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Star Wars Empire At War: Gold Pack long loading times, huge stutters

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ValveSoftware/Proton#8369 · opened 2025-01-03 by Miss-Mistyy · updated 2025-01-03 · 1 comments · github
MMiss-Mistyy 2025-01-03 github

Compatibility Report

  • Name of the game with compatibility issues: Star Wars Empire At War: Gold Pack
  • Steam AppID of the game: 32470

System Information

  • GPU: AMD 9700 XTX

  • Video driver version: Mesa 24.3.2-arch1.1, radv, amdgpu

  • Kernel version: 6.12.7 (64-bit) (issues still present on latest linux kernel as well)

  • Link to full system information report as Gist

  • Proton version: 9.0-4

I confirm:

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

steam-32470.log

Symptoms

In Empire At War: Gold Pack --> Forces Of Corruption --> Awakening Of The Rebellion mod, there is extremely long load times and consistently bad stuttering when during heavy firefights that I've replicated on both me and my partner's PCs that isn't present on Windows. It happens at any graphic settings. It can make the experience feel bad to unplayable.

Reproduction

Prerequisite: Subscribe to "Awakening of The Rebellion" on Steam Workshop.

Launch Star Wars Empire At War: Gold Pack ---> Choose Forces of Corruption ---> Main Menu ---> Settings ---> Mods ---> Choose "Awakening Of Rebellion". You will notice absurdly long loading times compared to Windows, combined with initial stuttering in the main menu. In space or land firefights there is more stuttering, especially heavy firefights that isn't present on Windows that can make it unplayable.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2025-01-03 github

Hello @alialice3, we're using one issue report per unofficially supported game title, so I've gone ahead and transferred this issue report to https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/584#issuecomment-2569460635.

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