Confirmed Faces are distorted, huge cheekbones

[tored950]

Short summary of your issue
Faces on portraits are distorted, huge cheekbones

Game Version
version 1.2.2 (Argent)

What OS are you playing on?
Linux PoP!_OS 20.10

What platform are you using?
Steam

Do you have mods enabled?
No

Have you tried verifying your game files (Steam only)?
Yes

How much "pain" is this causing you?
2

Please explain the issue you experienced in the most condensed way possible
When viewing a character's portrait some of them has distorted faces, huge cheekbones. It is a graphics rendering problem.
See attached image.

Please explain how to reproduce the issue
Start CK3: 3 characters standing to the right of the game menu, woman on the left has distorted face.

Start new game: faces of these characters are distorted

867 The Great Adventurers
Count Eudes
Almos Arpad
Daurama Daura

867 The Carolingians
Ludwig the German
Prince Karlmann
King Louis II
Charles the Bald

1066 The Fate of England
King Harold of England

1066 Rag to Riches
Duke Vratislav
Duchess Matilda

1066 Iberia in Pieces
King Antso IV
King Sancho II

Custom game
Multiple characters

Is there anything else you think could help us identify/replicate the issue?
When playing in Windows 10 with the same machine I don't have this issue.
I guess this is Linux issue. My graphics card is an AMD Radeon R9 280X.
Have the same problems with both radeon driver and the amdgpu driver.
Tested both high and low graphics settings within the game.

I have attached a save game
No

Linux kernel
x86_64 Linux 5.8.0-7630-generic

lspci
VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Tahiti XT [Radeon HD 7970/8970 OEM / R9 280X]
Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Tahiti XTL [Radeon R9 280X OC]
Kernel driver in use: amdgpu
Kernel modules: radeon, amdgpu

 

[smilpent]

I have this problem as well:

Facial textures look like the attached images.

linux, tried kernels from 4.89 to 5.10.12
AMD R9 390
amdgpu
With or without vulkan
With or without proton
No mods, reinstalling and removing all local config file etc did not help, neither did installing on a different disk. Downgrading to earlier version does not help, but I played a bit at launch, and it looked normal then.

Edit: I've attached a save game.

 

[smilpent]

I tried downgrading to an earlier version of Mesa (20.2.6, stable), but no dice. I'm at a loss here at what has changed. Sadly makes it unplayable for me atm.

 

[SavvyLad]

Dude this is the most hilarious glitch I have ever seen. Devs please save these poor Linux players!

 

[andreashappe]

Just a "me too": I have the same problem using Ubuntu 2020.10 with an AMD 280x. The problem exists when using either the radeon or amdgpu driver. I do own a laptop (fedora, intel gpu) there it works flawlessly. When ck3 came out, I did not have this problem.. this prevented me from playing as it kills the immersion.

 

[tored950]

Lord of the Rings crossover. See attachment.

 

[andreashappe]

I see the crossover (;

But to give an update: I've updated my ubuntu desktop to latest mesa (ubuntu oibaf repository) and faces seem to work again..

 

[tored950]

Oh, nice. I'm on latest Ubuntu Desktop now too. Tried

sudo add-apt-repository ppaibaf/graphics-drivers
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

and deleted different steam and paradox caches, but didn't make any difference. Did you install anything else from oibaf?

 

[andreashappe]

hm , nope that worked for me (I am currently not at my desktop system). I am using the radeon driver (with my amd r280x) and Ubuntu 20.10 (not 21.04 yet). Everything else should be standard..

 

[smilpent]

I'm using the latest mesa driver, and things are sadly still borked. I tried one of the full makeover mods - Otaku Kings III - before the latest update, and it came out even worse, with characters looking like bare-bone models; mannequins.

 

[Countess of Bohemia]

Hi everyone,

Could you please confirm whether this issue still persists in the version 1.3.1?

Thanks a lot!

 

[smilpent]

Yes, the problem persists in 1.3.1:

 

[Countess of Bohemia]

Hello everyone,

Thank you for reporting this issue! We have added it to our database and will investigate further.

Cheers!

 

[tored950]

It works for me now.

short story

install steam as a deb package (not flatpak) och use oibaf PPA for latest drivers

long story

In my latest distro hopping I'm now on Ubuntu MATE 20.10. For compositor with MATE I'm using compton with the OpenGL backend. This made CK3 randomly crash with this string spamming in syslog "[drm:amdgpu_gem_va_ioctl [amdgpu]] *ERROR* Couldn't update BO_VA (-16)" .So probably a problem with CK3 combined with compton and OpenGL.

However I have played CK3 without crashing with other compositors like compiz (Unity) and mutter (Gnome) and I usually play CK3 in windowed mode, so the compositors wouldn't have been disabled (I think).

In an effort to remove things that could be a potential problem I started to remove Steam as a flatpak package and installed it as a deb package. And then installed the oibaf PPA. I don't experience any crashes now and the faces are now rendered correctly. I still run with compton with the OpenGL backend and ck3 in windowed mode.

 

[Bartf$]

It works for me now.

short story

install steam as a deb package (not flatpak) och use oibaf PPA for latest drivers

long story

In my latest distro hopping I'm now on Ubuntu MATE 20.10. For compositor with MATE I'm using compton with the OpenGL backend. This made CK3 randomly crash with this string spamming in syslog "[drm:amdgpu_gem_va_ioctl [amdgpu]] *ERROR* Couldn't update BO_VA (-16)" .So probably a problem with CK3 combined with compton and OpenGL.

However I have played CK3 without crashing with other compositors like compiz (Unity) and mutter (Gnome) and I usually play CK3 in windowed mode, so the compositors wouldn't have been disabled (I think).

In an effort to remove things that could be a potential problem I started to remove Steam as a flatpak package and installed it as a deb package. And then installed the oibaf PPA. I don't experience any crashes now and the faces are now rendered correctly. I still run with compton with the OpenGL backend and ck3 in windowed mode.

Worked for me too!!! Thank You I tried many things and nothing worked out this issue (specialy crashes).

 

[smilpent]

Did not help me, as I'm not using a flatpak for Steam.

 

[smilpent]

The latest mesa drivers (21.1.0_rc3) finally resolved the issue for me.