Are you ready for Valve Index? (1070910)

[Scrumplex]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the tool with compatibility issues: Are you ready for Valve Index?
• Steam AppID of the tool: 1070910

System Information

• GPU: GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
• Driver/LLVM version: nvidia 418.56
• Kernel version: 5.0.10
• Link to full system information report as Gist: https://gist.github.com/Scrumplex/0ff9dbca5e62327824263ecdde4ef55d
• Proton version: 4.2-3

I confirm:

• that I haven't found an existing compatibility report for this game.
• that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available.

steam-1070910.log

Symptoms

Crashes while checking

Reproduction

Click on the check system button.

[kisak-valve]

Unhandled exception: unimplemented function ADVAPI32.dll.EventWriteString called in 32-bit code (0x7bc57021).

[Vash63]

Can duplicate on Arch w/ Nvidia 430.09. Gist: https://gist.github.com/Vash63/2b0bf8495f95385ab2304551e43d8928

[Scrumplex]

@kisak-valve is this really Game compatibility - Unofficial? It is official Valve Software, that claims to be available on Linux

[kisak-valve]

Any game or app run with Proton that has not been whitelisted falls into this general category.

[davidak]

@Scrumplex there is a hint in the description of the app, that it is not compatible with linux, but valve index is.

So i'm wondering why it was not developed plattform independent in the first place?

This seems to be a simple program. Can you please release it under an open source license on github?

[Scrumplex]

Reading this, I assumed that this tool would be compatible, too.

[davidak]

@Scrumplex Yeah, that's a bit misleading. See the tools store page:

[Evernow]

Can confirm I also just crash when checking. My system also meets the minimum requirements: https://gist.github.com/Evernow/16a6f98a39f4a3ddf117f5417b708b4c

[julienbenjamin]

I can confirm as well it crashes on latest Debian stable.

[ryao]

I wrote the following patch, which might fix this, but I am not setup to build proton to be able to test it at the moment:

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/500324802255650816/612507625460072469/wine-Add-EventWriteString-stub.patch

I don't know when I'll do my first proton build to test it. I am linking it here in case anyone wants to try.

[ryao]

I tested the patch by:

1. Dropping it into /etc/portage/patches/app-emulation/wine-vanilla-9999 on Gentoo Linux.
2. Running EGIT_OVERRIDE_REPO_WINE=https://github.com/ValveSoftware/wine.git EGIT_OVERRIDE_BRANCH_WINE=proton_4.11 EGIT_OVERRIDE_COMMIT_WINE=aebdb22bb57128a5f38cd07d3952f1eb62e44817 ebuild $(equery which -m app-emulation/wine-vanilla) compile
3. Copying /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/wine-vanilla-9999/work/wine-9999-abi_x86_32.x86/dlls/advapi32/advapi32.dll.so to ${HOME}/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Proton 4.11/dist/lib/wine/advapi32.dll.so to replace the stock proton version.
4. Running Are you ready for Valve Index?.

Here is the result:

I will send the patch to the wine developers later. I will open a pull request for ValveSoftware/Wine when I do.

[ryao]

steam-1070910.log

Also, here is the proton log from the patched proton 4.11-2.

[ryao]

I have opened a pull request with the patch. I have also submitted (a rebased version) to upstream wine.

[ryao]

The patch is now in Wine:

wine-mirror/wine@8d55542

If it is not in a backport to proton 4.11, it will be in the next proton branch. However, I have been told in IRC that a backport was likely after it was merged to wine. Hopefully, this will be fixed in proton 4.11-3.

[ryao]

It is confirmed that this will be fixed in Proton 4.11-3:

ValveSoftware/wine#63 (comment)

[ryao]

@kisak-valve Would you be willing to mark this issue fixed after proton 4.11-3 is released so that a new issue could be filed for the USB 3.0 detection bug that the original crashing issue hid? It would be nice to clean up the tracker by letting a new issue track the USB 3.0 detection problem.

[ryao]

@kisak-valve My patch got pulled into the repository in time for the Proton 4.11-3 release:

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/wine/commits/proton_4.11

I can confirm that the crash issue is fixed now.

[davidak]

It crashes again with Proton 4.11-7 on my Thinkpad with i5 integrated GPU.

https://gist.github.com/davidak/00772774092a2b7364d46f0e734670c2

Can you reproduce this? Maybe it's just intel graphics and not with dedicated gpus?

[kisak-valve]

Hello @davidak, wine: Call from 0x7bc77ee9 to unimplemented function ADVAPI32.dll.EventWriteString, aborting looks like the line of interest from your log.

[aeikum]

My mistake. Will fix in the next release.

[aeikum]

Should be working again in 4.11-8.

[davidak]

The game starts and runs now, but does not work correctly.

The OS is NixOS 21.11 (Beta), the RAM is 32 GB + 32 GB SWAP, the CPU has 8 cores + hyperthreading (i9), the GPU is actually called AMD RX 480 und the system actually has USB 3. So each value could be more specific.

And the Valve Index works great!