Doom 2016 black screens on launch

protonclosed appid 379720Game compatibility

ValveSoftware/Proton#1718 · opened 2018-10-12 by Seeboooo · updated 2018-10-16 · 5 comments · github · game page · search this game

SSeeboooo 2018-10-12 github

Compatibility Report

Name of the game with compatibility issues: Doom 2016
Steam AppID of the game: 379720

System Information

GPU: AMD RX 580 8g
Driver/LLVM version: Mesa 18.2.2-1
Kernel version: 4.19
Link to full system information report as : sys info
inxi
Proton version: 3.7 (installed seperately)

steam-379720.log

I confirm:

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

Symptoms

Game will go to a black screen with a frozen console. 2 CPU cores stay at 100% use but nothing works when using “+r_renderAPI 1”. Game crash when trying to launch using OpenGL (but an error message is reported in the console).

Reproduction

Launching the game.

Uninstalled vulkan-intel (64 and 32 bits versions), installed vcrun2015 and xinput as found on other threads but nothing worked. Doom never worked since proton was launched, but I've waited a few patched to see if something would change but it didn't.

screenshot_2018-10-11_20-01-20

LLeJimster 2018-10-14 github

There was an update to Doom that broke mesa support. Can't remember exactly what version it was fixed on.

I would suggest you try installing the latest mesa-git. The easiest way is to use this repo:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/unofficial_user_repositories#mesa-git

Then make sure you have everything for Vulkan to work correctly.

vulkan-radeon-git
lib32-vulkan-radeon-git
lib32-vulkan-icd-loader
vulkan-icd-loader
xf86-video-amdgpu-git
mesa-git
lib32-mesa-git

Also doesn't hurt to have the latest LLVM

llvm-libs-svn
lib32-llvm-libs-svn

All available from the same repo linked above.

I thought the fixes had already been backported to 18.2... But maybe they haven't yet. This should get you up and running, no extra workarounds needed for Doom.

LLeJimster 2018-10-14 github

@Seeboooo I managed to replicate your issue running Steam (Native). To get Doom working you need to be running Steam (Runtime). Have fun =)

SSeeboooo 2018-10-16 github

@Seeboooo I managed to replicate your issue running Steam (Native). To get Doom working you need to be running Steam (Runtime). Have fun =)

Uninstalling steam-native to use steam-runtime (without removing steam-native dependencies) worked using +r_renderAPI 1 launch options (no issue with intro videos).

Only thing is the fps counter disappear once I load a game (it's there when I start and I'm in the menu, but once I start playing it disappear).

Thanks @LeJimster for the tip.

(mesa is still 18.2.2, dxvk received an update since first post).

LLeJimster 2018-10-16 github

@Seeboooo you can always enable the "Performance Metrics" to show your FPS.
Select Campaign > Game Slot > Settings > Advanced > Show Performance Metrics (it's at the bottom)

SSeeboooo 2018-10-16 github

@LeJimster good to know, thanks. It's not a big deal for me, but I was pointing it out in case it was related to my software version only (the steam fps counter disappearing once you load your saved game).

Nothing extracted yet.