Problems on Linux

[wtry]

I've been gaming on Linux for a while, and I've only had problems with Paradox Games. While HOI4 and City Skylines worked fine, CK3 and Victoria 3 have both never launched for me. I've heard CK3 has had memory leak issues, but Victoria 3 has no documented problems, so I'm confident these issues can be resolved. After Vic3 hanging on the loading screen for an infinite amount of time, I decided to launch it from the terminal to see what was going on, and this is all that was logged in the terminal after ~10 minutes. Can anyone help?


heres what the terminal said

[S_API] SteamAPI_Init(): Loaded '/home/wtry/.local/share/Steam/linux64/steamclient.so' OK.
Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 529340
SteamInternal_SetMinidumpSteamID: Caching Steam ID: 76561199070537873 [API loaded no]
Warning: 1 log categories not defined
performance

Fossilize INFO: Overriding serialization path: "/home/wtry/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/shadercache/529340/fozpipelinesv6/steamapprun_pipeline_cache".
IPC function call IClientFriends::SetRichPresence took too long: 145 msec


I don't know which of these logs is most important, and the forum wont let me link anything, so just ask and I'll give you any log you ask for

 

[wtry]

Also, to give context, I'm trying Vic3 out so I see if I wanna buy it after the free period thing.

 

[AndrewT]

I'm not aware of a proven memory leak in CK3, but even if there were that wouldn't prevent the game from launching at all. Your problem is elsewhere I am sure.


I've seen two common issues with our games under Linux:
One is if you've used the Snap or Flatpack installs of Steam, which do not work well with our games. You need to use the native Linux client from Valve:
http://store.steampowered.com/about/
"Install Steam Now"


The other is an issue with Steam when you have Proton installed; Steam sometimes thinks you have the game on Windows, not Linux, so it installs the wrong version. If you see hoi4.exe (ie, the Windows executable) in your Steam folder for this game, that is the problem!
You can get past that as described here:
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...ork-linux-compatibility.1623688/post-29408827


If those aren't the problem,
Please attach here your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Victoria3/pdx_settings.json .
From your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Victoria3/logs/ folder, attach here system.log , error.log
From your Documents/Paradox Interactive/Victoria3/crashes/ folder, attach here the latest (only!) exceptions.txt

Also in Steam please click on Steam-Help-System Info, and paste everything there into a text file and attach that here.

 

[wtry]

Here you are! There was no exceptions.txt

 

[wtry]

here is the same thing for ck3 (system.log is empty)

 

[SkultAurora]

From your error.log:

[19:50:33][gfx_vk_master_context.cpp:2350]: Gfx error: _Queue.submit( SubmitInfo, Fence ) returned: ErrorOutOfHostMemory

This hints that you are out of VRAM. And indeed, "system stuff.txt" shows that you have integrated GPU (=weak, uses RAM for its memory) that grabs 512MB from 8GB of total RAM. This is not enough for running Vic3 (Steam lists 8GB RAM + 2GB VRAM as minimal, your 7 + 0.5 are well below that).

 

[wtry]

I have 20GB of swap, does that not work with VIC3?

 

[wtry]

Also, I tried the same thing on a T430 with 12gb of ram, and I got the same error, and in CK3 on both system.s

 

[SkultAurora]

Assuming T430 is a Lenovo laptop, it should have Intel HD Graphics 3000 (or 4000) both of which are also below minimum specs.

"Hanging on the loading screen for infinite amount of time" does look like extensive use of swap, but if it always prints the same gfx error, I can only conclude that even swap doesn't save the game from underspec GPU. One more thing to try is to open pdx_settings.json file and set all graphics quality related stuff to "low" if they are not already.

 

[wtry]

thanks