[Bug] Game freezes after aiming with any gun (Linux)

[rene-durazo]

Game freezes after aiming with any gun, in any game mode.
This happens to me 100% of the time after aiming, the time is random tho, sometimes it freezes after aiming for 1 second, others after aiming for 10 seconds continuously I play on Steam Deck on the latest build hash 2a5c3a3

[fgsfdsfgs]

What input method are you using? Built in Steam Deck controller?

[rene-durazo]

Yes I'm using the Steam Deck controller

[fgsfdsfgs]

I can't reproduce this on my own Steam Deck, either in desktop mode or in normal mode.
Are you running the Flatpak build or the normal build? Does this happen on every level or on a specific one? What did you bind your aim button to?

[rene-durazo]

It happens in every level, even in challenges I have my aim mapped to L2 trigger, I have the build from the releases Github page, I'll upload a video

[fgsfdsfgs]

There are two Linux builds on the release page, one is a Flatpak (io.fgsfdsfgs.perfectdark.flatpak), one is just a bunch of binaries in a zip file. Which one is it? There is also a Windows build there, in case you're using that for some reason.

[rene-durazo]

I'm using this one pd-i686-linux.tar.gz

[rene-durazo]

Here's a clip

480.mov

[LonelySpaceDetective]

Not to backseat dev, but have you tried putting manual aiming on a different button? I can't help but wonder if it's somehow an issue with pressing L2 down, rather than with aiming.

[rene-durazo]

I tried it, happen to me again after changing the trigger to L1

[fgsfdsfgs]

No, all suggestions help, especially since I don't really know what the cause of this could be. I suppose you could try the flatpak build instead? Not sure if that's gonna fix anything, but who knows.

[cylonicboom]

I experience this with my steam deck depending on the steam runtime I use:

I started noticing it after the controller patches were merged.

It reproduces consistently with 1.0 (Scout). I don't remember if the game would even run without it on my steam deck. It doesn't reproduce afaict on recent Ubuntu releases or Gentoo (back when I still used it.) My guess is that an older version of SDL doesn't like the controller support implementation. I'm not sure if it's an SDL bug that was fixed or if it's a port bug just masked by recent versions.

Since that's the only available runtime in the dropdown, I installed the latest available from the steam tools section and used a startup script to launch it, like this:

note: this is a linux build despite the .exe extension.

#!/bin/sh
/home/deck/.steam/root/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_sniper/run -- /home/deck/.local/opt/perfect-dark/pd.exe

Or you could run the windows version on proton.

[rene-durazo]

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll give it a shot

[cylonicboom]

@rene-durazo did this work for you?

[cpelley]

Possibly related to/duplicate of #219