fair-rose

Road Redemption from Epic Games Store boots to a grey screen, then black, and nothing else happens.

As the title says. Tested on the PS4 via Arch Linux, as well as on my 4th gen i5 laptop under Manjaro. With the recommended default of GE Proton, the game won't launch at all and give a generic Unity Engine error popup that says nothing, just a loading bar.

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fair-roseOP•4w ago

Here are the logs, properly named.

laptop_launch.log

fair-roseOP•4w ago

ps4_launch.log

CommandMC•4w ago

Laptop log:

info:  Found device: Intel(R) HD Graphics 4400 (HSW GT2) ( 0.0.0)
info:    Skipping: Device does not support Vulkan 1.3

info:  Found device: Intel(R) HD Graphics 4400 (HSW GT2) ( 0.0.0)
info:    Skipping: Device does not support Vulkan 1.3

PS4 log:

info:  Found device: AMD Radeon Graphics (RADV LIVERPOOL (LLVM 19.1.7)) (radv 25.0.99)
info:    Skipping: Device does not support required feature 'khrPipelineLibrary' (extension: VK_KHR_pipeline_library)

info:  Found device: AMD Radeon Graphics (RADV LIVERPOOL (LLVM 19.1.7)) (radv 25.0.99)
info:    Skipping: Device does not support required feature 'khrPipelineLibrary' (extension: VK_KHR_pipeline_library)

Laptop needs Proton-Sarek, not sure about the PS4 error. The extension it's complaining about should be optional according to the Wiki

fair-roseOP•4w ago

This one is using Proton-Sarek 10.1, on PS4. On laptop it also launches but then the same random/generic error popup comes up.

ps4_launch2.log

fair-roseOP•4w ago

My other machines are nowhere near as powerful to even attempt this game, my second gen i5 aside but that one has no PSU at the moment, and maybe even Proton-Sarek wouldn't help the Intel HD 2000 in there.

fair-rose•4w ago

HD 2000 too old for community vulkan. 🙁

fair-roseOP•4w ago

Yeah even my 4400 here has partial/unfinished support. And only on Linux. The guys making the drivers on PS4 focus on running modern titles instead of something more realistic, and there haven't been updates in a bit.

CommandMC•4w ago

Ideally re-test with latest Proton-Sarek (right now that's 10-11) Other than that, nothing obvious in there really. I'm inclined not to trust the graphics driver implementation here though

fair-rose•4w ago

Well, if they are focused on vulkan/dx12, then dgvoodoo2 might give you dx7/8/9

fair-roseOP•4w ago

Well, about that... to update Proton-Sarek, GE, and even other stuff I've built on the distro, I need LLVM20, and if I update it will break the custom Mesa.

CommandMC•4w ago

Proton runs in a runtime (that's what umu is for), you should be able to just update it

fair-roseOP•4w ago

I did that with the ones Heroic provides downloads for, and they don't get me into the grey/black screen part. I have the latest GE Proton from Heroic. Believe the logs I sent are using that on both machines.

CommandMC•4w ago

Yes, GE-Proton won't work because DXVK is too new

rival-black•4w ago

Fwiw for some reason HSW sometimes needs d3dcompiler 43 or 47 while others doesnt

fair-roseOP•4w ago

Oh. Oh? Just drop on the game's root or where the exe is and retry? No need to set up dll overrides?

fair-rose•4w ago

winetricks

rival-black•4w ago

Just click to winetricks in game page

fair-roseOP•4w ago

Hmm, okay. I had to do that with Batman Arkham Asylum, doesn't surprise me Well that took forever, and didn't really do anything for the 43 one. Let me try the 47. Tried it on the PS4 too and yeah, my fans kick in and I see a black screen. HDD activity is going but nothing really happens.

fair-roseOP•4w ago

fair-roseOP•4w ago

This is on the laptop On PS4 I don't get that popup and the game tries to load, etc

rival-black•4w ago

Ok but log?

fair-roseOP•4w ago

Oh of course, apologies

rival-black•4w ago

fair-roseOP•4w ago

K08nod6.log

rival-black•4w ago

err:   DxvkMemoryAllocator: Memory allocation failed
err:     Size:      6553600
err:     Alignment: 4096
err:     Mem flags: 0x1
err:     Mem types: 0x3
err:   Heap 0: 1228 MB allocated, 1046 MB used, 1320 MB allocated (driver), 1536 MB budget (driver), 1536 MB total

err:   DxvkMemoryAllocator: Memory allocation failed
err:     Size:      6553600
err:     Alignment: 4096
err:     Mem flags: 0x1
err:     Mem types: 0x3
err:   Heap 0: 1228 MB allocated, 1046 MB used, 1320 MB allocated (driver), 1536 MB budget (driver), 1536 MB total

Goes boom here

fair-roseOP•4w ago

So basically not enough VRAM?

rival-black•4w ago

Yes

fair-roseOP•4w ago

rival-black•4w ago

What is your total system ram?

fair-roseOP•4w ago

I only have 2 GPUs that were given away, both need fan replacements, and the better one is a GTX 550 Ti, not sure how much VRAM that model has. I don't have a PSU to use it with or I'd be on my i5-2310 rig. 6GB. Wish I could max it to 16GB.

rival-black•4w ago

Hmm, then it should have launch actually https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/blob/master/dxvk.conf#L911 Try setting this to 1024 I wonder if game does something weird there that leads to allocating more than it needs

fair-roseOP•4w ago

Unity Engine tends to be the bane of me on any hardware. Wouldn't be surprised. Where's the .conf? Or do I make it myself?

rival-black•4w ago

You make it Next to game exec

fair-roseOP•4w ago

Alright. Do I uncomment or?

rival-black•4w ago

Yes And add 1024

fair-roseOP•4w ago

No need to delete the space too yes?

rival-black•4w ago

Yep It should stay like that

fair-roseOP•4w ago

Well, same issue. And here's the log.

JouyWdo.log

rival-black•4w ago

Are you sure that it applied? Because it still says 1536 mb

fair-roseOP•4w ago

Hmm...

rival-black•4w ago

DXVK_CONFIG_FILE=/your/pathofconffile Sometimes games has multiple execs where real one is somewhere else

fair-roseOP•4w ago

Well there's no other exe in any folder

rival-black•4w ago

Welp, then i have no idea left

fair-roseOP•4w ago

I appreciate your help, and CommandMC's as well If I had those GPUs in working condition I would try on a desktop PC, but that's not happening anytime soon.

rival-black•4w ago

https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/blob/master/dxvk.conf#L198 Do these two 🐸 Maybe it would do something

fair-roseOP•4w ago

Alright I'll report my findings later, I need to get going but again thanks for the help.

rival-black•4w ago

fair-roseOP•4w ago

So I did this just now on the laptop.

l3p5ziD.log

fair-roseOP•4w ago

I made both 1024

fair-rose•4w ago

Hello, has this been solved? I am having the same problem and I'm using a good laptop. It had the issue with ge proton latest, so i downloaded ge proton 8-20 and it worked first launch, then the problem came back. Sorry if a solution was posted up, i dont see it because too many messages.

fair-roseOP•4w ago

It has not, really. It might require some sort of launch parameter, but which, if so?

fair-rose•4w ago

Im running on a Ryzen 7 5800Hs, Radeon Vega 8 500 MB VRAM, 16GB RAM, arch linux btw, if it helps witht he troubleshooting

correct-apricot•4d ago

i switched to GE Proton10-10 and things work now, arch linux, amd gpu proton experimental also works controller doesn't tho, on either of those 2

rival-black•4d ago

PROTON_PREFER_SDL=1 On GE build

rival-black•4d ago

fair-roseOP•3d ago

I honestly gave up, but if anyone else finds this useful, good for them. As it often is, the issue is my lack of specs, or drivers, or both.

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