Wompo
Published
Patience and lowering graphics settings help
Having vertical synchronisation on or anti-aliasing set to higher than low severely lowered the framerate.
On first run the menus were glitchy and would not save settings.
When starting a new game and every few tens of minutes of gameplay the game will go to a black screen. It takes several minutes for the gameplay to continue. This seems like an issue with loading screens.
Played through the first mission. The game works by choosing Safe Mode from the launch menu. The background is plain white in the main menu but does not affect its usability. This "plain whiteness" bug also briefly appeared as a box in the first mission but did not affect the gameplay in any way. During loading screens and cinematics the audio can stutter and distort a bit.
Switching the Steam Play compatibility tool for the game to Proton 3.16-9 fixed the server joining crashes
Unplayable with a mouse. Controller seems okay.
Disabling reverb from the game's audio settings helped with this.
Mouselook stutters a lot.
The first time I started playing the game returned to the main menu right after the cutscenes in the beginning. The second time it worked as intended.
I played through a short section of the beginning, which only consisted of moving around and interacting with the diving device. I didn't test out how the game works in actual combat.
I tried various launch parametres to fix the stuttering mouse issue, but nothing worked. They did help with the overall stuttering of the game though, at least to some degree. Take a look at the Tinkerer reports for those.
If you have a controlled plugged in, the game defaults to it and prevents using the mouse and keyboard, even for the main menu. You can disable the controller from the game's settings.
Looking around with the controller does not have the same stuttering issue as mouse controls have. If you're fine with using a controller the game seems like it should be playable. However, I'm giving this a thumbs down because most people prefer using a mouse and keyboard for these types of games.
I have been playing the Invasion of Normandy campaign. The game crashes occasionally when loading a new mission. Restarting the game and retrying one or more times works. Cutscenes have bad framerates. No other issues to report.
Played the first solo level for about 20 minutes. Performance is not very good, but I have not tested this game on Windows to compare. Weird sharpness effect on some text.
The only issue I found is a minor one: When the game loses focus while on the main menu, it gets scrolled up. One has to restart the game to fix this.
Played through the single-player campaign modes of the main game and the two expansion packs
There was some heavy graphics glitching in the Extraction Point expansion which made the game impossible to continue. However I then noticed that the game was set to run on Proton version 4.x for some reason. I switched it to version 5.x and the problem was fixed. Still had a little bit of graphical oddities but nothing major.
The Perseus Mandate expansion has a problem of the game kicking you back to the main menu on level change on occasion. This also seems to happen on Windows. Found a fix on the Steam forums: Temporarily lowering the graphics quality to minimum let me get past the level change.
Runs pretty much perfectly
An insignificant issue: The loading screen flickers.
You might need a relatively powerful PC to get a constantly high framerate in this game
Performance is not great, but judging from the game having slight performance issues on GeForce NOW as well the game might not be very well optimised.
Played Objective mode on the map Nuked. Slight video and audio stuttering.
The audio starts stuttering and distorting after having played for about half an hour.
The game starts only when using Wine D3d11. The performance could be better, but it's perfectly playable. Some graphics settings don't seem to affect the framerate until the display mode is changed. The mouse lags a little bit sometimes. On some occasions the mouse cursor gets hidden. This is fixed by going to desktop with Alt + Tab or Command + End for example, and then returning to the game.
Some framedrops and minor bugs. Overall playable enough.
There's a slight flickering effect when launching the game that can be fixed by switching the display option between fullscreen, borderless fullscreen and windowed.
Sometimes the game freezes when switching between it and the desktop.
During combat the framerate can go down to around 20 frames per second.
Proton-5.21-GE-1 GloriousEggroll
https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom/releases/tag/5.21-GE-1
Moving your character around tends to stutter a bit, but it's not a big problem.
Works fine.
An error text about a missing image file showed up when I had a full set of charges and tried to add another one, but it didn't cause any functionality problems.
Enjoyability depends on your tolerance to low and inconsistent framerate
Frequent severe framerate drops. Lowering graphics quality settings helps, but does not resolve the issue completely.
Some Windows players seem to also have this problem. I lowered the volume levels from the game settings and the audio crackling and brief losses of audio became much less frequent.
Occasional small artifacts on the screen. When you move closer to objects and they get more detailed, they might appear partially black for a brief period.
Some Windows players seem to also have this problem. The aiming would become laggy after playing for a while (maybe 30+ minutes). This became much less frequent by modifying ROEngine.ini located at steamapps/compatdata/35450/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/My Documents/My Games/RedOrchestra2/ROGame/Config/ in the following way:
From:
[TextureStreaming] PoolSize=160
To:
[TextureStreaming] PoolSize=4000
The game has performance problems even on Windows. Not sure how it compares to Steam Play.
Punkbuster. No problems with it on Steam Play.
Gives an error message
"Fatal error detected: INTERNAL ERROR: cannot create temporary directory!"
Tried both the default and the DirectX 10 launch options. Tried the two applicable common tweaks, PROTON_USE_WINED3D and PROTON_NO_ESYNC. Tried with both the default and Beta (3.16-4) Proton versions. The game shows a splash screen, a black window and then closes.
After the splash screen you need to click a mouse button to get past the black screen. The performance is way better when using Wine D3d11. (Solid 60 frames per second instead of 30 to 40.)
Using Wine D3D fixed graphical glitches.
Shadows were casting long thin lines before I started using Wine D3D.
Gamepad was not detected with Proton 5.13. Switching to Proton 5.0 fixed the issue.
Tried with all three tweaks, with and without the game launcher. No success. Keeps either closing on launch, launching a black window which closes after about two minutes or giving fatal errors.
