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[Support] OpenRA Red Alert issue reaching main menu

Posted: Sun May 15, 2022 11:54 am
by joeuser
Hi all,

Brought my little son to play with me some rounds of OpenRA Red Alert. Lots of fun. Thanks for all the work to the dev team and community.

A problem we are facing recently is at reaching the main menu: Be it at fresh startup of the game or after finishing a round: It is just stuck ioading resources before the main menu or hanging during the load of the "party menu", where you select players, bots and further game settings. I cannot even click on the "Back" button.

A partial workaround is to delete the .openra folder and "start from scratch". Works in most cases, but sometimes we got to try a few times. It is like it runs in a timeout for something. Tried with wireless and wired connection, no difference. Tried also to start via console to get some further info, but nothing related to an error.

Anyone had a similar problem? Any help is much appreciated.

Many thanks,
Joe

OS: Solus Linux (latest)
OpenRA: 20210321-17

Re: [Support] OpenRA Red Alert issue reaching main menu

Posted: Sun May 15, 2022 12:47 pm
by Sleipnir
You may be suffering from https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/4847

Try setting the environment variable GALLIUM_THREAD=0 before launching OpenRA to work around the freeze.

Re: [Support] OpenRA Red Alert issue reaching main menu

Posted: Mon May 16, 2022 6:28 am
by joeuser
Thanks for the reply, Sleipnir. Appreciated.

Tried that, without any success unfortunately. I don't even think Solus is using the GALLIUM_THREAD environment variable...