A20 Linux Game crashes while loading

[Pachypithecus]

Starting a new single player game crashes during the loading screen. The loading screen is smooth at first (mouse movement and background music) followed by a choppy experience and then eventually the whole game crashes.

Mods: no

Log: https://pastebin.com/P531H9Qb

Disabling EAC fixes the issue? No

Did you start a new game and re-create the issue? Yes

Have you validated your files through Steam? Yes

After validation, did you re-try with a brand new game? Yes

System Information

Computer

Processor    AMD Ryzen 3 3200G with Radeon Vega Graphics
Memory    8140MB (4035MB used)
Machine Type    Desktop
Operating System    Pop!_OS 21.04

Display

Resolution    3840x1600 pixels
OpenGL Renderer    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER/PCIe/SSE2
X11 Vendor    The X.Org Foundation

Operating System
Version
Kernel    Linux 5.11.0-7620-generic (x86_64)
Version    #21~1624379747~21.04~3abeff8-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jun 23 02:34:03 UTC
C Library    GNU C Library / (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.33-0ubuntu5) 2.33
Distribution    Pop!_OS 21.04

Filesystems
Mounted File Systems
udev    /dev    0.00 % (3.8 GiB of 3.8 GiB)
tmpfs    /run    0.25 % (793.0 MiB of 795.0 MiB)
/dev/nvme0n1p3    /    35.73 % (1.1 TiB of 1.8 TiB)
tmpfs    /dev/shm    18.47 % (3.2 GiB of 3.9 GiB)
tmpfs    /run/lock    0.00 % (5.0 MiB of 5.0 MiB)
tmpfs    /sys/fs/cgroup    0.00 % (4.0 MiB of 4.0 MiB)
/dev/nvme0n1p1    /boot/efi    51.79 % (234.3 MiB of 486.0 MiB)
/dev/nvme0n1p2    /recovery    61.47 % (1.5 GiB of 3.8 GiB)
tmpfs    /run/user/1000    0.02 % (794.8 MiB of 795.0 MiB)

Monitors
Monitor 0    3840x1600 pixels

OpenGL
Vendor    NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER/PCIe/SSE2
Version    4.6.0 NVIDIA 465.31
Direct Rendering    Yes

Processor
Processors
Package Information
AMD Ryzen 3 3200G with Radeon Vega Graphics    0    0:0    3600.00 MHz
AMD Ryzen 3 3200G with Radeon Vega Graphics    1    0:1    3600.00 MHz
AMD Ryzen 3 3200G with Radeon Vega Graphics    2    0:2    3600.00 MHz
AMD Ryzen 3 3200G with Radeon Vega Graphics    3    0:3    3600.00 MHz

Memory
Memory
MemTotal    Total Memory    8140740 KiB
MemFree    Free Memory    606248 KiB
MemAvailable        3228236 KiB
Buffers        171064 KiB
Cached        3348492 KiB
SwapCached    Cached Swap    0 KiB
Active        1532488 KiB
Inactive        5132748 KiB
Active(anon)        300232 KiB
Inactive(anon)        3617528 KiB
Active(file)        1232256 KiB
Inactive(file)        1515220 KiB
Unevictable        108 KiB
Mlocked        108 KiB
SwapTotal    Virtual Memory    0 KiB
SwapFree    Free Virtual Memory    0 KiB
Dirty        12 KiB
Writeback        0 KiB
AnonPages        3145848 KiB
Mapped        1529884 KiB
Shmem        772080 KiB
KReclaimable        180192 KiB
Slab        328788 KiB
SReclaimable        180192 KiB
SUnreclaim        148596 KiB
KernelStack        14256 KiB
PageTables        46160 KiB
NFS_Unstable        0 KiB
Bounce        0 KiB
WritebackTmp        0 KiB
CommitLimit        4070368 KiB
Committed_AS        12420392 KiB
VmallocTotal        -1 KiB
VmallocUsed        80672 KiB
VmallocChunk        0 KiB
Percpu        25984 KiB
HardwareCorrupted        0 KiB
AnonHugePages        0 KiB
ShmemHugePages        0 KiB
ShmemPmdMapped        0 KiB
FileHugePages        0 KiB
FilePmdMapped        0 KiB
HugePages_Total        0
HugePages_Free        0
HugePages_Rsvd        0
HugePages_Surp        0
Hugepagesize        2048 KiB
Hugetlb        0 KiB
DirectMap4k        1907324 KiB
DirectMap2M        6420480 KiB
DirectMap1G        0 KiB
 

 

[Star69]

I'm not too familiar with linux but I did notice you only have 8 gigs of ram and there seems to be some issues with a huge ram need for A20. Others have suggested increasing the swap file size to 8gigs and see if that helps until the ram issue is resolved. Hopefully, a linux person will chime in on this with more or better information than mine.

 

[Pachypithecus]

Awesome that resolved my problem. Thanks @Star69!

For newbs like myself: I created a bootable USB Drive of Pop!_OS. I restarted my machine and booted from that drive. I used `gparted` to resize my existing partition to give myself an extra 32gb. I created a new partition of type `linux-swap`. I applied those changes and then restarted back into my system Pop!_OS.

32gb may be way more than I need. But I love this game and I didn't want to have the same problem and need to try again. You could probably due with like 16gb.