[Bug 24392] New: Mass Effect 2: Lair of the Shadow Broker: Skycar chase scene renders nothing

Summary: Mass Effect 2: Lair of the Shadow Broker: Skycar chase scene renders nothing Product: Wine Version: unspecified Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: megatog615@gmail.com

After Shepard and Liara(and your choice of team member) enter the Skycar, a loading screen appears. After the loading screen, a mini game starts where you drive the skycar, presumably to catch Vasir(I haven't been able to see it yet due to this bug). The problem is, the game is rendering a blank image. The only other things that I can see are the UI and the game's darker edges film effect(the circular banding around the edges in the screenshot).

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14 Sep 14 Sep

3:17 a.m.

New subject: [Bug 24392] Mass Effect 2: Lair of the Shadow Broker: Skycar chase scene renders nothing

--- Comment #1 from Evan Goers megatog615@gmail.com 2010-09-13 22:17:12 CDT --- Created an attachment (id=30744) --> (http://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=30744) Blank image with UI and post-process effect.

Attached screenshot.

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4:49 a.m.

New subject: [Bug 24392] Mass Effect 2: Lair of the Shadow Broker: Skycar chase scene renders nothing

--- Comment #2 from Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry@codeweavers.com 2010-09-13 23:49:59 CDT --- Please specify the Wine version you are using (in the Version field above).

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6:28 a.m.

New subject: [Bug 24392] Mass Effect 2: Lair of the Shadow Broker: Skycar chase scene renders nothing

Evan Goers megatog615@gmail.com changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Evan Goers megatog615@gmail.com 2010-09-14 01:28:06 CDT --- The version is the latest git revision as of September 13th.

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1 Oct 1 Oct

4:18 a.m.

New subject: [Bug 24392] Mass Effect 2: Lair of the Shadow Broker: Skycar chase scene renders nothing

--- Comment #4 from Evan Goers megatog615@gmail.com 2010-09-30 23:18:05 CDT --- The scene appears to work with an ATI card and Catalyst 10.9 drivers. Perhaps this is an NVIDIA bug?

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26 Oct 26 Oct

1 p.m.

New subject: [Bug 24392] Mass Effect 2: Lair of the Shadow Broker: Skycar chase scene renders nothing

sylvester.joosten@gmail.com changed:

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--- Comment #5 from sylvester.joosten@gmail.com 2010-10-26 08:00:44 CDT --- I also encountered this exact problem. I remembered that the original Mass Effect had a very similar problem, where the first frame was rendered OK, but everything else was just black. This was due to the motion blur, and disabling the motion blur also fixed that problem.

Doing the same thing for Mass Effect 2 also fixes the problem here, and I was perfectly able to play the Skycar chase scene afterwards. Of course, there is no obvious setting anymore to disable motion blur, but it can still be done in the

BioWare/Mass\ Effect\ 2/BIOGame/Config/GamerSettings.ini

file by adding/modifying the line

MotionBlur=False

in [SystemSettings].

I don't know if the cause of this very similar bug in Mass Effect 1 was known, but I would assume that it returns in some form in all Unreal 3 games.

Cheers, Sly

PS: I'm also running an nVidia card (9600M GT) with the latest drivers

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7:04 p.m.

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Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com changed:

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--- Comment #6 from Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com 2010-10-26 14:04:03 CDT --- Does winetricks glsl-disable also work around it, just out of curiosity?

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12 Dec 12 Dec

7:22 a.m.

New subject: [Bug 24392] Unreal Engine 3: Motion Blur Effect Makes Games Unplayable

Evan Goers megatog615@gmail.com changed:

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27 May 27 May

10:54 p.m.

New subject: [Bug 24392] Unreal Engine 3: Motion Blur Effect Makes Games Unplayable

Xavier Vachon xvachon@gmail.com changed:

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--- Comment #7 from Xavier Vachon xvachon@gmail.com 2011-05-27 17:54:07 CDT --- (In reply to comment #6)

Does winetricks glsl-disable also work around it, just out of curiosity?

Tested with Mass Effect and git (1.3.21), disabling effects does not improve game performance with motion blur on.

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8 Mar 8 Mar

10:14 p.m.

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Burmeister.Fabian@googlemail.com changed:

--- Comment #8 from Burmeister.Fabian@googlemail.com 2012-03-08 16:14:50 CST --- I tried what Sly suggested, but BIOGame/Config/GamerSettings.ini does not exist.

There is BIOGame/Config/PC/Cooked/Coalesced.ini where there is a MotionBlur option under [SystemSettings], but putting it to false does not fix the problem (at least not for me).

Is there still anybody out there who can help me with that? I am using Wine 1.3.28

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10:31 p.m.

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--- Comment #9 from Burmeister.Fabian@googlemail.com 2012-03-08 16:31:18 CST --- (In reply to comment #8)

I tried what Sly suggested, but BIOGame/Config/GamerSettings.ini does not exist.

There is BIOGame/Config/PC/Cooked/Coalesced.ini where there is a MotionBlur option under [SystemSettings], but putting it to false does not fix the problem (at least not for me).

Is there still anybody out there who can help me with that? I am using Wine 1.3.28

I am such an idiot....

looked in the wrong directory, the install directory instead of in the user/dokument.

Slys comment works, thanks

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12 Apr 12 Apr

7:31 p.m.

New subject: [Bug 24392] Unreal Engine 3: Motion Blur Effect Makes Games Unplayable

Loris Zinsou the-lz-himself@orange.fr changed:

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--- Comment #10 from Loris Zinsou the-lz-himself@orange.fr 2012-04-12 14:31:12 CDT --- I confirm this bug with wine 1.5.1. I had to disable the motion blur effect to play the skycar chase. But it seems with my nvidia M 540, motion blur has no real impact on framerate (the game runs fine with max settings). I should also say that motion blur relly decreases eye fatigue (at least to me) bo smoothing the graphics in this game (I had to re-enable motion blur after the skycar chase).

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13 Apr 13 Apr

1:57 a.m.

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Vitaliy Margolen vitaliy-bugzilla@kievinfo.com changed:

--- Comment #11 from Vitaliy Margolen vitaliy-bugzilla@kievinfo.com 2012-04-12 20:57:00 CDT --- Confirming per comment 10.

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5 Jul 5 Jul

5:27 a.m.

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John P Sims jsims2359@gmail.com changed:

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--- Comment #12 from John P Sims jsims2359@gmail.com 2012-07-05 00:27:43 CDT --- Motion Blur appears to be working with wine-1.5.8 in unreal engine based games and no longer needs to be disabled in Unreal Tournament 3, Mass Effect, or Rock of Ages to make games playable.

This bug may be fixed. Can anyone else confirm?

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23 Jul 23 Jul

10:10 p.m.

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Bruno Jesus 00cpxxx@gmail.com changed:

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26 Aug 26 Aug

5:51 a.m.

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GyB gyebro69@gmail.com changed:

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--- Comment #13 from GyB gyebro69@gmail.com 2012-08-26 00:51:58 CDT --- I still have the problem in Wine 1.5.11, tested with Mass Effect and Frontlines: Fuel of War (another game based on the Unreal 3 engine). When motion blur is enabled in those games, framerate drops below 1 fps when the actual game is loaded. Until then everything is smooth (the menus, in-game videos).

Nvidia 250 / driver 304.37

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9 Dec 9 Dec

7:20 a.m.

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--- Comment #14 from Xavier Vachon xvachon@gmail.com 2012-12-09 01:20:58 CST --- I can use motion blur in the Mass Effect series properly now in current wine, Arch Linux and Nvidia hardware. GyB, can you try again and let us know if you are still having issues?

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8:18 a.m.

New subject: [Bug 24392] Unreal Engine 3: Motion Blur Effect Makes Games Unplayable

--- Comment #15 from GyB gyebro69@gmail.com 2012-12-09 02:18:14 CST --- (In reply to comment #14)

I can use motion blur in the Mass Effect series properly now in current wine, Arch Linux and Nvidia hardware. GyB, can you try again and let us know if you are still having issues?

I'm still experiencing the excessive slowdowns in the affected games with Wine 1.5.19 when motion blur is enabled. It also affects Adam's Venture 1 (an adventure game based on the U3 engine). If I enable motion blur, the game becomes unplayable, because framerate drops below 1 fps. I must add that my gfx card isn't considered powerful by today's standards, but the difference in performance whether motion blur is enabled or not shouldn't be so striking.

Nvidia 250 GTS (512 MB) / driver 304.64

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6 Apr 6 Apr

5:57 p.m.

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Jarkko K jarkko_korpi@hotmail.com changed:

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--- Comment #16 from Jarkko K jarkko_korpi@hotmail.com --- Last comment mentiones 1.5.19, we are currently at 1.7.16

Still an issue?

Also Stefan's performance patch is coming later...

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7 Apr 7 Apr

3:14 p.m.

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--- Comment #17 from Béla Gyebrószki gyebro69@gmail.com --- (In reply to Jarkko K from comment #16)

Last comment mentiones 1.5.19, we are currently at 1.7.16

Still an issue?

Also Stefan's performance patch is coming later...

Still an issue on my system, tested with Wine 1.7.16, Nvidia binary drivers 334.21 (Nvidia GeForce GTS 250 gfx card).

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18 May 18 May

7:16 p.m.

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Béla Gyebrószki gyebro69@gmail.com changed:

--- Comment #18 from Béla Gyebrószki gyebro69@gmail.com --- Still present in 1.7.43, Nvidia GeForce 250 GTS + binary drivers 340.76

Can be reproduced in Mass Effect 2 demo version: http://masseffect.bioware.com/me2/info/demo/

In ME2 motion blur is used when the player is running (hold <space> while tapping <w>). Framerate drops below 1 fps on my system when motion blur effect is activated. The CSMT patchset doesn't make it any better.

MassEffect2DemoEN.exe (2 GB download size) sha1: cda9a25387a98e29772b3ccdcf609f87188285e2

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7:49 p.m.

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Matteo Bruni matteo.mystral@gmail.com changed:

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--- Comment #19 from Matteo Bruni matteo.mystral@gmail.com --- Created attachment 51507 --> https://bugs.winehq.org/attachment.cgi?id=51507 Hack

The slowdown with motion blur is likely to be the same issue as bug 27879, I remember that the RGBA16-enabling patch was specifically added for Mass Effect 2 (bug 22548). Also I just recalled bug 30256 which is again around the same basic limitation, where you mention that Nouveau didn't suffer from the bug (I had the feeling you already tested it).

Does the attached (untested) patch workaround the issue? It's an updated version of attachment 38991 from bug 27879.

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19 May 19 May

4:11 a.m.

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--- Comment #20 from Béla Gyebrószki gyebro69@gmail.com --- (In reply to Matteo Bruni from comment #19)

Created attachment 51507 [details] Hack

The slowdown with motion blur is likely to be the same issue as bug 27879, I remember that the RGBA16-enabling patch was specifically added for Mass Effect 2 (bug 22548). Also I just recalled bug 30256 which is again around the same basic limitation, where you mention that Nouveau didn't suffer from the bug (I had the feeling you already tested it).

Does the attached (untested) patch workaround the issue? It's an updated version of attachment 38991 [details] from bug 27879.

The patch does not fix the problem in Mass Effect 1 & 2, nor it helps with bug #30256.

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15 Jun 15 Jun

8:04 a.m.

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--- Comment #21 from Béla Gyebrószki gyebro69@gmail.com --- Yet this could be a Nvidia driver bug as I can't reproduce the problem with the open source nouveau driver.

Wine 1.7.45 Nvidia binary drivers 340.76 (bug is present) Nouveau 1.0.11 (the slowdown when motion blur is enabled is not present, but many levels in ME1 are rendered incorrectly)

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2:44 p.m.

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Matteo Bruni matteo.mystral@gmail.com changed:

--- Comment #22 from Matteo Bruni matteo.mystral@gmail.com --- (In reply to Béla Gyebrószki from comment #20)

(In reply to Matteo Bruni from comment #19)

...
Created attachment 51507 [details] Hack

The slowdown with motion blur is likely to be the same issue as bug 27879

The patch does not fix the problem in Mass Effect 1 & 2, nor it helps with bug #30256.

(In reply to Béla Gyebrószki from comment #21)

Yet this could be a Nvidia driver bug as I can't reproduce the problem with the open source nouveau driver.

Actually it's the same bug. I debugged it further but forgot to comment here.

The patch doesn't help here because the game does a GPU feature check only on the first run. If you delete GamerSettings.ini (which is in ~/BioWare/...) the game should repeat the check and possibly disable motion blur. In my case motion blur was disabled in any case because, AFAIU, the game decided my GPU is too bad anyway for that. Specifically, there is a "CompatLevelGPU" setting in that ini file which is the result of that initial GPU classification. You can enable / disable motion blur and the other "advanced" graphic settings manually with MassEffect2Config.exe or by tweaking the ini file (if you know the name of the relevant configuration key).

Wine 1.7.45 Nvidia binary drivers 340.76 (bug is present) Nouveau 1.0.11 (the slowdown when motion blur is enabled is not present, but many levels in ME1 are rendered incorrectly)

Unrelated, but what's mostly interesting with Nouveau is the Mesa version installed. There have been a few significant bug fixes for your GPU family (NV50) in recent releases and I know Ilia Mirkin would love to get more bug reports and fix bugs :)

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8 Nov 8 Nov

9:21 a.m.

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4 Nov 4 Nov

10:22 a.m.

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Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com changed:

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--- Comment #23 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com --- Closing.

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5 Nov 5 Nov

10:19 p.m.

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