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Halo PC retail release/demo version fails to start.

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doitsujin/dxvk#1305 · opened 2019-12-24 by Aerocatia · updated 2020-06-26 · 13 comments · github
AAerocatia 2019-12-24 github

While Halo Custom Edition works, the regular disc release of the game does not as they have slightly different renderers.
The free trial version of the game also does not work and uses the same renderer as the retail release.

System information

  • GPU: AMD RX 580
  • Driver:Mesa/radv 19.3.1
  • Wine version: wine-staging 5.0-rc2
  • DXVK version: v1.5-27-gb4f2094

Log files

  • d3d9.log:
info:  DXVK: v1.5-27-gb4f2094
info:  Found built-in config:
info:  Effective configuration:
info:    d3d9.customVendorId = 1002
info:    d3d9.customDeviceId = 4172
info:  Built-in extension providers:
info:    Win32 WSI
info:    OpenVR
warn:  OpenVR: Failed to locate module
info:  Enabled instance extensions:
info:    VK_KHR_get_physical_device_properties2
info:    VK_KHR_surface
info:    VK_KHR_win32_surface
warn:  D3D9: VK_FORMAT_D24_UNORM_S8_UINT -> VK_FORMAT_D32_SFLOAT_S8_UINT
info:  AMD RADV POLARIS10 (LLVM 9.0.0):
info:    Driver: 19.3.1
info:    Vulkan: 1.1.107
info:    Memory Heap[0]: 
info:      Size: 7936 MiB
info:      Flags: 0x1
info:      Memory Type[0]: Property Flags = 0x1
info:    Memory Heap[1]: 
info:      Size: 256 MiB
info:      Flags: 0x1
info:      Memory Type[2]: Property Flags = 0x7
info:    Memory Heap[2]: 
info:      Size: 8192 MiB
info:      Flags: 0x0
info:      Memory Type[1]: Property Flags = 0x6
info:      Memory Type[3]: Property Flags = 0xe
info:  Process set as DPI aware
KK0bin maintainer 2019-12-24 github

Please make an apitrace. It's impossible to fix without one.

AAerocatia 2019-12-24 github

halo.zip

Ddoitsujin maintainer 2019-12-24 github

The trace is empty. Please disable dxvk to record it, or better yet, record it on Windows if you have access to a Windows system.

AAerocatia 2019-12-25 github

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/375392801539620876/659392028903211018/halotrial-d3d9trace.7z

Created on Windows 7.
When playing back the trace it shows a black screen and I am not sure why. hopefully this is still useful.

AAerocatia 2019-12-25 github

Here is another trace file that does not show a black screen, however the game is now using its "DisableAlphaRenderTargets" option and will look visually wrong in this trace, but it works.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/375392801539620876/659451803879866398/halotrial-d3d9trace2.7z

Mmisyltoad 2019-12-25 github

Hm, trace replays fine...

Looks like I'll need to try this myself to fix it.

NNerosTie 2020-02-07 github

I have the retail version installed and it works very well.

But I just tested the demo with DXVK 1.5.4 and I have this bug:

Screenshot_20200207_111015

It's the same bug as this one:
https://github.com/Joshua-Ashton/d9vk/issues/388

But there is one difference, with the demo it tells me I have an ATI Radeon 9600, which is not the case, it should detect a Nvidia GPU.

halo_demo.log

I'll make an apitrace later if needed.

Mmisyltoad 2020-02-07 github

@NerosTie The EXE name is halo_demo.exe? Looks like we need to add that to the app compat profiles perhaps.

NNerosTie 2020-02-07 github

No, halo.exe too...

Mmisyltoad 2020-02-07 github

ofc.... bleh ok

Mmisyltoad 2020-02-17 github

The trial version works fine here.

Mmisyltoad 2020-02-17 github

But there is one difference, with the demo it tells me I have an ATI Radeon 9600, which is not the case, it should detect a Nvidia GPU.

No, it detecting that GPU is 100% intentional.

AAerocatia 2020-06-26 github

Closing this as the game runs as expected.

Game performance with is rather low using only DXVK compared with running dgVoodoo2 to wrap the d3d9 and DXVK to wrap dgVoodoo's d3d11 output, I'm not sure if I should open that as an issue though but I don't think adding another wrapper to the mix should be faster that using pure DXVK, it should be the other way around.

Nothing extracted yet.