Are all linux users having this showstopper bug - or is just me?

[Roshko]

This is my DLC-content

It's great content. kinda sucks not being able to play it though

 

Edited July 3, 2022 by acebone

[Asgar]

why do people have to be so melodramatic... ffs let steam repair and enjoy the game. are you that desperate for attention? 

Edited July 3, 2022 by Asgar

[Roshko]

3 minutes ago, Asgar said:

why do people have to be so melodramatic... ffs let steam repair and enjoy the game. are you that desperate for attention? 

 

There's been two steam-updates and one game update AFTER the bug. It doesn't seem to be adressed yet? How the f*** can I enjoy a game that is not running? I am not seeking attention, I'm seeking gameplay. If you don't have any input to the discussion, other than belittling others, you might ask yourself if this is the right forum for you?

Edited July 3, 2022 by acebone

[Asgar]

neither a steam update or a game update replaces reparing your install... so why don't you just do that... as i have told you

[Fritz_X]

Looks like a file has been corrupted. Just run the integrated file validation just as Asgar suggested and you should be fine again.

 

I'm not on my computer right now, but you should find the validation option by right-clicking on the IL-2 entry in your Steam games list, then clicking on 'properties' and in there you should find the file validation. Run it and Steam will automatically check your IL-2 install for corrupted files, replacing them with proper ones on the fly.

Edited July 3, 2022 by Fritz_X

[Roshko]

Asgar, I'm not sure what you are on about. To my knowledge you've told me nothing. I suppose you are talking about properties->localfiles-> verify integrity of files - which I did. It does not solve the problem. If you are thinking about another procedure, please let me know - and try to relax a little will ya?
 

Fritz_X - thnx man, I have done so already. The DEFWHITE.BMP is a 1x1 white pixel - it's not corrupted, and the "verify files" does not fix the problem.

Edited July 3, 2022 by acebone

[Fritz_X]

11 minutes ago, acebone said:

Fritz_X - thnx man, I have done so already. The DEFWHITE.BMP is a 1x1 white pixel - it's not corrupted, and the "verify files" does not fix the problem.

 

That's strange, indeed.

 

Crazy suggestion: Do you have located said file? If yes, delete it manually (create a copy of it on your desktop beforehand, just in case) and then run the file integrity check one more time. Maybe it'll recognize the missing file an create a new, uncorrupted one.

[firdimigdi]

If you are playing on a gaming laptop make sure to use the "high performance" discrete GPU and not the integrated one.

If not then things to check:

1. GPU drivers - a clean re-install could help
2. Install/repair the directx runtime https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35
3. purging the shader cache (for nVidia cards it's found in %localappdata%\NVIDIA\DXCache ), doing (1) would do this anyway
4. If all that doesn't help then checking dxdiag for any errors

In any case, so you don't end up spinning your wheels chasing the wrong thing: it's not a game issue - this is a problem on your system.

[Roshko]

Fritz_X. I did locate the file, and I am currently doing the looong version of your suggestion. I've uninstalled the game and I'm currently re-installing ( 60 GBs )

Firdimigdi - I'm on Linux. To the best of my knowledge we all have this problem, but when the re-install of the game is completed, I'll check your suggestions (translated to linux) if things still aren't working - thnx

 

[firdimigdi]

8 minutes ago, acebone said:

Firdimigdi - I'm on Linux. To the best of my knowledge we all have this problem, but when the re-install of the game is completed, I'll check your suggestions (translated to linux) if things still aren't working - thnx

 

Well that's quite a crucial point that was missing from your initial post though, no? In fact if all of the Linux players are having this problem you'd be better off starting a topic with "Linux players are encountering this d3d_error" as subject in the bug report forum.

[Roshko]

Firdimingi - yes, that was my mistake, I should've mentioned. Changed the subject title as pr. your suggestion

Edited July 3, 2022 by acebone

[Jason_Williams]

Guys,

 

We also don't officially support Linux, only Windows. Play using Linux at your work risk. Just a reminder.

 

Jason

[Roshko]

3 hours ago, Jason_Williams said:

Guys,

 

We also don't officially support Linux, only Windows. Play using Linux at your work risk. Just a reminder.

 

Jason

I know - I know ... gotta ask somewhere for help. Nothing seems to be happening at the steam side as far as I can tell.

[CountZero]

maybe you can try changing game preset to lowest posible, open startup.cfg and set preset = 0 for start

[JG13_opcode]

E_INVALIDARG means a Direct3D function was given an invalid argument.  This is probably a subtle bug that manifests itself on Linux.

 

See here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/direct3d11/d3d11-graphics-reference-returnvalues

 

Which distro are you running, and are you using wine DLLs for D3D?  Mesa?  Please post your driver version as well.

 

Try changing the permissions of that file to 777 and see what happens.

Edited July 4, 2022 by JG13_opcode

[firdimigdi]

From what I can see there's already a report about this on Proton's github:

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/3106#issuecomment-1152661992

 

12 hours ago, CountZero said:

maybe you can try changing game preset to lowest posible, open startup.cfg and set preset = 0 for start

 

Or just try different presets if you are already on the lowest one. Perhaps you'll luck out and after a certain one the parameters passed to the texture loading function are supported until a proton dev makes a workaround/patch for the unsupported call.

[Roshko]

Thanks guys!

So far I've re-installed completely (took some time due to the download-size), the error persists. I'll investigate your suggestions ASAP.
 

Firdimigdi: yes, I've found that bugreport too. To be honest I get a little confused by github. The bug is "closed" and seems to have been moved to another section in the "bug-tree". It seems rather low activity to me, like nothing is actually going on.

JG13_opcode: Some info:
Ubuntu 22.04 (fully updated)
NVIDIA-driver (metapackage) 510
Kernel: 5.15.0-40-generic

All DLLs etc ... are whatever Steam installed.

CountZero: I'll be trying that tip out today - also I'll be testing different versions of the Proton-engine

I'll return as soon as I have any new experiences to share

THANKS AGAIN GUYS ❤️

Edited July 4, 2022 by acebone

[IckyATLAS]

As an outsider to Linux as I have only used Windows and Mac OS, It seems to me that Linux is very complicated and you have to take care of a lot of the innards to the OS to just keep it alive. I did one try years ago but compared to a Windows installation it was too much for me. I was told that it was excellent for servers, but that is more a professional use where you have dedicated IT specialists that manage the stuff, but for us just mere users it seems one of these two main OS are the best choice and for gamers Windows is most probably the best platform. I do not mention here which version as some versions of Windows were very bad indeed. 

[Roshko]

ok

different levels of "preset" in startup.cfg has no positive effect
tried all proton versions from 5.13 thru 7.03 no effect.

I'll have to investigate further ...
 

[KevPBur]

Just a guess as you say the image is in the location specified but the game can't open it.

Perhaps something wrong with the bmp format options for Ubuntu? If the image is a simple white square maybe try recreating the file on your pc and replace the one in the game. It may take a bit of trial and error with some of the options.

Even if this works it may only move you forward to the next image it doesn't like but at least you will be closer to understanding the issue.

 

 

[Roshko]

1 hour ago, IckyATLAS said:

As an outsider to Linux as I have only used Windows and Mac OS, It seems to me that Linux is very complicated and you have to take care of a lot of the innards to the OS to just keep it alive. I did one try years ago but compared to a Windows installation it was too much for me. I was told that it was excellent for servers, but that is more a professional use where you have dedicated IT specialists that manage the stuff, but for us just mere users it seems one of these two main OS are the best choice and for gamers Windows is most probably the best platform. I do not mention here which version as some versions of Windows were very bad indeed. 

Nah - keeping Linux alive is no hassle at all. When there's an important update you get a prompt, click ok, and it goes away again and updates your system fully, without interrupting you in anything you do. Where it gets complicated is when you take a piece of software written for Windows and try to run it on linux. I have NEVER had any trouble with Il-2 on linux before, it has always just worked.

I am hoping that Steam - who are investing heavily in linux-compatibility - will iron this bug out at some point. Meanwhile I am grounded, which is bad timing for me: I just talked to an old friend - none of us knew that we're both Il-2 nerds, so now we wanna fly together It also turns out that he has the certificate, so tomorrow ... HE IS TALKIING ME WITH HIM IN A DIAMOND-40 ?

Sometime tomorrow, this will be my 'office' for a few hours ❤️
http://www.oy-reg.dk/billeder/l18024.jpg

Edited July 4, 2022 by acebone

[Roshko]

1 hour ago, KevPBur said:

Just a guess as you say the image is in the location specified but the game can't open it.

Perhaps something wrong with the bmp format options for Ubuntu? If the image is a simple white square maybe try recreating the file on your pc and replace the one in the game. It may take a bit of trial and error with some of the options.

Even if this works it may only move you forward to the next image it doesn't like but at least you will be closer to understanding the issue.

 

 

There should not be any difference in a BMP file on any systems. People much smarter than me seems to agree that somewhere along the line a 64-bit entity is passed as returnvalue to a 32-bit function. A .NET incompatibility of some sorts ...

UPDATE - HOLY MOLY - IT SEEMS TO WORK!

I will now be creating the other missing files!

42 minutes ago, acebone said:

 

Jeez - there's a lot. I'll try my hand at scripting something ...

Ok - the second file that the system complains about is called DUDV.dds - and I haven't got that file at all ... In fact I haven't got a single .dds file - they may be generated on the fly. But the game-interface loads, and it will even let me start the loading of a quick-mission. It complains multiple times with the same error on different files and it will not start the simulation, just hangs on the loading screen.


 

Edited July 4, 2022 by acebone

[Roshko]

It is also complaining about missing BMP files - and the odd thing is, they are really missing. A file-integrity check through steam reports that everything is ok ....

Like this one: I haven't even got a "SKY" folder in the "GRAPHICS" folder ....

 

STATUS: KevPBurs suggestion to convert the first problematic file 'DEFWHITE.BMP' to BMP (but doing it on linux) solved a bit of the problems. The game now loads, with several error-prompts like the above. I can even tell it to start a quick-mission, which it will attempt. The attempt causes more error-prompts and the loading screen will hang, never entering the actual simulation. There are a lot of files being complained about, and a lot of them are actually missing from my system. A file-integrity check through Steam however, reports that all files seem to be present and uncorrupted.

Edited July 4, 2022 by acebone

[firdimigdi]

35 minutes ago, acebone said:

Ok - the second file that the system complains about is called DUDV.dds - and I haven't got that file at all ...

 

Loaded from the .gtp archive most likely.

[Roshko]

On 7/4/2022 at 1:46 PM, Firdimigdi said:

 

Loaded from the .gtp archive most likely.

GTP seems to be associated with Gimp Tool Presets and Guitartab-files ...  Amiga Powerpack files as well - I find various info on Google on that file-extension, but nothing that seems to concern itself with compressed graphics. Do you know anything more about the format? Maybe I could unpack them and repack them on linux and have things working better than now?

My regular file-compression tools won't recognize it ... or maybe they are so large that I need to wait a little - nope, no luck

Edited July 7, 2022 by acebone

[IckyATLAS]

2 hours ago, acebone said:

HE IS TALKIING ME WITH HIM IN A DIAMOND-40 ?

Have fun. I flew with the Diamond 40 many years ago when we bought one in our Flight Club. It was our first "modern" all composite (we said plastic) airplane with a Thielert diesel engine. I have good memories of very "zen" flights. Excellent visibility and the diesel engine was turbo-compounded and did not loose power with altitude. It had low consumption and was less expensive to maintain.  The plane was ideal for calm flights in the Alps. You had the feeling of flying more of a powered glider. 

[firdimigdi]

12 minutes ago, acebone said:

GTP seems to be associated with Gimp Tool Presets and Guitartab-files ...  Amiga Powerpack files as well - I find various info on Google on that file-extension, but nothing that seems to concert itself with compressed graphics. Do you know anything more about the format? Maybe I could unpack them and repack them on linux and have things working better than now?

 

.gtp is the custom format of the game's packages, almost all its resources are in there and not in loose files. You can unpack them with the UnGTP utility floating around somewhere in these forums.

[Roshko]

it's here http://www.mediafire.com/file/caxpalaudz1hd47/unGTP-IL2.zip/file  

It's a commandline utility - I tried extracting the Sky.GTS and put it's content exactly where the game complains they're not. Still got that error. I can't know for certain that I've used the right path, because the path in the errormsg is not absolute. Maybe the files are unpacked in some tmp-dir somewhere, or perhaps not being able to extract the archive itself, the game throws an errormsg saying it can't find the unpacked file, because it couldn't extract the gtp-file. Dunno. But the simple solution doesn't seem to work.

I don't know what compression algorithm is used, but it is not recognized by the archive-software I have, and I don't think unGTP will pack files, only extract them?

I'm close - but not close enough

[firdimigdi]

For what it's worth: unpacking the whole game won't get you anywhere, unless you can make sense of the stack trace of the crash and deal with it in proton the you need to wait on a proton contributor to implement some sort of workaround as it seems they often do.

[Roshko]

19 minutes ago, Firdimigdi said:

For what it's worth: unpacking the whole game won't get you anywhere, unless you can make sense of the stack trace of the crash and deal with it in proton the you need to wait on a proton contributor to implement some sort of workaround as it seems they often do.

No I figured as much, the plan was to extract and then recompress - but that's no good either, because I haven't got a clue on how to recompress them - it's not zip (or perhaps not just zip). I figured I might as well just try the unpacked files, alas - as expected - no result.

[JG13_opcode]

Seems like the files aren't being extracted properly, which is why the game can't load them.

 

I still think it's an access violation or similar.  Do you have SELinux installed?

 

Edit: never mind, found the GitHub issue report

Edited July 4, 2022 by JG13_opcode

[Roshko]

I'm on Ubuntu 22.04 - but I've given up. I am now just waiting for the steam-devs to fix it ... too bad, I have time for flying these days

BTW - flew in the Diamond 40 over Denmark yesterday - it was sweeeeet. Had tendency to nautia right after takeoff, but it soon vaned. Even got to fly it a bit myself ?