SW: Republic Commando crashes on game start when squad shadows are enabled

[WinterSnowfall]

The game plays the intro videos, but crashes right after clicking on Continue (it should proceed to the profile selection screen).

Unfortunately apitrace fails once again, in all possible combinations. I get a frame in the capture on game startup and it then crashes.

There's nothing of interest in the logs either, but I hope maybe @Blisto91 can capture a trace on windows. If not, I'll at least get a d3d9 trace with d3d8to9 again.

Software information

SW: Republic Commando (UE2 title)

System information

• GPU: Nvidia GTX 1080
• Driver: 515.76
• Wine version: 7.19 Staging
• DXVK version: 1ee2743

Apitrace file(s)

None, it crashes...

Log files

• d3d8.log: SWRepublicCommando_d3d8.log
• d3d9.log: SWRepublicCommando_d3d9.log

[WinterSnowfall]

Here's a d3d9 trace I captured with DXVK. WineD3D is proving quite obstinate in 7.19 (windows resizing/virtual desktop memes I think), but I'm hoping this is somewhat fine.

[Blisto91]

I forgot to note it here also.
Wasn't able to get a d3d8 trace on windows. Game crashes

[Blisto91]

With latest master this now get further and you can play around in the main menu.
Now it will instead crash upon loading a new game if you have turned on the graphics setting SQUAD SHADOWS

[AlpyneDreams]

See also: doitsujin#1430

Does bump mapping work? Only squad shadows causes a crash?

[Blisto91]

Yes bump mapping (just via ingame setting) have not caused me any issues. squad shadows crash for me upon loading a game.
This on my R9 380

[Blisto91]

Game regressed with 25b4860 which makes it crash a bit after the game window appears.

SWRepublicCommando_d3d9.log
d3d8 log is empty

[Blisto91]

I am now able to get to main menu again.

@WinterSnowfall Also figured why i was able to all along while he crashes. I had shader pre cache disabled in steam so there was no background video at the menu. If i enable it i also crash before i can select profile.

[AlpyneDreams]

I am now able to get to main menu again.

@WinterSnowfall Also figured why i was able to all along while he crashes. I had shader pre cache disabled in steam so there was no background video at the menu. If i enable it i also crash before i can select profile.

Not sure how shader pre-cache would affect things, will have to look into it. Does turning off SQUAD SHADOWS still allow you to get past the main menu or has that regressed?

[Blisto91]

Yes without pre cache it works as before where i can play as long as squad shadows are off

[WinterSnowfall]

As of 6c1b0ed, I'm also able to play the game with squad shadows off, however one extra weird thing is that the usual menu background animations/videos aren't being shown, only a static background.

Here's the main menu with d3d8to9 + dxvk:

And here's the menu with d8vk (same settings):

[WinterSnowfall]

Not sure what fixed the background videos, but they are now playing as expected. The only remaining issue is with "Squad Shadows" - the game will crash on loading/starting a new game with the option enabled, but will work just fine otherwise.

[WinterSnowfall]

I haven't found a way to make d3d8 apitrace work, but I've captured two d3d9 traces using d3d8to9 and dxvk up to the point of the crash (should be just a few frames into starting a new game):
a) One with Squad Shadows enabled
b) One with Squad Shadows disabled

[mrdeathjr28]

Yeah confirm mainmenu are fixed in my case (cinematics works too)