Game Crash: Signal 11 - Segmentation Fault

[Bharogh]

Hello,

Game keeps crashing after a random amount of turns...with error: Signal 11 - Segmentation Fault

com.feralinteractive.warhammer2tw,1.1.6RC1,316220.58838,9oZadpNGRv1vuZCvSn/xviEy,Game crashed with signal 11:Game crashed with signal SIGSEGV(11): Segmentation fault.

PC Specs:
OS: Manjaro Linux x86_64
██████████████████ ████████ Kernel: 5.15.41-1-MANJARO
████████ ████████ Uptime: 3 mins
████████ ████████ ████████ Packages: 1138 (pacman)
████████ ████████ ████████ Shell: bash 5.1.16
████████ ████████ ████████ Resolution: 2560x1440
████████ ████████ ████████ DE: Plasma 5.24.5
████████ ████████ ████████ WM: KWin
████████ ████████ ████████ Theme: [Plasma], Breeze [GTK2/3]
████████ ████████ ████████ Icons: [Plasma], breeze [GTK2/3]
████████ ████████ ████████ Terminal: konsole
████████ ████████ ████████ CPU: Intel i9-9900K (16) @ 5.000GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
Memory: 2647MiB / 32019MiB

Please provide a solution for this issue, I've also bought 2 more DLC's recently and was hoping i could actually play. I see this issue going back to 2018 or more...

Thanks,

[HazardHawk]

https://forums.totalwar.com/discussion/306213/known-issues-workarounds-and-support-updated

[Bharogh]

Still no answer...

[HazardHawk]

I gave you the "Official" link for troubleshooting. BUT I can tell you it is NOT a game problem but a computer problem.

Off the top of my head...
1) Heat problem
2) overclocking problem (CPU: Intel i9-9900K (16) @ 5.000GHz should be 3.600 not 5.000 and if it is running constant at 5.000, your computer will not last very long)
3) you can try repairing the game itself by uninstalling through Steam the common redistributables, reboot, run steam as admin, install redistributables, reboot, try to play
4) If the error is not corrected by the redistributables, first list of issues to look is what is causing the processor to run at top speed includes malware, virus, linked to a mining hook be it crypto or SETI or some such, processor is failing, mainboard is failing, primary hard drive is failing (usually an SSD and from installing and uninstalling programs and deleting data from the SSD),, and on and on...

If you find yourself past #3 and no answers, a full reformat and install of windows from scratch after updating your mainboard bios and if you are still getting an overflow error, that is pure hardware component.

[the.lovewyrm]

Originally posted by Bharogh:

Hello,


Please provide a solution for this issue, I've also bought 2 more DLC's recently and was hoping i could actually play. I see this issue going back to 2018 or more...

Thanks,

Play it using Proton 6.3, and using protontricks with
"protontricks 594570 --gui"
select the default wineprefix
then
Run winecfg
then, when that window for that pops up, go to
Graphics
Uncheck all checkboxes
Click okay.

Cancel out of protontricks until it closes.

That should now give you a fully working WH2 that doesn't have weird glitches like 'sticky modifier' keys.

But, unchecking those boxes in the winecfg graphics settings will also make your window manager not decorate the game etc, and when you 'tab out' the game will minimize weirdly.

It can be recovered most of the time like this by clicking on the weird rectangle it turns into.


So, it's kind of a pick your poison.
The native client has some segfaults (and no MP crossplay with windows)
The proton way hsa crossplay with windows, but minimizes weirdly (but not using those settings makes the keyboard weird) and it sometimes doesn't maximize.

Also, it might crash on some battle maps but that stopped happening to me and never came back without changing anything.

[veracsthane]

sounds like windows drm screwed you and you will get to have lots of fun with this. you pretty much have to avoid drm games like a plague on linux its better then it was but its still a joke because thats how windows is now.

[Bharogh]

Originally posted by HazardHawk:

I gave you the "Official" link for troubleshooting. BUT I can tell you it is NOT a game problem but a computer problem.

Off the top of my head...
1) Heat problem
2) overclocking problem (CPU: Intel i9-9900K (16) @ 5.000GHz should be 3.600 not 5.000 and if it is running constant at 5.000, your computer will not last very long)
3) you can try repairing the game itself by uninstalling through Steam the common redistributables, reboot, run steam as admin, install redistributables, reboot, try to play
4) If the error is not corrected by the redistributables, first list of issues to look is what is causing the processor to run at top speed includes malware, virus, linked to a mining hook be it crypto or SETI or some such, processor is failing, mainboard is failing, primary hard drive is failing (usually an SSD and from installing and uninstalling programs and deleting data from the SSD),, and on and on...

If you find yourself past #3 and no answers, a full reformat and install of windows from scratch after updating your mainboard bios and if you are still getting an overflow error, that is pure hardware component.

Hi,

I work in IT myself, I think i can diagnose if something is wrong my hardware, thank you. CPU is running at 3.6Ghz...The game runs flawless in windows.
I am not using Windows, as seen in the first lines...
I will try the reply with the proton solution.

Please, when trying to help, be accurate with the solution and read the whole text.
Thank you and have a nice day!

[Bharogh]

Originally posted by the.lovewyrm:

Originally posted by Bharogh:

Hello,


Please provide a solution for this issue, I've also bought 2 more DLC's recently and was hoping i could actually play. I see this issue going back to 2018 or more...

Thanks,

Play it using Proton 6.3, and using protontricks with
"protontricks 594570 --gui"
select the default wineprefix
then
Run winecfg
then, when that window for that pops up, go to
Graphics
Uncheck all checkboxes
Click okay.

Cancel out of protontricks until it closes.

That should now give you a fully working WH2 that doesn't have weird glitches like 'sticky modifier' keys.

But, unchecking those boxes in the winecfg graphics settings will also make your window manager not decorate the game etc, and when you 'tab out' the game will minimize weirdly.

It can be recovered most of the time like this by clicking on the weird rectangle it turns into.


So, it's kind of a pick your poison.
The native client has some segfaults (and no MP crossplay with windows)
The proton way hsa crossplay with windows, but minimizes weirdly (but not using those settings makes the keyboard weird) and it sometimes doesn't maximize.

Also, it might crash on some battle maps but that stopped happening to me and never came back without changing anything.

Hi,

I will give it a try, but running proton lowers the fps and its kind of bothering.

Thank you,

[Bharogh]

Originally posted by veracsthane:

sounds like windows drm screwed you and you will get to have lots of fun with this. you pretty much have to avoid drm games like a plague on linux its better then it was but its still a joke because thats how windows is now.

Have you also tried a different kernel version, Im thinking that it may run ok on 5.10 as I've read in some forums...The development team needs to patch this but it seems they are taking their time.

[mwnn]

I was getting continual random crashing when using the Linux release - it updated a few months ago to 1.12.1.
Even loading a save file from a previous turn after restarting the game could result in an instant crash - the save files seem to get randomly corrupted.

It was rock solid before the update i.e. 1.11.1 or cavalry beta.

I sent off numerous crash logs to Feral through the launcher and even sent an email but didn't get a satisfactory answer.
I was advised to swap my system over from Debian Testing to Ubuntu LTS but it didn't make any difference.

There's a few annoying bugs in the Linux version which aren't present in the Windows release.
> The research button getting locked out/greyed out after closing the research screen when it should be available.
> My GPU's VRAM amount isn't detected/displayed properly in the Graphics Options screen on 1.12.1

Either revert to the previous version through Steam's menus (i.e. Cavalry Beta/1.11.1) or run the Windows release through Proton 7.
You don't need to dabble with protontricks/winetricks or anything else - it works out the box.
There's only about 5-10% difference in FPS between them on the Skaven benchmark.
I've not had a single crash since plus you get faster updates directly from CA.

The one major downside is having to be online to start the game - this'll be the Denuvo copy protection which isn't present on the Linux release.

I don't expect Warhammer 2 to receive any further updates from Creative Assembly or Feral - they've moved onto WH3.

[Bharogh]

Originally posted by mwnn:

I was getting continual random crashing when using the Linux release - it updated a few months ago to 1.12.1.
Even loading a save file from a previous turn after restarting the game could result in an instant crash - the save files seem to get randomly corrupted.

It was rock solid before the update i.e. 1.11.1 or cavalry beta.

I sent off numerous crash logs to Feral through the launcher and even sent an email but didn't get a satisfactory answer.
I was advised to swap my system over from Debian Testing to Ubuntu LTS but it didn't make any difference.

There's a few annoying bugs in the Linux version which aren't present in the Windows release.
> The research button getting locked out/greyed out after closing the research screen when it should be available.
> My GPU's VRAM amount isn't detected/displayed properly in the Graphics Options screen on 1.12.1

Either revert to the previous version through Steam's menus (i.e. Cavalry Beta/1.11.1) or run the Windows release through Proton 7.
You don't need to dabble with protontricks/winetricks or anything else - it works out the box.
There's only about 5-10% difference in FPS between them on the Skaven benchmark.
I've not had a single crash since plus you get faster updates directly from CA.

The one major downside is having to be online to start the game - this'll be the Denuvo copy protection which isn't present on the Linux release.

I don't expect Warhammer 2 to receive any further updates from Creative Assembly or Feral - they've moved onto WH3.

I am now on turn 35 using steam builtin proton, seems to be working fine. Will test further tonight and come back with an update in case anyone else runs into this issue.

Thank you,

[VisciousFishes]

Originally posted by HazardHawk:

I gave you the "Official" link for troubleshooting. BUT I can tell you it is NOT a game problem but a computer problem.

Off the top of my head...
1) Heat problem
2) overclocking problem (CPU: Intel i9-9900K (16) @ 5.000GHz should be 3.600 not 5.000 and if it is running constant at 5.000, your computer will not last very long)
3) you can try repairing the game itself by uninstalling through Steam the common redistributables, reboot, run steam as admin, install redistributables, reboot, try to play
4) If the error is not corrected by the redistributables, first list of issues to look is what is causing the processor to run at top speed includes malware, virus, linked to a mining hook be it crypto or SETI or some such, processor is failing, mainboard is failing, primary hard drive is failing (usually an SSD and from installing and uninstalling programs and deleting data from the SSD),, and on and on...

If you find yourself past #3 and no answers, a full reformat and install of windows from scratch after updating your mainboard bios and if you are still getting an overflow error, that is pure hardware component.

That link you provided was for troubleshooting WH3, not 2.

[Bharogh]

Problem Solved (so it appears) through Steam Proton Experimental.

Native version is bugged.

[the.lovewyrm]

Originally posted by Bharogh:

Problem Solved (so it appears) through Steam Proton Experimental.

Native version is bugged.

No sticky alt key, or anything? If so, great. Experimental must have fixed that then.
I suggested 6.3 + Protontricks because it was the fix for that at the time.

[Bharogh]

Originally posted by the.lovewyrm:

Originally posted by Bharogh:

Problem Solved (so it appears) through Steam Proton Experimental.

Native version is bugged.

No sticky alt key, or anything? If so, great. Experimental must have fixed that then.
I suggested 6.3 + Protontricks because it was the fix for that at the time.

Really no issue so far..apart from the lower FPS.

[mwnn]

Good to hear that it's worked for you.
I've finished numerous campaigns in WH1 & WH2 under Proton so you shouldn't have any problems from now on.
I switched WH1 over to Proton too as it's an old OpenGL port; DirectX to Vulkan (DXVK) is faster.

It's unfortunate that we have (had?) a rather nice Vulkan native port - which is borked now - but there we go :'(

Even Feral kinda acknowledge that the writing is on the wall for Linux ports:
https://publish.twitter.com/?query=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fferalgames%2Fstatus%2F1420036822466502667&widget=Tweet

I certainly don't think I could or need to go back to using crappy Windows.
The odd virtual machine with QEMU + Virt Manager is the closest I get.