Game wont load/crashes ... Worked fine 2 weeks ago?

[GCandy77]

When I load my game, I now get a black screen for approx 2 secs b4 the game closes.

The game work fine about 2 weeks ago just b4 the 13th hot fixes as you can see from my other posts, now from what I can tell from looking at the logs it says that my shader model is not supported.  Im Running via linux steam and have tried in native + all vulkan modes + WINE via the start-up options and it all does the same thing = I get 2 seconds of game time 😫

Im not a experienced Linux user, but I havent changed anything on my system apart from regular system updates & all my other games still work, so ive hit a bit of a wall.  Please help!

Specs -

I5 2500, 16gb Ram, R9 290, Pop Os 19.10

Logs -

Desktop is 1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz
Initialize engine version: 2018.4.12f1 (59ddc4c59b4f)
Forcing GfxDevice: OpenGL Core
GfxDevice: creating device client; threaded=1
Renderer: AMD HAWAII (DRM 2.50.0, 5.3.0-7625-generic, LLVM 10.0.0)
Vendor:   X.Org
Version:  4.5 (Core Profile) Mesa 20.0.0-devel - padoka PPA
GLES:     0
 GL_AMD_conservative_depth GL_AMD_depth_clamp_separate GL_AMD_draw_buffers_blend GL_AMD_gpu_shader_int64 GL_AMD_multi_draw_indirect GL_AMD_performance_monitor GL_AMD_pinned_memory GL_AMD_query_buffer_object GL_AMD_seamless_cubemap_per_texture GL_AMD_shader_stencil_export GL_AMD_shader_trinary_minmax GL_AMD_texture_texture4 GL_AMD_vertex_shader_layer GL_AMD_vertex_shader_viewport_index GL_ANGLE_texture_compression_dxt3 GL_ANGLE_texture_compression_dxt5 GL_ARB_ES2_compatibility GL_ARB_ES3_1_compatibility GL_ARB_ES3_2_compatibility GL_ARB_ES3_compatibility GL_ARB_arrays_of_arrays GL_ARB_base_instance GL_ARB_bindless_texture GL_ARB_blend_func_extended GL_ARB_buffer_storage GL_ARB_clear_buffer_object GL_ARB_clear_texture GL_ARB_clip_control GL_ARB_color_buffer_float GL_ARB_compressed_texture_pixel_storage GL_ARB_compute_shader GL_ARB_compute_variable_group_size GL_ARB_conditional_render_inverted GL_ARB_conservative_depth GL_ARB_copy_buffer GL_ARB_copy_image GL_ARB_cull_distance GL_ARB_debug_output GL_ARB_depth_bu
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OPENGL LOG: Creating OpenGL 4.5 graphics device ; Context level  <OpenGL 4.5> ; Context handle 52994416
Begin MonoManager ReloadAssembly
- Completed reload, in  0.635 seconds
WARNING: Shader Unsupported: 'Hidden/Nature/Terrain/Utilities' - All passes removed
ERROR: Shader Shader is not supported on this GPU (none of subshaders/fallbacks are suitable)WARNING: Shader Unsupported: 'Hidden/Nature/Terrain/Utilities' - Setting to default shader.
WARNING: Shader Unsupported: 'Hidden/PostProcessing/Uber' - Pass '' has no vertex shader
WARNING: Shader Unsupported: 'Hidden/PostProcessing/Uber' - Pass '' has no vertex shader
WARNING: Shader Unsupported: 'Hidden/TerrainEngine/Details/BillboardWavingDoublePass' - Pass 'DEFERRED' has no vertex shader
WARNING: Shader Unsupported: 'Hidden/TerrainEngine/Details/BillboardWavingDoublePass' - All passes removed
WARNING: Shader Unsupported: 'Hidden/PostProcessing/FinalPass' - Pass '' has no vertex shader
WARNING: Shader Unsupported: 'Hidden/PostProcessing/FinalPass' - Pass '' has no vertex shader
Default vsync count 1
requesting resize 1920 x 1080
Using native desktop resolution 1920 x 1080
requesting fullscreen 1920 x 1080 at 0 Hz
Desktop is 1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz

[stratvox]

Two comments. One, your video card is six years old, and from what I can find comes with 2GB memory; it's possible you're running out of VRAM for the game with some of the new resources that are loading to support some of the new features, regions, and critters. Also, I note that your game is "requesting fullscreen 1920 x 1080 at 0 Hz", which indicates that maybe you've got a weird configuration bug, because 0 Hz is not a valid screen refresh. Maybe start with running a steam file validation check. You can do this by right clicking on the game name in Steam and selecting properties, then selecting the "local files" tab, then running the validation check. If that doesn't work, try purging and reinstalling the game to see if it clears the problem up.

If neither of those things work, I'd say go to the reporting page at https://hinterlandgames.zendesk.com/hc/en-us, select "ask for help/report an issue" and fill out the form there describing your problem.

Edited December 23, 2019 by stratvox

[Guest jeffpeng]

R9 290's usually came with 4 GB. Plus I'm currently running a 390, which works very well (except it being a furnace), and that's basically the same chip. And even if you run out of VRAM the worst you should experience is stuttering, not crashes. That 0 Hz looks indicative of a long standing Unity bug that happens with more than one screen. Maybe try purging the configuration of the game (rm ~/.local/share/Hinterland/TheLongDarkNoSync/user001.cfg).

Vulkan is still broken on TLD with a z-Buffer issue making shadows not work of too many shadows are cast, so don't bother with that.

What indeed looks suspicious is 

21 hours ago, GCandy77 said:

4.5 (Core Profile) Mesa 20.0.0-devel - padoka PPA

That's basically compiled right from the git tree. Does PopOS do that by default? That would be highly irregular.

[GCandy77]

Hi peeps and thx for the reply.

Jeff in answer to ure question, Ive had been trying to install the amdgpu drivers a long time ago to try and get my card to run with vulkan & dxvk properly, but it turned out to be a massive pain in the bum and I buggered it off, but the game did work b4 the patch so its a little confusing still.

Neway .. Id thought id mention that its all working now ... In tyipcal noob linux style I messed something else up that required me to do my 7th or 8th re-installation and I suppose the best thing I can do now is not to play with anymore settings & adding random repo's n just accept that at least I can play the dam games again

Wishing u all the best for the NY too!