Crashes to Desktop [GOG; Linux]

[Dorzalty]

Crashes to Desktop [GOG; Linux]

Hello,

I have been trying to get the GOG Linux version of Witcher 2 Enhanced Edition to work properly for four days now. At first I was having dependency issues but I managed to solve those (a fault largely of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS being a dork) and began playing. I was having a lot of fun, and didn't expect the game to run so well on my r9 280 (almost identical to Windows performance). However I soon encountered an issue that I haven't been able to solve.

In the prologue I crash to the desktop each and every time I get to the streets during the quest "To the Temple". No errors or anything. It just crashes. I have tried setting my settings to as low as they could, creating a new save and even redownloading the .sh multiple times to do a reinstall. But it happens in the exact spot over and over again.

Here is an image of the spot that it occurs:

Spoiler

So whenever I go down the hill, three-four seconds later I crash. I've tried also hurrying to the buildings and try to enter them, hoping it will help, but it forces an instant crash.

Some information on my system:

I5-4670k (Not oc'd)
R9 280 (Not oc'd) + using the latest AMD Linux drivers
8GB of RAM (Not oc'd)
Witcher 2 version is stated in the file "gameinfo" to be "The Witcher 2: Assassins Of Kings - Enhanced Edition
2.2.0.8 Release 3 (20150306204412)"

Terminal Commands:

Underdead@Garden:~$ uname -a
Linux Garden 3.16.0-46-generic #62~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Aug 11 16:27:16 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Underdead@Garden:~/GOG Games/The Witcher 2 Assassins Of Kings Enhanced Edition/game$ ldd witcher2 | grep not
Underdead@Garden:~/GOG Games/The Witcher 2 Assassins Of Kings Enhanced Edition/game$
(returned nothing...so no problems?)
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If there are other commands needed to be run that will help, please state so and I shall run them.

Thanks! Hopefully someone can help me out here.

 

[Gilrond-i-Virdan]

@Dorzalty: Welcome to the forum! Good to see more Linux gamers who play Witcher games.

Some report frequent crashes when there are too many save files. May be your game tries to autosave at that point? Try to back up your saves and delete them and see if it happens again.

Also, it can be Catalyst specific. Are you using the latest release from GOG? You can also report your bug here: https://github.com/virtual-programming/witcher2-linux

That's where developers of the Linux version actually monitor bugs.

 

[Dorzalty]

@Dorzalty : Welcome to the forum! Good to see more Linux gamers who play Witcher games.

Some report frequent crashes when there are too many save files. May be your game tries to autosave at that point? Try to back up your saves and delete them and see if it happens again.

Also, it can be Catalyst specific. Are you using the latest release from GOG? You can also report your bug here: https://github.com/virtual-programming/witcher2-linux

That's where developers of the Linux version actually monitor bugs.

Hello and thanks for the welcome!

I love Linux. I use it for everything.

I only have one autosave and one save file, but I will try the backup option for the autosave and attempt to play again. As for the latest release from GOG, I believe so. I went to my Library and downloaded the .sh they had there. I've tried this three times and the issue persists. The GOG sh autopatches, right? Or am I supposed to patch it myself?

Ah, I had no idea they had an official github. I will go there next to make the report. Forgive me for asking though...how do I report the bug? Is creating a thread on their github the same as reporting the bug or do I have to file something to do that?

Thank you for the help,

P.S
I like the avatar. That's Quenya, right?

 

[Gilrond-i-Virdan]

@Dorzalty: If you are using the .sh installer you should have the latest version already. And since you don't have many saves it's not that issue which I mentioned. Must be something related to the driver. Did you try tweaking your graphics settings? May be play around with different options and see if that crash persists. I suspect it's Catalyst problem (just to be sure you are using Catalyst or open radeon/ Mesa driver)?

To file a bug just head to https://github.com/virtual-programming/witcher2-linux/issues and click "New Issue". Provide some details and possibly run logs for developers there. The Linux version was made by Virtual Programming and it's using eON wrapper. So it's not a complete rewrite of the engine, they use their own DirectX → OpenGL translation, similar to what Wine does.

I love Linux. I use it for everything.

That's great! There are a few Linux related threads here, for example check out these:

http://forums.cdprojektred.com/threads/16842-Gaming-on-Linux-news-and-developments
http://forums.cdprojektred.com/threads/21058-Multi-platform-support-of-CDPR-Games-(Linux-Mac-OSX-and-etc-)

I like the avatar. That's Quenya, right?

That's actually Sindarin, using Tengwar in mode of Beleriand.

 

[Dorzalty]

@Dorzalty : If you are using the .sh installer you should have the latest version already. And since you don't have many saves it's not that issue which I mentioned. Must be something related to the driver. Did you try tweaking your graphics settings? May play around with different options and see if that crash persist. I suspect it's Catalyst problem (just to be sure you are using Catalyst or open radeon/ Mesa driver)?

To file a bug just head to https://github.com/virtual-programming/witcher2-linux/issues and click "New Issue". Provide some details and possibly run logs for developers there. The Linux version was made by Virtual Programming and it's using eON wrapper. So it's not a complete rewrite of the engine, they use their own DirectX → OpenGL translation, similar to what Wine does.

The open source drivers, the ones available in Additional Drivers, made my system very unstable. So in order to fix it, I had to use this: http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/latest-linux-beta-driver.aspx

I have tried changing my Catalyst Control Center settings, but nothing in there stops the crashes. Interestingly though, if I turn the game to windowed mode, on its lowest settings, and then set the resolution to the lowest it can go I can get by the scene until I get to the bridge just a bit ahead, then it will crash just like the previous one. I'll be sure to include it in the report when I make it.

That's great! There are a few Linux related threads here, for example check out these:

http://forums.cdprojektred.com/threads/16842-Gaming-on-Linux-news-and-developments
http://forums.cdprojektred.com/threads/21058-Multi-platform-support-of-CDPR-Games-(Linux-Mac-OSX-and-etc-)

http://forums.cdprojektred.com/threads/21058-Multi-platform-support-of-CDPR-Games-(Linux-Mac-OSX-and-etc-)

I'll start reading the threads next, thank you!

That's actually Sindarin, using Tengwar in mode of Beleriand.

Ah! I always mix them up. I've been meaning to learn one of them, just gotta find a resource to do so. It is a beautiful conlang.

 

[Gilrond-i-Virdan]

@Dorzalty: Yeah, that sounds like Catalyst issue for sure. I hope developers can help you with it. I personally use Nvidia

Some more Linux threads here (formatting can be messed up because forum stopped keeping code block end-lines):

http://forums.cdprojektred.com/threads/16917-How-to-run-GOG-DosBox-games-on-Linux
http://forums.cdprojektred.com/threads/31794-How-to-run-GOG-Amiga-games-on-Linux

---------- Updated at 11:13 PM ----------

This might be related or similar crash: https://github.com/virtual-programming/witcher2-linux/issues/34