Battlefield 4

[libcg]

Meta-issue for Battlefield 4.

• Working as of 0.5.0
• Exclusive fullscreen (fixed with 6a0e4d8)
• Tessellation
• Vsync
• Implement Advanced MSAA #34
• Implement present from compute #32

[gentoolinux-girl]

BattleField 4 Hangs at Launch

Launching BF4 through Steam, with GRVK (compiled from 2bb8b8e) using Mantle, causes a freeze after a couple seconds; then the screen goes black indefinitely.

Steps

1. Load BF4, go to settings.
2. Set API to Mantle.
3. Reboot
4. Encounter freeze/hang

🗒️ Logs 🖨️ (Click to expand)

grvk.log

=== GRVK 0.5.0 ===
I/00000964/grInitAndEnumerateGpus: app "Battlefield" (01000000), engine "Frostbite" (00C00000), api 00018000
W/00000964/grInitAndEnumerateGpus: unhandled alloc callbacks
W/00000964/grGetExtensionSupport: unsupported GR_ADVANCED_MSAA extension
W/00000964/grGetExtensionSupport: unsupported GR_TIMER_QUEUE extension
I/00000964/grCreateDevice: 1002:73DF "AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT (RADV NAVI22)" (Vulkan 1.3.230, driver 22.2.99)
I/00000964/grCreateDevice: DMA queue remapped to compute queue 1
W/00000964/grCreateDevice: ignoring device coherent/uncached memory type 5
W/00000964/grCreateDevice: ignoring device coherent/uncached memory type 6
W/00000964/grCreateDevice: ignoring device coherent/uncached memory type 7
W/00000964/grCreateDevice: ignoring device coherent/uncached memory type 8
W/00000964/grWsiWinGetDisplayModeList: semi-stub
W/00000964/grWsiWinSetMaxQueuedFrames: semi-stub
W/00000990/ilcCompileKernel: unhandled hull/domain shader type
W/00000984/ilcCompileKernel: unhandled hull/domain shader type
W/00000990/ilcCompileKernel: unhandled hull/domain shader type
W/00000984/grCreateQueueSemaphore: unhandled shareable semaphore flag
W/00000984/grCreateQueueSemaphore: unhandled shareable semaphore flag
W/00000984/grCreateQueueSemaphore: unhandled shareable semaphore flag
W/00000988/ilcCompileKernel: unhandled hull/domain shader type
W/00000988/ilcCompileKernel: unhandled hull/domain shader type
W/00000988/ilcCompileKernel: unhandled hull/domain shader type
W/00000988/ilcCompileKernel: unhandled hull/domain shader type
W/00000984/grWsiWinCreatePresentableImage: unhandled flags 0x1
W/00000984/grWsiWinCreatePresentableImage: unhandled flags 0x1
W/00000984/grWsiWinCreatePresentableImage: unhandled flags 0x1
W/00000984/grWsiWinCreatePresentableImage: unhandled flags 0x1
W/00000984/grWsiWinCreatePresentableImage: unhandled flags 0x1
W/00000984/grWsiWinTakeFullscreenOwnership: semi-stub
W/00000984/grCreateQueueSemaphore: unhandled shareable semaphore flag
W/00000984/grCreateQueueSemaphore: unhandled shareable semaphore flag
W/00000984/grCreateQueueSemaphore: unhandled shareable semaphore flag
W/00000908/grWsiWinReleaseFullscreenOwnership: semi-stub
W/00000984/grCreateQueueSemaphore: unhandled shareable semaphore flag
W/00000984/grCreateQueueSemaphore: unhandled shareable semaphore flag
W/00000984/grCreateQueueSemaphore: unhandled shareable semaphore flag
W/00000984/grWsiWinCreatePresentableImage: unhandled flags 0x1
W/00000984/grWsiWinCreatePresentableImage: unhandled flags 0x1
W/00000984/grWsiWinCreatePresentableImage: unhandled flags 0x1
W/00000984/grWsiWinCreatePresentableImage: unhandled flags 0x1
W/00000984/grWsiWinCreatePresentableImage: unhandled flags 0x1
W/00000984/grWsiWinTakeFullscreenOwnership: semi-stub
W/00000984/grCreateQueueSemaphore: unhandled shareable semaphore flag
W/00000984/grCreateQueueSemaphore: unhandled shareable semaphore flag
W/00000984/grCreateQueueSemaphore: unhandled shareable semaphore flag
W/00000908/grWsiWinReleaseFullscreenOwnership: semi-stub

grvk_axl.log (Empty)

=== GRVK 0.5.0 (AXL) ===

📝 Notes 🗒️

• BattleField 4 does not always successfully launch.

  • Instead it opens a minimized Origin window, and eventually closes.
  • This also happens using GRVK-0.5.0, which is why I compiled a development build.

• The game freezes after about 2 seconds before going blank, or right here:

  • 

• My OS is compiled with -O3 & --march-native, unsure if that is relevant, but I figured certain compiled dependencies might cause problems.

  • Although it seems like the problems are with grGetExtensionSupport.

• I compiled GRVK on a separate, standard Arch Linux machine; as I struggled to get mingw working on Gentoo.

Game Settings

(I opened with DXVK to get this screenshot.)

Launch Options

PROTON_NO_WRITE_WATCH=1 gamemoderun mangohud %command%

System Information

• Operating System: Gentoo Linux
• Kernel: 6.0.8-gentoo-x86_64
• Drivers: Mesa 22.3-0
• Render Session: X11
• Platform: Steam
• Proton: GE-Proton7-41
• Motherboard: B450M DS3H V2
• GPU: Radeon RX 6700XT
• CPU: Ryzen R7 3800XT (@8, x16)

I hope my comment is formatted right. :>

¡Thanks for any help!

[libcg]

@gentoolinux-girl thanks for the report, does it work with stable releases? Proton 7.0-4 and latest stable mesa?

[gentoolinux-girl]

@gentoolinux-girl thanks for the report, does it work with stable releases? Proton 7.0-4 and latest stable mesa?

¡Hello! My apologies for the late reply.

No — I get the same results using:

• >=media-libs/mesa-22.2.3,
• Proton-7.0-4,
• and no launch options.

Where — the 2bb8b8e build will launch but freeze after 2 seconds and GRVK-0.5.0 fails to launch.

---

I have noticed something new: DXVK logs are still created when the game launches — despite running GRVK.

• bf4_d3d11.log (Empty)

• bf4_dxgi.log

• EALink_d3d9.log

• EALink_d3d11.log

• EALink_dxgi.log

• Origin_d3d9.log

• Origin_d3d11.log

• Origin_dxgi.log

Note — before, I was using >=media-libs/mesa-9999, _{(Gentoo's equivalent to mesa-git in Arch Linux)}, not Mesa 22.3.0.

🗒️ Logs 🖨️

grvk.log

=== GRVK 0.5.0 ===
I/00000928/grInitAndEnumerateGpus: app "Battlefield" (01000000), engine "Frostbite" (00C00000), api 00018000
W/00000928/grInitAndEnumerateGpus: unhandled alloc callbacks
W/00000928/grGetExtensionSupport: unsupported GR_ADVANCED_MSAA extension
W/00000928/grGetExtensionSupport: unsupported GR_TIMER_QUEUE extension
I/00000928/grCreateDevice: 1002:73DF "AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT (RADV NAVI22)" (Vulkan 1.3.224, driver 22.2.3)
I/00000928/grCreateDevice: DMA queue remapped to compute queue 1
W/00000928/grCreateDevice: ignoring device coherent/uncached memory type 5
W/00000928/grCreateDevice: ignoring device coherent/uncached memory type 6
W/00000928/grCreateDevice: ignoring device coherent/uncached memory type 7
W/00000928/grCreateDevice: ignoring device coherent/uncached memory type 8
W/00000928/grWsiWinGetDisplayModeList: semi-stub
W/00000928/grWsiWinSetMaxQueuedFrames: semi-stub
W/00000954/ilcCompileKernel: unhandled hull/domain shader type
W/00000948/ilcCompileKernel: unhandled hull/domain shader type
W/00000954/ilcCompileKernel: unhandled hull/domain shader type
W/00000948/grCreateQueueSemaphore: unhandled shareable semaphore flag
W/00000948/grCreateQueueSemaphore: unhandled shareable semaphore flag
W/00000948/grCreateQueueSemaphore: unhandled shareable semaphore flag
W/00000954/ilcCompileKernel: unhandled hull/domain shader type
W/0000094C/ilcCompileKernel: unhandled hull/domain shader type
W/0000094C/ilcCompileKernel: unhandled hull/domain shader type
W/00000954/ilcCompileKernel: unhandled hull/domain shader type
W/00000948/grCreateQueueSemaphore: unhandled shareable semaphore flag
W/00000948/grCreateQueueSemaphore: unhandled shareable semaphore flag
W/00000948/grCreateQueueSemaphore: unhandled shareable semaphore flag
W/00000948/grCreateQueueSemaphore: unhandled shareable semaphore flag
W/00000948/grCreateQueueSemaphore: unhandled shareable semaphore flag
W/00000948/grCreateQueueSemaphore: unhandled shareable semaphore flag

grvk_axl.log (Empty)

=== GRVK 0.5.0 (AXL) ===

[Artoria2e5]

Huh, tried 2bb8b8e action-build on Adrenaline 22.11.2 and got this:
grvk.log (bit different!)
grvk_axl.log (empty)
PROFSAVE_profile.txt

Same initial symptom: first launch shows splash screen in a window then goes fullscreen black. After that it shows no splash and just occasionally the bar-on-top-right loading icon before crashing.

Windows 11 (10.0.22621.963), Intel 8086K. Did an inadvisable "system-wide" install by copying straight into Windows/{System32,SysWow64}.