Microsoft Allegiance

protonopen appid 700480Game compatibility - Unofficial

ValveSoftware/Proton#3395 · opened 2019-12-30 by agates · updated 2020-01-01 · 1 comments · github · game page · search this game

Aagates 2019-12-30 github

Compatibility Report

Name of the game with compatibility issues: Microsoft Allegiance
Steam AppID of the game: 700480

System Information

GPU: Radeon RX 580
Driver/LLVM version: 4.5 Mesa 19.2.1
Kernel version: 5.5.0-0.rc2.git1.1.fc32.x86_64
Link to full system information report as Gist: https://gist.github.com/agates/5c9ba411a0478632a96c11a25e7ea6a8
Proton version: 4.11-11

I confirm:

[x] 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

Cannot play multiplayer out of the box. Needs directplay installed for multiplayer support. Seems to work fine otherwise.

Reproduction

Run the game
Click "JOIN GAMES"
Click "CURRENT GAMES LISTINGS"
The game will give an error saying failed to connect to lobby.

Other information

The game was open sourced by Microsoft and now lives under the MIT license.
https://github.com/FreeAllegiance/Allegiance

Aagates 2020-01-01 github

I had to remove an extra network interface (virbr0 in my case) on one machine in order for the game to connect to the network. It seems there is a networking bug somewhere -- either in the game, directplay, or wine -- perhaps related to how the default bind ip is selected?

Nothing extracted yet.