Avowed (2457220)

[spslabo]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Avowed
• Steam AppID of the game: 2457220

System Information

• GPU: NVIDIA 3090
• Video driver version: 570.86.16
• Kernel version: Linux 6.13.4-zen1-1-zen
• Link to full system information report as Gist: https://gist.github.com/spslabo/48df3d4d84cf643597dc793ef4840fb6
• Proton version: 1739874313 experimental-9.0-20250218 (I have also tried GE-Proton, Hotfix, Proton-TKG)

I confirm:

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

steam-2457220.log

Symptoms

Game is crashing randomly, no specific action is done in game, it can be while walking, talking to NPC, in a fight, etc. Sometimes it's a full crash to desktop other times it freezes

Reproduction

1. Launch game
2. Play the game
3. Game will either crash to desktop or freeze

[kisak-valve]

Avowed (2457220)

Issue transferred from #8490.
@ncpa0cpl posted on 2025-03-01T14:06:22:

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Avowed
• Steam AppID of the game: 2457220

System Information

• GPU: Radeon 6950XT
• Video driver version: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 24.3.4-arch1.1
• Kernel version: 6.12.16-1-lts (EndevourOS)
• Link to full system information report: https://gist.github.com/ncpa0cpl/9933d9c476e0b9aac299010433257063
• Proton version: Proton Experimental / 9.0-4
• CPU Brand: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X

I confirm:

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

Symptoms

Operating System crashes and the PC reboots.
I found this in the journal:

mar 01 14:43:56 owner-ms7b89 steam[2552]: wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1.
mar 01 14:43:56 owner-ms7b89 steam[2552]: Adding process 3670 for gameID 2457220
mar 01 14:43:56 owner-ms7b89 steam[2552]: wine: setpriority 2 for pid -1 failed: 3
mar 01 14:43:57 owner-ms7b89 steam[2552]: Fossilize INFO: Overriding serialization path: "/mnt/game-drive/SteamLibrary/steamapps/shadercache/2457220/fozpipelinesv6/steamapprun_p>
mar 01 14:43:59 owner-ms7b89 steam[2552]: Fossilize INFO: Overriding serialization path: "/mnt/game-drive/SteamLibrary/steamapps/shadercache/2457220/fozpipelinesv6/steamapprun_p>
mar 01 14:43:59 owner-ms7b89 steam[2552]: 03/01 14:43:59 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps
mar 01 14:43:59 owner-ms7b89 steam[2552]: 03/01 14:43:59 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(gameoverlayui)/version(20250128005041)/tid(3742)
mar 01 14:43:59 owner-ms7b89 steam[2552]: 03/01 14:43:59 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(gameoverlayui)/version(1.0)/tid(3742)
mar 01 14:43:59 owner-ms7b89 steam[2552]: wine: setpriority -10 for pid -1 failed: 3
mar 01 14:43:59 owner-ms7b89 steam[2552]: wine: setpriority -10 for pid -1 failed: 3
mar 01 14:44:02 owner-ms7b89 steam[2552]: wine: setpriority -10 for pid -1 failed: 3
mar 01 14:44:04 owner-ms7b89 geoclue[1483]: Service not used for 60 seconds. Shutting down..
mar 01 14:44:04 owner-ms7b89 systemd[1]: geoclue.service: Deactivated successfully.
mar 01 14:44:09 owner-ms7b89 systemd[1630]: Starting Virtual filesystem metadata service...
mar 01 14:44:10 owner-ms7b89 systemd[1630]: Started Virtual filesystem metadata service.
mar 01 14:44:10 owner-ms7b89 kernel: traps: steamwebhelper[3014] trap invalid opcode ip:761f802cabcf sp:7fff33bff8b0 error:0 in libcef.so[66c9bcf,761f7bfed000+a36d000]
mar 01 14:44:10 owner-ms7b89 systemd-coredump[3796]: Process 3014 (steamwebhelper) of user 1000 terminated abnormally with signal 4/ILL, processing...
mar 01 14:44:10 owner-ms7b89 systemd[1]: Created slice Slice /system/systemd-coredump.
mar 01 14:44:10 owner-ms7b89 systemd[1]: Started Process Core Dump (PID 3796/UID 0).
mar 01 14:44:13 owner-ms7b89 (sd-parse-elf)[3801]: Could not parse core file, dwfl_core_file_report() failed: (null)
mar 01 14:44:13 owner-ms7b89 (sd-parse-elf)[3801]: Failed to inspect core file: Invalid argument
mar 01 14:44:13 owner-ms7b89 systemd-coredump[3798]: [🡕] Process 3014 (steamwebhelper) of user 1000 dumped core.
mar 01 14:44:13 owner-ms7b89 systemd[1]: [email protected]: Deactivated successfully.
mar 01 14:44:13 owner-ms7b89 systemd[1]: [email protected]: Consumed 3.165s CPU time, 1.2G memory peak.
mar 01 14:44:24 owner-ms7b89 steam[2552]: wine: setpriority -1 for pid -1 failed: 3
-- Boot 54b09ccc6b83413cbafb838b6a213182 --

Reproduction

It seems that there are specific areas in the game that trigger this issue, I didn't had this happen a lot, but around the farmland below Fior city and when exiting the Thirdborn it would happen almost every time.

I didn't experience any similar issues with any other games.