Rise of the Tomb Raider crash on start

[Hyper_Eye]

At the end of November I purchased Tomb Raider and Rise of the Tomb Raider. Both games worked fine. Recently I tried to start Rise of the Tomb Raider and it crashes. Tomb Raider works fine. Other vulkan games like Serious Sam Fusion and The Talos Principle work fine. Proton using DXVK works fine. For the life of me I can't figure out what is wrong with Rise of the Tomb Raider. I have seen no other reports of this issue.

The game launcher starts fine. I click Play, I get a black flash or black window (depending on whether I have it configured for windowed or fullscreen) and then I get an error dialog that indicates a sigsegv occured. I have looked at the log and the dump file and it doesn't tell me squat.

I have tried:

• - Using steam runtime vs system libraries
  - Removing the custom libraries that come with ROTTR
  - Downgrading my nvidia drivers
  - Downgrading my kernel
  - Changing my compiler from gcc 9 to gcc 8.3 with a subsequent rebuild of all C++ packages, glibc, kernel, and nvidia drivers
  - Setting LC_ALL=C

I get the same crash no matter what I do. If anyone has the game and can try it I would appreciate it. I would also appreciate any suggestions. I have a similar problem with all Saints Row games that other people don't seem to have but I would like to tackle these one at a time. All of the other native games I have in Steam work.

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[The Main Man]

Same problem here but it works fine in Proton, not just fine but better

[Hyper_Eye]

Same problem here but it works fine in Proton, not just fine but better

I have no issue with using proton to play but this is a mystery that I very much would like to solve.

[The Main Man]

Same problem here but it works fine in Proton, not just fine but better

I have no issue with using proton to play but this is a mystery that I very much would like to solve.

I'm sorry, I missed that in your post, now I see it.

btw I use amdradeon so it's not likely to be graphics driver.

[Hyper_Eye]

What version of glibc do you have installed?

[The Main Man]

What version of glibc do you have installed?

2.30-r6
I have it compiled with -mstackrealign (some other games don't work without it)

I'm on ~amd64

[The Main Man]

Hey, I got it working now, but you have to do this each time you start it.
When that configuration dialog appears try to select 800x600 resolution and check 'Run in a window' checkbox.
Then once in the game from the game options change it back to the resolution you want and fullscreen.
I tried it numerous times and that's the only way I can make it to work.
Trying for example 1920x1080 with 'Run in a window' also doesn't work.
Didn't try resolutions between 1920x1080 and 800x600, also 800x600 but with 'Run in the windows' unchecked.
To summarize ... 800x600 running in a window works and the game runs normally after that, it has to be done every time.

You probably tried that already but that's my experience with this game at the moment.

[sebaro]

Same here, SIGSEGV(11) with the native port, fine with Proton/DXVK.

AMDGPU, kernel 5.4, mesa 19/20, glibc-2.29-r7.

Last time it worked was before the profile migration from 17.0 to 17.1.

'Run in a window' workaround doesn't work for me.

[The Main Man]

btw I removed glibc compile option , it was needed for Borderlands and Kotor II, but since I can't remember the last time I played those games I removed that, recompiled glibc and tried Tomb Raider and it worked, so it's not that either.
amdgpu, kernel 5.5.11, mesa 20.0.2, glibc 2.30-r6

I made a video, I don't know what else I can tell you guys, wish I can help you more.
https://streamable.com/hcyfl

Once again, if I start it 1920x1080 fullscreen it doesn't work
Plus, it happens maybe once out of 10 times that it's not working even with this trick, but on another launch it works again.

[The Main Man]

Works now without that window trick.
I just launch it and it starts 1920x1080 fullscreen, no problems.
There was a problem first time when I tried it, there was sound but no visuals, I killed it and then start it again, it worked.
Then I exited normally from the game and try to launch it 5 times, it worked each time.
So, there is a problem sometimes, but in my case when that happens next launch is okay.

EDIT:
btw I get this when there's a bad launch

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kernel: Watchdog[9628]: segfault at 0 ip 00000000f4edfce7 sp 00000000ab805a90 error 6 in libcef.so[f1bfe000+419c000]

libcef.so belongs to syslog-ng, I get this only when TR crashes, so I don't know how's that related.
I kill by force TR, maybe that's why.....

[Chiitoo]

EDIT:
btw I get this when there's a bad launch

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kernel: Watchdog[9628]: segfault at 0 ip 00000000f4edfce7 sp 00000000ab805a90 error 6 in libcef.so[f1bfe000+419c000]

libcef.so belongs to syslog-ng, I get this only when TR crashes, so I don't know how's that related.
I kill by force TR, maybe that's why.....

I might bet that it's actually referring to the Chromium Embedded Framework bundled by Steam or/and the game. Some conflicting naming there. :]

[The Main Man]

I might bet that it's actually referring to the Chromium Embedded Framework bundled by Steam or/and the game. Some conflicting naming there. :]

You're right, I just checked and the game comes with it

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/mnt/Multimedia/Steam/steamapps/common/Tomb Raider/lib/i686/libcef.so

It might help if that lib would be replaced with the different one, must be x86 though.

[sebaro]

This is about Rise Of The Tomb Raider (2016) not Tomb Raider (2013).

..Recently I tried to start Rise of the Tomb Raider and it crashes. Tomb Raider works fine.

[The Main Man]

Damn, I feel stupid

Thanks for explaining it.

[swanson]

Funnily enough, I'm having the same issue after testing all games after an AMD RX470 to RX5700 upgrade and thought it might be a driver issue but reverting didn't resolve. Played successfully last summer before this testing.

Most of the Feral games crash dumps are Windows type minidumps and you need to use minidump-2-core to convert to normal core files. So from my latest crash;

$ minidump-2-core ~/.local/share/feral-interactive/Rise\ of\ the\ Tomb\ Raider/crashes/archived/abc123.dmp > /tmp/rise.core
$ cd ~/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Rise\ of\ the\ Tomb\ Raider
$ gdb bin/RiseOfTheTombRaider /tmp/rise.core

And then backtrace;

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Core was generated by `/usr/local/steam/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Rise of the Tomb Raider/bi'.
#0  0x00000000007c4408 in ?? ()
[Current thread is 70520 (LWP 11876)]
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00000000007c4408 in  ()
#1  0x00000000007cfabc in  ()
#2  0x0000000000777732 in  ()
#3  0x0000000001cd26ad in  ()
#4  0x0000000001d68989 in  ()
#5  0x0000000001cee6ad in  ()
#6  0x0000000001ceeb96 in  ()
#7  0x0000000001ce161e in  ()
#8  0x0000000000785dce in  ()
#9  0x0000000000787dc5 in  ()
#10 0x000000000098a955 in  ()
#11 0x00000000009927ba in  ()
#12 0x00000000009a3d89 in  ()
#13 0x00000000005265a1 in WinMain ()
#14 0x000000000174f65d in  ()
#15 0x00007f4f27b494c7 in start_thread (arg=<optimized out>) at pthread_create.c:486
#16 0x00007f4f22650a4f in clone () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:95

So it doesn't look as if it's issue in Gentoo system libraries but rather something in the game binary especially if it borking for both propriety Nvidia and open source Mesa drivers. Can't recall if there were any updates to RoTR between last summer and now. I send the automatic crash dumps but still need to raise an actual support case with Feral. EDIT: Now raised.

[sebaro]

With "gdb RiseOfTheTombRaider"

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Thread 70 "WinMain" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x7ffeb9e02700 (LWP 17668)]
0x00000000007c4408 in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00000000007c4408 in  ()
#1  0x00000000007cfabc in  ()
#2  0x0000000000777732 in  ()
#3  0x0000000001cd26ad in  ()
#4  0x0000000001d68989 in  ()
#5  0x0000000001cee6ad in  ()
#6  0x0000000001ceeb96 in  ()
#7  0x0000000001ce161e in  ()
#8  0x0000000000785dce in  ()
#9  0x0000000000787dc5 in  ()
#10 0x000000000098a955 in  ()
#11 0x00000000009927ba in  ()
#12 0x00000000009a3d89 in  ()
#13 0x00000000005265a1 in WinMain ()
#14 0x000000000174f65d in  ()
#15 0x00007ffff767f458 in start_thread () at /lib64/libpthread.so.0
#16 0x00007ffff217798f in clone () at /lib64/libc.so.6

Maybe something changed in glibc-2.29-r7, glibc-2.29-r2 was the last version the game worked with.

[Hu]

Did you use the same CFLAGS for both builds of sys-libs/glibc?

[sebaro]

Did you use the same CFLAGS for both builds of sys-libs/glibc?

Yes.

[swanson]

Just to confirm, you're saying you have actually tested reverting to glibc-2.29-r2 and ran the game successfully?

If so, then comes the joy of finding which patch(s) added in glibc-2.29-r7 patchset glibc-2.29-patches-8.tar.xz from glibc-2.29-r2 patchset glibc-2.29-patches-3.tar.xz caused the problem.

[sebaro]

Just to confirm, you're saying you have actually tested reverting to glibc-2.29-r2 and ran the game successfully?

If so, then comes the joy of finding which patch(s) added in glibc-2.29-r7 patchset glibc-2.29-patches-8.tar.xz from glibc-2.29-r2 patchset glibc-2.29-patches-3.tar.xz caused the problem.

I didn't revert to glibc-2.29-r2 yet, but I'm sure the game was working with this version. r2 is from last year and r7 is from March this year, when the game started to crash.
For now, I'll wait for a response from Feral.

[Hyper_Eye]

Maybe they will surprise you but there is a chance they will respond by saying that Gentoo is not a supported platform. They have done so before.

[swanson]

Well, didn't think it likely, but reverting to glibc-2.29-r2 does not fix the issue.

[Hu]

Did you revert by reinstalling a previously built tbz2 or by building the -r2 version again? If the latter, then environmental changes (such as a different compiler versio or CFLAGS) could be relevant. If the former, then that would seem to rule out glibc entirely.

[swanson]

The latter; rebuilding glibc-2.29-r2 within the current environment. This is assuming glibc is the issue which we can't really tell from the backtrace which is the main problem.

RoTR doesn't appear to have had any patches since 2018 and checking my emerge log the major changes for me since last summer are glibc-2.28-r5 to glibc-2.29-r2 in June and gcc-8.3.0 to gcc-9.2.0 in August but can't confirm exact time last played successfully and sebaro just (?) believes it last worked with glibc-2.29-r2. My CFLAGS haven't changed AFAICR but gcc/glibc ebuild/eclass strip most out anyway.

Anyway, I have a few things to try this weekend from my with borgbackups.

[swanson]

And the problem is ALSA 1.2.2.

Just resolved a problem with Dying Light also not running by reverting from alsa-lib-1.2.2 to alsa-lib-1.2.1.2. And sure enough, retesting RoTR it now runs successfully.

Dying Light uses libfmodex64.so while the RiseOfTheTombRaider binary appears to have it statically linked so there must be some ALSA incompatibility/bug (assuming we're non-PulseAudio users) and that might be an ongoing issue as FMOD EX is dead and won't ever be updated. Nothing obvious in the ALSA changelog so need to bisect.

EDIT: Looks to be ALSA bug 27 fixed by commit conf: change the order of PCM devices in alsa.conf. So should be fixed in ALSA 1.2.2.1 or 1.2.3 whenever released.