I can get in to the main menu just fine.It gets stuck and eventually crashes during the loading screen after starting a new game.

Edit: After trying a few more times it launches fine now and I managed to get in game using Proton-5.9-GE-8-ST. So the stability might not be great.

Edit 2: The game is unplayable with Proton-5.9-GE-8-ST, it suffers from various bugs such as crashes on load screens and some videos do not display and instead show a black screen or freeze half way through. So Proton GE is not a suitable workaround.

[McMarius11]

the game runs okay with Proton-5.9-GE-7-ST
i just had to turn down the graphics
i run the game in borderless windowed mode

OS: Manjaro Linux
KERNEL: 5.8.16-2-MANJARO
CPU: Intel Core i5-7600K @ 3.80GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
GPU DRIVER: NVIDIA 455.28
RAM: 24 GB

[zaggynl]

Proton-5.9-GE-2-MF worked for me.

My Steam sysinfo: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/zaggynl/aaab9a69b87425c7bb04badefd9a931e/raw/8989c3a30ced2f422842b01c61fdaa09c94fde7d/gistfile1.txt

Edit: sometimes the game starts and only shows cursor, other time it shows all studio logos and continues, what gives?

[leinardi]

For me the game freezes with Proton 5.9-GE-8-ST few seconds after the character creation, when you are on the pod on the way to the planet:

I tried to lower the graphic settings from Ultra to Very High but didn't make any change.
Anyone else with this issue? I'm on Nvidia 450.66 and 2080Ti.

[McMarius11]

For me the game freezes with Proton 5.9-GE-8-ST few seconds after the character creation, when you are on the pod on the way to the planet.
I tried to lower the graphic settings from Ultra to Very High but didn't make any change.
Anyone else with this issue? I'm on Nvidia 450.66 and 2080Ti.

Maybe a graphics driver update would help. Just give the game some time to create the shaders if it stutters at the beginning

[leinardi]

Thanks, after updating the drivers to 455.23.04 I was able to get past the point where it was freezing. Tomorrow I'll try to play a little more to see if I find other issues.

[hevanaa]

Black screen with Proton 5.13-1. Running fine with Proton 5.9-GE-8-ST. The first time I had to start it twice to fully start the game. One crash so far after playing maybe two hours. Nvidia driver 455.28-1 (from RPM Fusion repository) on Fedora 32. GTX 1070 and G-sync on Freesync display 34" 3440x1440.

[pradeepbyju5]

I am using 5.9 GE and experiencing perf issue whenever inventory menu is opened. The frame rate drop to 10 fps and does not recover, game needs to be restarted.

Elementary OS 5.1.7
i5 4690k
GTX 960

[zaggynl]

There's a memory leak or thread issue in there somewhere, after a couple hours I seem to run out of something, game freezes and becomes unresponsive.
If I try to alt tab and start htop in a terminal I get back: bash: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable
Shortly after that the game crashes and exits.
dmesg shows:

[ 9596.667687] pipewire-media-[6325]: segfault at 50 ip 00007fad0851de70 sp 00007fff090bee68 error 4 in libpipewire-0.3.so.0.313.0[7fad084eb000+40000]
[ 9596.667693] Code: 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 8b 47 20 48 85 c0 74 10 48 8b 80 58 01 00 00 48 85 c0 74 04 48 8b 40 10 c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 <48> 8b 47 50 48 89 56 10 48 89 4e 18 48 8b 10 48 89 46 08 48 89 16
[15840.839358] cgroup: fork rejected by pids controller in /user.slice/user-1000.slice/[email protected]
[15841.126704] cgroup: fork rejected by pids controller in /user.slice/user-1000.slice/session-2.scope