(solved) Textures do not load when running Spider-Man 2 with Proton

2 months ago by sbeak to c/linux

Aside from audio issues, the initial cutscene played fine, if a bit laggy on my laptop. When loaded into the game, it appears that all the textures are missing, and although the game is functionally fine (you can swing, collide with objects, hear dialogue, etc.), it's pretty unplayable as you can't see anything that isn't next to a bright light source. It looked pretty cool though, but definitely not what I want to enjoy the game (by the way, when on Earth did games exceed 100GB? That's mad!)

I am running the game with Steam + Proton Experimental, with "SteamDeck=1 %command%" as launch arguments (it was a fix online that enabled the game to run in the first place!).

My laptop has an Intel i7-1360p with Intel Iris Xe graphics, no dGPU. So, potato performance.

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edit: The problem is that my iGPU simply doesn't have enough memory to load the textures. Thanks, everyone!

I am moving to Piefed at scallisto@retrofed.com (https://retrofed.com/u/scallisto)

ArsonButCute 8 points 2 months ago

You ain't got no VRAM, lieutenant Dan.

Where are you planning to put those textures you're loading.

I know the performance should be sufficient to game with, but Idk about that one.

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sbeak 4 points 2 months ago

That sounds about right, my laptop is simply too potato

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ColdWater 1 point 2 months ago

You can try to setup zram if you have fast nvme the game should see it as actual ram

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ArsonButCute 0 points 2 months ago

If I may make a recommendation for gaming on that machine:

Have a windows install on a second partition/drive.

Windows' graphics drivers are generally better are reallocating system ram to be used as vram, IME the Linux drivers generally are unwilling to allocate more than is absolutely necessary to run a desktop and a few gui apps. This is one of the biggest complaints for example with Nvidia's *nix drivers, which don't allow ram sharing and only use what's dedicated to the video card in hardware. Of course you're on a team blue rig, my experience won't transfer there but I assume it's likely a similar issue.

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randamumaki 6 points 2 months ago

Try the latest GE-Proton and hope it works, but the chances are slim.

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SatyrSack 5 points 2 months ago

I don't think that is a Proton thing. That game notoriously sucks even natively.

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sbeak 4 points 2 months ago

That seems about right from what I can tell online. No textures is definitely abnormal though

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ColdWater 3 points 2 months ago

I have a better luck with Ge-Proton and Proton-EM

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Tacky4092 1 point 2 months ago

Amazing that it even lets you load the game.

Also it will run like shit as soon as you start swinging with your potato setup so glhf

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sbeak 1 point 2 months ago

It seemed to swing smoothly, it was just the boss battle with Sandman that was a bit laggy. Of course, I couldn't tell what's happening super well since there were no textures. Also of note, it's ultra low + sub HD resolution.

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