Quoting: liamdaweUpdate: It seems I've found others also having the same issue: https://forum.planet-nomads.com/threads/2777-EXTREME-PRIORITY-Crash-the-game-when-you-start-a-new-game-or-try-to-start-saving

Seems to happen across Ubuntu, Mint, Arch and possibly others. I found their working database file for saved games, seems to get malformed at somepoint, which seems to be the issue. The root cause though...no idea unless I saw what queries they're doing.

The database is probably not corrupted due to queries (sqlite is a very robust engine) but when the game crashes in the middle of a write. So the first crash is not due to sqlite but every one after that is since the first crash corrupts the database.

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Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: kokoko3kBorderlands 2 great DLC's are on sale too, check it out:
Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep
Captain Scarlett and her Pirate's Booty

Only problem with that game is that it's a huge time sink. Considered buying the Pre Sequal but too afraid of how it will eat away from my other activities :)

My complete play time till now (GOTY edition completed) is of about 2 days (48 hours), and now i've got 2 more DLC's that will take another 20 hours of playtime.
BL2 is the funnies game i've ever played!

PS:
I don't own the presequel, because it seems it was not done by gearbox guys, so it has not the same humor. i'll pass.

122 hours in so far, have completed the story on normal (so 2 more passes if one want to go all the way to ultimate vault hunter) but not all DLC:s yet (since some have just too hard raid bosses for people that play single like me).

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Quoting: kokoko3kBorderlands 2 great DLC's are on sale too, check it out:
Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep
Captain Scarlett and her Pirate's Booty

Only problem with that game is that it's a huge time sink. Considered buying the Pre Sequal but too afraid of how it will eat away from my other activities :)

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Quoting: YoRHa-2B

Quoting: F.UltraSo I take it that DXVK is now DX11 feature complete, this is incredible news!

Not quite, Stream Output is still a big feature that's missing.

Ok so that is not part of the feature level then I suppose? (Or the Wikipedia page is wrong on 11_1 being the highest feature level for DX11).

Anyway, you are far to humble ;)

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QuoteDirect3D Feature Level 11_1 is now supported.

So I take it that DXVK is now DX11 feature complete, this is incredible news!

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Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: Patola

Quoting: jensAs far as I know they announce as soon as they are allowed to. You know what an NDA is?

I will tell you what it is not: it is no excuse from criticisms.

Then you should criticize the one forcing Feral to sign the NDA and not Feral who have no choice what so ever in the matter (other than not signing a NDA and thus not porting the game either).

I think that would be an intentional decision comes from Feral.

Remember they announced Batman Arkham Knight for Mac / Linux and got cancelled?

No the requirement to sign a NDA comes from the publisher. Feral and Linux is the very very small dog in this play so there is just no way that they approach a big publisher like Square with not only the crazy notion of doing a Linux port but also require that Square would sign a NDA not telling any body that Feral is porting a specific game.

It's the publishers that require such a NDA, as for exactly why we can only speculate but considering all the other insane stuff that some publishers are up to I'm not 100% sure that there exists what we would call a logical reason.

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Quoting: DrMcCoyValve is actually paying people to moderate things? Well, there's a first for everything, I guess.

Here's hoping they do it right, but I won't be holding my breath.

Quoting: 0aTTThe game was, of course, immediately banned in Germany

Nope, the game isn't banned in Germany. In fact, Germany (and many places in Europe) is way laxer than the US in terms of nudity and sexuality. The US is kind of...prude.

These games are perfectly fine and not-banned in Germany. They are, however, age-restricted. And there's the rub: it's just that the Steam age gate is, well, useless and not up to the German standards. Regulations in Germany require Valve to verify the age of buyers. Just saying "Yes, I'm 18" is not enough.

One way to do this for digital goods (for physical goods, our postal service offers age verification) would be, I guess, Postident, which is used for opening bank accounts, getting a mobile phone SIM, and things like that.

Yeah Germany is quite strict with their age limits. If a game or film is FSK18 then you have to prove without doubt that you are indeed 18 or over. Have had to mail in a picture of my drivers license on several occasions when ordering DVD:s from Germany and Holland back in the day when I was trying to get hold of some unrated films that where only released cut in my country due to how hostile our censor system was back in the 80:s.

The problem now is that even though we no longer have any censorship of films or games here in Sweden we are such a small market that distributors tend to group us together with the Germans and they sometimes want to get a FSK12 or 16 in order to wider the audience and thus releasing the same cut version also here.

Fun fact is that film censorship started in Germany 1906 due to police reacting to police officers being ridiculed in movies at the time. Here in Sweden it started in 1911 when a police officer (the police again) reacted with disgust on a movie where the kitchen aid was disrespectful to a landlord and woe if this kind of behaviour would get a foothold in the society as a whole... Thankfully the state censor-board got a CEO that had a secret plan to disband the whole thing, which she finally managed to do in 2011 but the last movie that was cut in any way was Casino back in 2009 (so much for the myth that Sweden is run by SJW:s).

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Quoting: Patola

Quoting: jensAs far as I know they announce as soon as they are allowed to. You know what an NDA is?

I will tell you what it is not: it is no excuse from criticisms.

Then you should criticize the one forcing Feral to sign the NDA and not Feral who have no choice what so ever in the matter (other than not signing a NDA and thus not porting the game either).

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Quoting: x_wing

Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: x_wing

Quoting: pete910Wonder if this will fix Dying light for non *butu users ?

And before anyone chimes in with " you just need to add..." They don't work!

DL wasn't working on Ubuntu 18.04 with Mesa 18.1, but using Mesa 18.2RC made it work (for me and many others, I think). So, try to test it and share your results.

I thought the problem with DL was with the new version of glibc?

I heard the same and also thinked that as I found out that the game wasn't working anymore when upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04. Nevertheless, I compiled my self Mesa drivers and made it work (last time I tested I used Mesa 18.02RC3). Not sure if it's glibc the problem, you can see others making it work here: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/901n3l/dying_light_crashing_to_desktop/

About getting the command that Steam runs before starting a game, just set as game start parameters: echo %command%

Worth mention: steam sets a lot of environment variables that let's the steamlib to start (from your user name to game information). You may want to create an script that prints the environment for you (I say this because I assume that you want to run from a terminal "without" steam in the middle, so you must create the env in order to make it work)

EDIT: Also I need to mention that if you want to simply preload glibc on your system, you will be forced to also preload the lib loader (you can find it on /lib/x86-linux-gnu/ld-X.XX.so). The problem with this idea is that older versions of glibc will probably not work with libs linked against a more modern version. This means that you'll be forced to add all your system dependencies linked against this old version. In others words: you may want to create a new libs hierarchy of your target system (maybe docker can help here) and use chroot in order to start using this new hierarchy (of course this is not trivial and will get you some headaches...).

Just don't understand how it could be a mesa problem since I had the same version (18.0.7) on 16.04 where it worked and in 18.04 when it didn't. Then of course those mesa:s could have been compiled differently (one was padoka and the other was Ubuntu stock) which could explain some of it but still...

Best would perhaps be to set up a vm to run DL (if there exists graphic drivers in VM:s these days that are powerfull enough to atleast make the game start) and then incremetnally try each version of glibc between the version from 16.04 up to where it breaks in order to see which patch (if the problem lies in glibc) that makes the game crash. Could be quite some time consuming task though since compiling glibc is probably not a small task.

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Quoting: pete910

Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: x_wing

Quoting: pete910Wonder if this will fix Dying light for non *butu users ?

And before anyone chimes in with " you just need to add..." They don't work!

DL wasn't working on Ubuntu 18.04 with Mesa 18.1, but using Mesa 18.2RC made it work (for me and many others, I think). So, try to test it and share your results.

I thought the problem with DL was with the new version of glibc?

Arrrh that's right, damn!

Quoting: storma

Quoting: x_wing

Quoting: pete910Wonder if this will fix Dying light for non *butu users ?

And before anyone chimes in with " you just need to add..." They don't work!

DL wasn't working on Ubuntu 18.04 with Mesa 18.1, but using Mesa 18.2RC made it work (for me and many others, I think). So, try to test it and share your results.

Just tried with the Arch testing packages.... No go.
I'll look into it a bit more, time permitting.

Looks like it is a glibc issue. :'(

Anyone that knows what kind of magic that Steam adds when running games? I've tried to rename "DyingLightGame" to "DyingLightGame.exe" and then created a small shell script named "DyingLightGame" that just did "./DyingLightGame.exe" as a preparation for doing glibc preload but the game refused to start even with such a basic script (it couldn't find the steam overlay I think it complained about) so it looks like Steam does more than just execute the binary.

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