Aliens: Colonial Marines (49540)

[redpiller]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Aliens: Colonial Marines
• Steam AppID of the game: 49540

System Information

Computer Information:
    Manufacturer:  Unknown
    Model:  Unknown
    Form Factor: Desktop
    No Touch Input Detected

Processor Information:
    CPU Vendor:  GenuineIntel
    CPU Brand:         Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz
    CPU Family:  0x6
    CPU Model:  0x2d
    CPU Stepping:  0x6
    CPU Type:  0x0
    Speed:  3300 Mhz
    16 logical processors
    8 physical processors
    HyperThreading:  Supported
    FCMOV:  Supported
    SSE2:  Supported
    SSE3:  Supported
    SSSE3:  Supported

    SSE4a:  Unsupported
    SSE41:  Supported
    SSE42:  Supported
    AES:  Supported
    AVX:  Supported
    AVX2:  Unsupported
    AVX512F:  Unsupported
    AVX512PF:  Unsupported
    AVX512ER:  Unsupported
    AVX512CD:  Unsupported
    AVX512VNNI:  Unsupported
    SHA:  Unsupported
    CMPXCHG16B:  Supported
    LAHF/SAHF:  Supported
    PrefetchW:  Unsupported

Operating System Version:
    Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) (64 bit)
    Kernel Name:  Linux
    Kernel Version:  4.19.0-8-amd64
    X Server Vendor:  The X.Org Foundation
    X Server Release:  12004000
    X Window Manager:  KWin
    Steam Runtime Version:  steam-runtime_0.20200318.2

Video Card:
    Driver:  NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 760/PCIe/SSE2
    Driver Version:  4.6.0 NVIDIA 440.59
    OpenGL Version: 4.6
    Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
    Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
    VendorID:  0x10de
    DeviceID:  0x1187
    Revision Not Detected
    Number of Monitors:  1
    Number of Logical Video Cards:  1
    Primary Display Resolution:  1920 x 1080
    Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080
    Primary Display Size: 23.62" x 13.39" (27.13" diag)
                                            60.0cm x 34.0cm (68.9cm diag)
    Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
    Primary VRAM: 2048 MB
    Supported MSAA Modes:  2x 4x 8x 16x 

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.

Symptoms

Game freshly installed with all DLCs
Process dies in the background almost immediately after start
Funny thing is acording the winehq the game should work with wine-staging
see those winehq entries

Reproduction

Start the game

Log File

steam-49540.log.zip

[kisak-valve]

Hello @redpiller, looks like this game uses CEG (#753).

[redpiller]

Hello @redpiller, looks like this game uses CEG (#753).

Since it's valve's DRM, is there any work being done to incorporate CEG into proton ?

[Newbytee]

Hello @redpiller, looks like this game uses CEG (#753).

Since it's valve's DRM, is there any work being done to incorporate CEG into proton ?

See this: #753 (comment)

[redpiller]

Hello @redpiller, looks like this game uses CEG (#753).

Since it's valve's DRM, is there any work being done to incorporate CEG into proton ?

See this: #753 (comment)

k so at the moment 2 options are relevant

1. use a wine prefix with a soft link to the game to reduce memory footprint (i do it right now)

2. use proton from command line to launch steam for windows.

it's not ideal but i can live with that.

[arne-fuchs]

So is there a guide? I dont know how to do any of that

[AwesamLinux]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Aliens: Colonial Marines
• Steam AppID of the game: 49540

System Information

• GPU: AMD Radeon RX 5700
• Driver/LLVM version: Mesa 21.2.4 - kisak-mesa PPA
• Kernel version: 5.11.0-38-generic
• Proton version: proton experimental-6.3-20211027

Symptoms

Game launches and is playable now out of the box with Proton Experimental

The only remaining minor issue I'm seeing is that when launching the game it is minimized/opens up in the background. So have to manually bring up the game from the taskbar or alt+tab to it.

steam-49540.log
system_info.txt

[thaewrapt]

It's also playable for me (current Steam Beta + Proton Experimental), can't confirm the "starting minimized" issue, could be something specific to a previous poster's window manager behaviour, tried with fluxbox on Arch myself.

[AwesamLinux]

@thaewrapt I have encountered same kind of issue with a few other games like #2567, #1387, #2579

From what I have seen it appears to be some UE3 engine games specifically on gnome based desktops like Pantheon, Budgie, Mate and Cinnamon that have had the problem. I will probably revisit some of those games, and do some more testing 🤔