Star Wars Outlaws (2842040)

[NTMan]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Star Wars Outlaws
• Steam AppID of the game: 2842040

System Information

• GPU: AMD Radeon 7900XTX
• Video driver version: Mesa 24.3-dev
• Kernel version: 6.13-dev
• Link to full system information report as Gist
• Proton version: 1732192449 experimental-bleeding-edge-9.0-137162-20241121-pd32f73-w6baf81-ddd1532-v657f81-unstripped

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-2842040.zip

Symptoms

1. The game shows a warning that the game installed on a mechanical hard drive, but it is not true.
   
   

> nvme list
Node                  Generic               SN                   Model                                    Namespace  Usage                      Format           FW Rev  
--------------------- --------------------- -------------------- ---------------------------------------- ---------- -------------------------- ---------------- --------
/dev/nvme0n1          /dev/ng0n1            PHAL20720074400BGN   INTEL SSDPF21Q400GB                      0x1        400.09  GB / 400.09  GB    512   B +  0 B   L0310200
/dev/nvme1n1          /dev/ng1n1            PHAC2074009T30PGGN   INTEL SSDPF2NV307TZ                      0x1         30.73  TB /  30.73  TB    512   B +  0 B   ACV10340

2. This is the second Ubisoft game in my collection that does not see my gamepad. The first game was "Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora"

Reproduction

Always

[bitbucket90]

It can see my ps5 controller, even has trigger haptics. I get the same error as you + it freezes when loading but music still plays. Just installed it so haven't had time to dive deep. Will dig in the next few weeks.

[Dwarsen]

It can see my ps5 controller, even has trigger haptics. I get the same error as you + it freezes when loading but music still plays. Just installed it so haven't had time to dive deep. Will dig in the next few weeks.

Do you happen to have an Nvidia card? I have a 3080 (driver 565, Wayland). I've played the game for around 10 hours now, but several of those has been trying to figure out why it sometimes hangs on load. I've experimented a lot but I haven't been able to reach a 100% conclusive reason for it yet. Although it seems like setting the graphics preset to "low" usually lets it load, and then when in game you can USUALLY set it higher again (but sometimes it will hang in the menu). Sometimes it seems like it's enough to change the upscaling, but sometimes that isn't enough. I'm not entirely sure, every time I think I've figured it out it hangs again at a later time.

Oh, and enabling Ray Reconstruction will cause a hang every time, which is quite sad.

The game will also start stuttering like mad after a while for reasons I can't quite discern; it's not out of VRAM, and the stutters will get reduced or eliminated if I bring up Mangohud...

EDIT: I've tried looking at the journal while this happens, but the only thing I see is:

kwin_scene_opengl: 0x502: GL_INVALID_OPERATION error generated.

[joanayma]

I have a similar input problem with the steam version. The game starts but on the start screen the keyboard and gamepad are unresponsive. Somehow one time it worked and I could test the game a little bit, confirming it works ok. I can't make the gamepad work. Using experimental and ge-9-20.

[NTMan]

Somehow one time it worked and I could test the game a little bit, confirming it works ok.

Workaround: disconnect and connect again gamepad by wired

[joanayma]

Somehow one time it worked and I could test the game a little bit, confirming it works ok.

Workaround: disconnect and connect again gamepad by wired

I got it working with cable but I play with Bluetooth when I can to sit on the sofa :/ not a workaround for me. Why is the steam input not working on this game?

[bitbucket90]

Replying to #8261 (comment)

System specs:

GPU: RTX 3080
Driver: 565.57.01
Proton: 6.12.1
OS: Arch Linux
DE: KDE

Initial testing:

Game launched successfully into intro
Paused first scene and enabled Ray Construction
After changing settings, unable to relaunch game
Re-downloaded to test suggested method (not changing settings until in-game)
Game launched fine with default Steam PE

Update 1:

Game now stalls at initial load (stuck on bottom-left logo)
Audio playing in background
GPU and CPU show activity
Same error persists

Update 2:

Successfully launched with PE-20
Reached Ultra settings without issues
Frame generation test:

Initially worked
Cutscene displayed black screen
Gameplay flickered between normal and black screen
Crashed while trying to disable frame gen

Update 3:
Current findings:

Once game hangs, subsequent launches fail (stuck on loading screen)
Successful launch sequence:

Start game
Wait until character movement is possible
Avoid changing settings
Avoid frame gen

Need to verify behavior with RTX lighting and reconstruction options

Workaround:

Only solution after hang is reinstallation (manageable with fiber connection)