Squad (393380)

[felschr]

When downloading the game ¨Squad¨ from Steam it directly finishes and trying to start the game causes en error:
¨An error occurred while updating Squad (missing executable)
{some very long path here}/squad_launcher.exe¨

When I use the inspect game folder option I can see that the folder is completely empty.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/393380/Squad/

[kisak-valve]

Looks like this game has an unused linux depot.

[solenum]

There are a few steam games that have non-functional or otherwise useless Linux ports, the ability to install the Windows version of a game that has a native Linux version would be incredibly useful.

[nentibusarchitectura]

@Exezin

I agree completely with this.

Battleblock theater's Linux port only works on Ubuntu 14.04.x, however the Linux version works 100% on wine.

Would be great if on the game properties there was a way to override the Linux version and use the windows one.

[zaggynl]

Unofficial workaround here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamPlay/comments/9cuigr/downloadrun_windows_versions_using_proton/

Got as far as near native FPS, funky sound on the shooting range.
Multiplayer is kaput as AntiCheat appears broken, bug report at wine: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44235

Agree with exezin: a dropdown box or radio buttons to switch between Windows and Linux build of a game in Steam would be awesome

[zaggynl]

Am happy to report that Squad multiplayer now works out of the box as per Proton 3.16-6 Beta
Reddit discussion: https://old.reddit.com/r/joinsquad/comments/ao8dyl/heads_up_squad_now_runs_perfectly_under_linux_via/

Edit: EAC broke the next day :( http://i.imgur.com/3NnZwYF.png
Edit2: Appears to be working again as per: https://old.reddit.com/r/joinsquad/comments/ao8dyl/heads_up_squad_now_runs_perfectly_under_linux_via/egd5805/

[Bumbadawg]

It's free weekend but launching it with 4.2-9 fails with the fact it cannot find /squad_launcher.exe error since it didn't download it. Checking files won't help.

It fails using Native2Proton (also it still runs on 3.16 beta instead of 4.2-9)

[1] Use winetricks on prefix
[2] Install Non-Steam App [Experimental]
[3] Recreate config
[4] Quit
What would you like to do? 0
Please enter the Steam app ID: 393380
Got: Squad
Please enter your Steam username: xxx
Redirecting stderr to '/home/xxx/.steam/steam/logs/stderr.txt'
[  0%] Checking for available updates...
[----] Verifying installation...
Steam Console Client (c) Valve Corporation
-- type 'quit' to exit --
Loading Steam API...OK.
"@sSteamCmdForcePlatformType" = "windows"
Logging in user 'xxx' to Steam Public ...
Logged in OK
Waiting for user info...OK
 Update state (0x3) reconfiguring, progress: 0.00 (0 / 0)
Error! App '393380' state is 0x212 after update job.
Please select the game executable by number:```

[kisak-valve]

Squad (sudden fps drops)

Issue transferred from #3071.
@aly199 posted on 2019-09-19T23:29:24:

Latest Proton (4.11-5) has Squad dropping fps, from 60-90fps, down to 15fps. It happens sort of every 20-30s, drops for about 5-10s, then gets back to normal, cycling like this through the entire game.
Reverting back to Proton 4.2-9, the issue disappears.

Proton 4.11-5
Linux Mint 19.1 (Tessa)
NVIDIA Driver 430.4
Kernel 4.15.0-55-generic

[kisak-valve]

Hello @aly199, please add PROTON_LOG=1 %command% to the game's launch options and drag and drop the generated $HOME/steam-$APPID.log into the comment box.

[solenum]

Counter point to the above, I put in a few hours in the game today on the latest Proton (4.11-5) and it runs flawlessly, multiplayer works perfectly as well and I had no issues with the anticheat (this used to play up with Proton)

I do use these launch commands, not sure if they'll make a difference for @aly199

__GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1 PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 gamemoderun %command%

[aly199]

@kisak-valve, I've played for some 5 minutes or so, and the generated log file is 1.8GB in size!
I mean, I'm willing to upload it through whatever means, but github accepts 10MB maximum.

[kisak-valve]

Ouch, Proton logs compress well, but even in an archive there's a good chance it'll be larger than github is happy with.

[aly199]

Yep. 113MB was the best gzip could do.
I've uploaded the compressed file to pcloud.
Here's the link.

[kisak-valve]

Not that it helps with diagnosing the perf issue, but debugstr is very active with lines like
4460.245:0033:0034:warn:debugstr:OutputDebugStringA "[2019.09.20-22.02.28:146][ 0]LogPackageLocalizationCache: Warning: Skipping the cache update for the package asset groups due to a cache request from a non-game thread. Some localized packages may be missed for this query.\r\n"
4460.246:0033:0034:warn:debugstr:OutputDebugStringA "[2019.09.20-22.02.28:147][ 0]LogPackageLocalizationCache: Warning: Skipping the cache update for 3 pending package path(s) due to a cache request from a non-game thread. Some localized packages may be missed for this query.\r\n"

grep "Warning: Skipping the cache update" steam-393380.log | wc -l
90520

This along with the seh lines that fire off with it makes up the majority of the log.

[aly199]

Oh, I had to do some other stuff here, and forgot to mention: I'm running Steam on a firejail, with an overlay-fs. Don't know if it has something to do with anything, but thought I should mention it.
It probably doesn't matter, since the game ran on Proton 4.2-9 without any hiccups, under the same circunstances.

[HarleyLorenzo]

I'm unable to run Squad suddenly due to EAC. No one else is having this issue that I can see. Running on the latest Proton 4.11-7 on Ubuntu 19.10. When I launch the game, it tells me that EAC could not initialize a game client and subsequently, I could not join any online servers.

[zaggynl]

I'm unable to run Squad suddenly due to EAC. No one else is having this issue that I can see. Running on the latest Proton 4.11-7 on Ubuntu 19.10. When I launch the game, it tells me that EAC could not initialize a game client and subsequently, I could not join any online servers.

Working for me on 1570630972 proton-4.11-7, using Ubuntu 18.04.
There was a Steam outage yesterday, maybe it was related? https://twitter.com/SteamStatus/status/1188893289409400832

[HarleyLorenzo]

I'm unable to run Squad suddenly due to EAC. No one else is having this issue that I can see. Running on the latest Proton 4.11-7 on Ubuntu 19.10. When I launch the game, it tells me that EAC could not initialize a game client and subsequently, I could not join any online servers.

Working for me on 1570630972 proton-4.11-7, using Ubuntu 18.04.
There was a Steam outage yesterday, maybe it was related? https://twitter.com/SteamStatus/status/1188893289409400832

Still not working. It worked before I reinstalled Ubuntu on this new disk (but with no other hardware changes) and I know others still have it working. I'm tempted to spin up the debugging and see what's wrong.

[Byter09]

Wanted to play again since the last time two weeks ago. Same problem. Game runs fine but shows a little popup with: EasyAntiCheat Error: Failed to create IGameClient instance!

The game has not updated in these two weeks and as far as I can see only proton updated in that time (I saw it shortly in my download list downloading 4.11 (or an update for it?)). Anyway, its practically borked now, cause without EAC you can not play on any of the public servers.

Update: I nearly forgot to mention, that I ran WINEPREFIX=~/SteamLibrary/steamapps/compatdata/393380/pfx/ ./EasyAntiCheat_Setup.exe which surprisingly worked and I could select "repair". Though sadly without any success.

[BRMateus2]

Fresh install by Steam (without Proton) still with the empty repo.

With Proton 4.11-9 it works perfectly fine after deleting the Movies folder (Proton does not have the needed codec), except for the Easy Anti Cheat/EAC which intermitently stopped working since Alpha 16 was launched.

EasyAntiCheat Error: Failed to create IGameClient instance!

Current version is 17.

[antimech]

Hello guys.
I'm playing >20 hours online with zero configuration. I'm kinda lucky.

Current version: Beta v18.0.5
Proton: 4.11-11
Distro: Linux Mint 19.2 Tina
Kernel: 5.3.0-24-generic
RAM: 16 GB
GPU Driver: NVIDIA 440.44
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.00GHz

This game is still laggy however.

[BRMateus2]

Beta v18.0.5 has EAC working back, finally. But you have to run it multiple times until it does not show the EAC error.

[Byter09]

I can sadly not confirm @BRMateus2's results. I verified my game data, deleted the prefix to have a fresh start and I still get the EAC GameClient error even after starting it 10 times in a row. I'm open to suggestions for what else I could try...

Current version: Beta v18.0.5
Proton: 4.11-11
Distro: Manjaro Linux x86_64
Kernel: 5.4.6-2-MANJARO
RAM: 16 GB
GPU Driver: X.Org Radeon RX Vega (VEGA10, DRM 3.35.0, 5.4.6-2-MANJARO, LLVM 9.0.0)
Driver Version: 4.5 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 19.3.1
GPU: AMD ATI Radeon RX Vega 64
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz

[greymood09]

@Byter09 What DE are you using? lxde on arch gave me a startup error but switching to lightdm got rid of the startup error.

[Byter09]

@greymood09 I'm using KDE. Does something like this really have that much impact? Wow.

[LevitatingBusinessMan]

Ye I have 8gb, the game used to run on 4gb. But that was a long time ago.

[matthewthomasoc]

I am unable to get any microphone working using the latest version of Proton (8.0-4). Same issue with the latest version of Proton-GE-25. The game says 'No input device' when I try to use VOIP. If I disable forcing a specific version, the microphone works. I checked the Proton logs and it seems it uses Proton Experimental when a version is not specified.

Steam Runtime Diagnostics

Proton logs (version 8.0-4) attached below, I had to split it in half due to file-size.

steam-393380-1.log
steam-393380-2.log

[Vespergrain]

I fixed it by uninstalling and reinstalling the game. Also proton experimental is what I'm rocking and it worked after that fix.

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On Fri, Dec 29, 2023, 11:38 Mostafa Touny ***@***.***> wrote: The game does not launch for me. Steam logs x86_64-linux-gnu-capsule-capture-libs: warning: Dependencies of libnvidia-pkcs11.so.545.29.06 not found, ignoring: Missing dependencies: Could not find "libcrypto.so.1.1" in LD_LIBRARY_PATH "/usr/lib/libfakeroot:/usr/lib32:/usr/lib:/home/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Squad", ld.so.cache, DT_RUNPATH or fallback /lib:/usr/lib ProtonFixes[11595] INFO: Running protonfixes ProtonFixes[11595] INFO: Running checks ProtonFixes[11595] INFO: All checks successful ProtonFixes[11595] INFO: Using global defaults for "Squad" (393380) ProtonFixes[11595] INFO: No protonfix found for "Squad" (393380) Game 393380 created interface STEAMAPPLIST_INTERFACE_VERSION001 / AppList Proton logs are attached steam-393380.log <https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/files/13795225/steam-393380.log> — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#938 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AUL6JILUXXXB2XPWOIG5APTYL35XRAVCNFSM4FSJAK62U5DIOJSWCZC7NNSXTN2JONZXKZKDN5WW2ZLOOQ5TCOBXGIZDGOBVHE2Q> . You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[Nukola16]

EAC error on Pop OS. Also microphone not found.

[aCeTotal]

After the last patch, I struggle with blurry mouse movements. No settings make any difference and I have the problem in both NixOS and Arch with the same hardware. Hyprland + Nvidia 2080Ti. Cache is cleared.

[In-line]

EAC error on load. Seems they decided to disable Linux support in EAC settings.

[aCeTotal]

AntiCheat/Multiplayer does work on Arch and NixOS, but I have extremely pulsating∕shaking artifacts on all Objects/Mesh with Nvidia and Wayland. Both Arch and NixOS with fresh install, regardless of settings. Not only associated with the mouse as I wrote earlier, but the mouse amplifies the problem extremely with every little movement. Even the Team selection page does have this problem.

All other games I have play like butter.

[LevitatingBusinessMan]

I have some weird artifacts and horrendous performance but it's completely playable for me. That's on radeon

[In-line]

It seems, that some particularly glibc developers decided to break backwards compatibility by removing a random flag from glibc, Arch Linux maintained a patch to revert that change, but recent update removed it.

#6051 (comment)

Solution to fix EAC splash screen problem is

1. Use Flatpak
2. Use patched version of glibc (GLIBC update broke EAC for most games that use it #6051 (comment))

[ztx-lyghters]

Replying to #938 (comment)

I can confirm this, it turned out to be a glibc issue on Void Linux, Flatpak version of Steam solved that problem. I'm on Gentoo now, Squad works out of the box here.

[SHOTbyGUN]

edit:nvm installed 32bit too and it works now.
yay -S lib32-glibc-eac glibc-eac

[In-line]

Hello Inline,
I brought this to the Dev team and was told that we are currently updatate as we can be on our end, we are on the latest version of the EOS SDK which EAC comes with. The issue may need to be fixed by Epic / EAC on their end.
Also as a reminder we do not natively support Proton or Linux so there will be no ETA for a hotfix on our end.

It seems, if somebody can pinpoint what OWI needs to update, they will update it. That was a message from email support thread.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1brh5i2/what_is_exactly_required_from_game_developer_to/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[In-line]

@kisak-valve What is exactly required to change on the games end to support EAC without DT_HASH?

[In-line]

I got a response from @kisak-valve here. I will try to message OWI support to move issue forward

#7619 (comment)

[cncz42]

The glibc issue is still present after a decent amount of patches on the dev's end, the mic issue also still affects proton versions past 8.0-ish.

[alasky17]

@cncz42 Does the mic work on Proton Experimental? According to the report from @matthewthomasoc it sounds like the mic was broken on Proton 8.0-x but working on experimental? We do have some patches that were not safe enough for Proton 8.0-x or 9.0-x and live only in experimental right now.

If the mic is still broken on experimental, could you describe specifically which Proton versions are working vs failing?

[Nukola16]

IIRC it works flawlessy with Proton-GE. Try it. Il Lun 20 Mag 2024, 16:36 alasky17 ***@***.***> ha scritto:

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@cncz42 <https://github.com/cncz42> Does the mic work on Proton Experimental? According to the report from @matthewthomasoc <https://github.com/matthewthomasoc> it sounds like the mic was broken on Proton 8.0-x but working on experimental? We do have some patches that were not safe enough for Proton 8.0-x or 9.0-x and live only in experimental right now. If the mic is still broken on experimental, could you describe specifically which Proton versions are working vs failing? — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#938 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AY6VYSY2HFNF72F2AOQFRWTZDIC63AVCNFSM4FSJAK62U5DIOJSWCZC7NNSXTN2JONZXKZKDN5WW2ZLOOQ5TEMJSGA2TSMJXGY4A> . You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[cncz42]

@Nukola16
Which version of proton-ge? I tried the latest 9.5 and the mic is still broken, have to go back to 7-55 for it to work

[Nukola16]

I don't remember really. It had a 6 in it. Maybe 5.6 or 3.6. I don't think it matters really though, just get the latest version. I also think that I had to do some tweaks with Pop-OS!, but I can't remember at the moment. There's a guide somewhere on the internet. Google "squad mic not working on Linux". Remember to do a TimeShift image before tweaking. I'd help you more and even play with you but EAC has problems on Arch right now. Good luck. Il Lun 20 Mag 2024, 20:37 cncz42 ***@***.***> ha scritto:

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@Nukola16 <https://github.com/Nukola16> Which version of proton-ge? I tried the latest 9.5 and the mic is still broken, have to go back to 7-55 for it to work — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#938 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AY6VYS7JW52NN7FO2B7ZYKDZDI7G7AVCNFSM4FSJAK62U5DIOJSWCZC7NNSXTN2JONZXKZKDN5WW2ZLOOQ5TEMJSGA4TSNBTHA4A> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[cncz42]

Latest update appears to have updated EAC, fixing the glibc crash. Newest proton ge also fixed the mic. All is well!

[kisak-valve]

Squadgame crash

Issue transferred from #8139.
@fzdas212 posted on 2024-10-05T03:05:54:

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues:squad
• Steam AppID of the game:393380

System Information

• GPU: RTX4090
• Video driver version: nvidia 550.120.
• Kernel version: 6.8.0-45-generic
• Link to full system information report as Gist](https://gist.github.com/fzdas212/e854672c36e8f51ae7cbd7881f9c407e)
• Proton version:9.0-3

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.

(https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ee4bfe02-6784-4448-97c8-e88d40446dad)

The game crashes approximately every half hour.

steam-393380.zip

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@fzdas212 commented on 2024-10-05T03:10:52:

I still have this issue on my other computer as well.

[ipimpat]

Just wanted to report that I'm experiencing an issue with the in-game server browser, all servers are reported with a ping of 9999. Consequently, no servers are displayed unless I adjust the "Maximum Ping" setting to "Unlimited" by moving the slider all the way to the right in the filter search preferences

[LevitatingBusinessMan]

That sounds similar to an issue with battlefield 4. I think in that particular case it could be fixed by enabling some raw socket capability on the binary. Anyway the proton log could be helpful.

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On December 28, 2024 9:23:27 PM GMT+01:00, kimse ***@***.***> wrote: Just wanted to report that I'm experiencing an issue with the in-game server browser, all servers are reported with a ping of 9999. Consequently, no servers are displayed unless I adjust the "Maximum Ping" setting to "Unlimited" by moving the slider all the way to the right in the filter search preferences  -- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: #938 (comment) You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Message ID: ***@***.***>

[matthewthomasoc]

Replying to #938 (comment)

I am having this same issue, it makes it very difficult to find servers with a reasonable ping.

Here is a Proton log where I simply started the game, went to the server browser, waited for it to load the servers, then exit the game:
https://gist.github.com/matthewthomasoc/a43adc124459a0be838c2337111cb994

Here is some relevant snippets with the probable issue:

LogSquadOnlineServices: Icmp ping failed, FIcmpEchoResult: 4, Reported Ping: -1.000000

273390.301:0188:018c:warn:seh:OutputDebugStringA "[2025.01.16-22.42.09:354][418]LogSquad: Warning: SQFindSessionsCallbackProxy: Failed to ping {7th} 7th Rangers - Operation Quicksilver, defaulting to MAX_QUERY_PING\r\n"
273390.301:0188:018c:trace:seh:dispatch_exception code=40010006 flags=0 addr=00006FFFFFC1CF07 ip=6fffffc1cf07
273390.301:0188:018c:trace:seh:dispatch_exception  info[0]=00000000000000a7
273390.301:0188:018c:trace:seh:dispatch_exception  info[1]=000000002f55e2a0
273390.301:0188:018c:warn:seh:dispatch_exception "[2025.01.16-22.42.09:354][418]LogSquad: Warning: SQFindSessionsCallbackProxy: Failed to ping {7th} 7th Rangers - Operation Quicksilver, defaulting to MAX_QUERY_PING\r\n"