(SOLVED) Reloaded-II's ASI loader no longer seems to work in 1.23.x | Persona Modding | Page 1

hoary schooner Nov 28, 2022, 4:23 PM

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I have tested this on Garuda Linux, SteamOS (Deck), and Windows 10. In all situations, the R2 app does run, but attempting to run P5R via ASI loader is not successful.

On Garuda and SteamOS, either the play button in Steam returns to "stop," or it spins out not doing anything.

On Windows, the game is booted up straight away without the R2 console popping up.

Things I have tried:

Starting with a fresh copy of Reloaded
Reinjecting ASI, including deleting the old one + dinput8.dll
Downgrading to v1.22.9

No logs are created because it doesn't seem like R2 is loading at all via ASI.

Windows note: The game still boots with R2 mods if I use the R2-based shortcut, but that's not usable in Linux. As of now, I have to use v1.22.9 to get the mods applied to the game.

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@distant igloo this will apply to you too if it gets resolved.

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Reloaded-II's ASI loader no longer seems to work in 1.23.x

red fractal Nov 28, 2022, 4:25 PM

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if you've tested on three platforms and you get the same results this seems like an R2 bug that needs to be raised with Sewer rather than shared here for the community to try and troubleshoot. Unless I've misunderstood?

distant igloo Nov 28, 2022, 4:25 PM

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Well what is an ASI? Cool that it will help me if it gets fixed but idk what that means lol

hoary schooner Nov 28, 2022, 4:28 PM

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red fractal if you've tested on three platforms and you get the same results this seems like...

My mistake. I thought this was the appropriate venue

turbid veldt Nov 28, 2022, 4:28 PM

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goddamn it

red fractal Nov 28, 2022, 4:28 PM

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lol

hoary schooner Nov 28, 2022, 4:28 PM

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I guess it is now hah

turbid veldt Nov 28, 2022, 4:29 PM

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I might need to bring back JSON parser to bootstrapper

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And take a hit of 200kB

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Reading from environment variables is clearly causing people issues.

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The launcher should be writing these, and bootstrapper picking these up:

hoary schooner Nov 28, 2022, 4:30 PM

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distant igloo Well what is an ASI? Cool that it will help me if it gets fixed but idk what tha...

It’s how R2 gets called when you run the game straight from the Steam library.

turbid veldt Nov 28, 2022, 4:30 PM

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But it seems using environment variables is causing some people problems potentially, am not sure why.

hoary schooner Nov 28, 2022, 4:30 PM

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turbid veldt The launcher should be writing these, and bootstrapper picking these up:

Is there something I can poke around with to see where it’s failing on my end?

turbid veldt Nov 28, 2022, 4:30 PM

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Check if those env vars are set

surreal frigate Nov 28, 2022, 4:30 PM

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+1 for latest version isn't working on steam deck, I can't even get the game to launch with no mods installed via rii

distant igloo Nov 28, 2022, 4:31 PM

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hoary schooner It’s how R2 gets called when you run the game straight from the Steam library.

Oh, coolio then

surreal frigate Nov 28, 2022, 4:31 PM

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Good to know a downgrade will help for now

turbid veldt Nov 28, 2022, 4:31 PM

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I think I'll need to bring back the JSON parser in any case, it kinda dawned on me this causes potential issues on Linux

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when people use Wine with launcher and Proton for game

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in which case Launcher is never ran in Proton's WINEPREFIX and env vars are not set

hoary schooner Nov 28, 2022, 4:32 PM

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turbid veldt Check if those env vars are set

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(Win 10)

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at first I thought maybe it was a case-sensitivity thing, but then I realized that I'm in Windows which doesn't have that problem

turbid veldt Nov 28, 2022, 4:34 PM

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ASI Loader should work on Windows on current update, but I think I'll need to revert the change that removed Loader Config JSON parsing either way.

turbid veldt Nov 28, 2022, 4:34 PM

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turbid veldt in which case Launcher is never ran in Proton's WINEPREFIX and env vars are not ...

because this

hoary schooner Nov 28, 2022, 4:34 PM

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the folders are named Loader/X86 while the env refers to Loader/x86

turbid veldt Nov 28, 2022, 4:34 PM

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Yeah the env var looks right

hoary schooner Nov 28, 2022, 4:34 PM

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it's not working in Windows either

turbid veldt Nov 28, 2022, 4:35 PM

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weird, it runs on my end in Windows

hoary schooner Nov 28, 2022, 4:38 PM

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just tried 1.23.3, and it's still booting straight into the game on Win10

turbid veldt Nov 28, 2022, 4:39 PM

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you are using latest bootstrapper, right?

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just making sure

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since it was updated

hoary schooner Nov 28, 2022, 4:39 PM

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yep. deleted the old .dll and .asi just in case

turbid veldt Nov 28, 2022, 4:39 PM

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Usually it auto updates on launcher launch, if it can find it

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alright

hoary schooner Nov 28, 2022, 4:41 PM

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I did see that update notification on all platforms

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but I still manually deployed when things weren't working

turbid veldt Nov 28, 2022, 4:42 PM

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I guess I'll revert the change for now.

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after some food

hoary schooner Nov 28, 2022, 4:47 PM

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Thanks!

surreal frigate Nov 28, 2022, 4:48 PM

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I'm not sure if my issue is related now, since downgrading did nothing to fix my crash and the logs aren't throwing any errors

turbid veldt Nov 28, 2022, 4:54 PM

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I reverted the change and update should roll out when it completes on GitHub Actions, am gonna nap now.

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Anyway the revert should be live.

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now I nap

hoary schooner Nov 28, 2022, 5:21 PM

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looks like it works in Windows. I'll test it in Linux soon enough. Thanks!

Also, the version number is now 1.24.4 while github says 1.23.4

turbid veldt Nov 28, 2022, 5:22 PM

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Yeah I fixed the tag

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I did mistag it but it should be okay for now

hoary schooner Nov 28, 2022, 5:50 PM

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turbid veldt Anyway the revert should be live.

ASI loader works in Windows but not Linux. It's the same no-action behavior as with other 1.23.x versions

turbid veldt Nov 28, 2022, 5:52 PM

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Ensure Visual C++ Runtime is available in WINEPREFIX

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(I'll likely be asleep soon)

hoary schooner Nov 28, 2022, 5:52 PM

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it's all in there. I just started with a fresh prefix as well, redid vc++ x64/x86 and also .net x64/x86

turbid veldt Nov 28, 2022, 5:52 PM

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But the only other change bootstrapper had was usage of VCRedist

hoary schooner Nov 28, 2022, 5:53 PM

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let me download a different version of vc to see if that matters

turbid veldt Nov 28, 2022, 5:53 PM

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If bootstrapper from 1.22.9 works but not current one it's a Redist issue.

hoary schooner Nov 28, 2022, 5:56 PM

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I got the newest x86/x64 ones from https://learn.microsoft.com/en-US/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170, and it's still doing the same thing

Latest supported Visual C++ Redistributable downloads

This article lists the download links for the latest versions of Visual C++ Redistributable packages.

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click play, waits a second, then goes back to play

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on Deck, it stays at "stop" without returning to "play" or loading the bootloader

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time to bust out the command line to see if anything shows up in the logs there

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the last line is concerning:

wine: Unhandled page fault on write access to 0000000180022E20 at address 0000000170037F6B (thread 0134), starting debugger...

📎 message.txt

hoary schooner Nov 28, 2022, 9:17 PM

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I jumped around to too many devices/proton versions Naofacepalm

turbid veldt Nov 29, 2022, 1:28 AM

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Denuvo :)

turbid veldt Nov 29, 2022, 1:29 AM

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turbid veldt If bootstrapper from 1.22.9 works but not current one it's a Redist issue.

Does that bootstrapper work?

hoary schooner Nov 29, 2022, 1:34 AM

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turbid veldt Does that bootstrapper work?

1.22.9's bootstrapper still works

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I have proton logs and steam command line logs if you think they'll help

turbid veldt Nov 29, 2022, 1:37 AM

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I'm just confused if anything, only change now from 1.22.9 is usage of VCRedist

hoary schooner Nov 29, 2022, 1:39 AM

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which version are you building with?

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I'm using the Nov. 10 VC++ redist covering 2015-2022 (14.32.31931.0)

turbid veldt Nov 29, 2022, 1:41 AM

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Yeah 2015+ should be it

hoary schooner Nov 29, 2022, 1:47 AM

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when running 1.22.9, the Proton log spits out 30573.657:0134:0138:trace:loaddll:build_module Loaded L"Z:\\home\\deck\\.local\\share\\Steam\\steamapps\\common\\P5R\\scripts\\Reloaded.Mod.Loader.Bootstrapper.asi" at 0000000001370000: native

when running 1.24.x, it doesn't have the word "Reloaded" or "asi" anywhere in the log

turbid veldt Nov 29, 2022, 1:58 AM

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Is it just not seeing the Redist at all? Strange

hoary schooner Nov 29, 2022, 2:11 AM

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turbid veldt Is it just not seeing the Redist at all? Strange

it's picking up c:\windows\system32\msvcrt.dll

turbid veldt Nov 29, 2022, 2:11 AM

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Yeah that's the C Runtime

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for MSVC it should also be VCRuntime140.dll IIRC

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I'd need to check DLL header

hoary schooner Nov 29, 2022, 2:12 AM

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turbid veldt for MSVC it should also be VCRuntime140.dll IIRC

this file isn't found in the working log

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the working log is also like 5-15MB depending on what device I'm using. the not working log is only about 175KB

turbid veldt Nov 29, 2022, 2:13 AM

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I guess I'll need to spin up a VM just in case, methinks

hoary schooner Nov 29, 2022, 2:13 AM

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I am trying to compare the logs at the point where R2's asi should be loaded

hoary schooner Nov 29, 2022, 2:35 AM

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I can upload these Proton logs somewhere if you think they'll be at all useful

turbid veldt Nov 29, 2022, 2:55 AM

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Sure if you wanna go for it

hoary schooner Nov 29, 2022, 3:03 AM

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turbid veldt Sure if you wanna go for it

https://easyupload.io/m/bo7k56

easyupload.io

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files ending with "notworking" are running 1.23.4. "working" files are 1.22.9

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if you search for P5R\\dinput8.dll, you can find a few lines after whether Reloaded's ASI is loaded or it fails

turbid veldt Nov 29, 2022, 3:40 AM

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I'm gonna try something

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There's an unsafe optimisation I did

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Related to alignment of DLL

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To save like 1kB

hoary schooner Nov 29, 2022, 3:41 AM

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is there a limited amount of headroom you're allowed to use when injecting mods this way?

turbid veldt Nov 29, 2022, 3:44 AM

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Nah I just wanted to save every byte possible hahaha

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Since the bootstrapper kinda just idles

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I'm bummed it's 60kB larger again because JSON parser

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Anyway can you try this one?

📎 Reloaded.Mod.Loader.Bootstrapper.dll

hoary schooner Nov 29, 2022, 3:46 AM

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where should that dll go?

turbid veldt Nov 29, 2022, 3:46 AM

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In place of the one in latest version

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in x64 folder

hoary schooner Nov 29, 2022, 3:48 AM

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looks like it works!

turbid veldt Nov 29, 2022, 3:48 AM

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Aight, I know what the issue is

hoary schooner Nov 29, 2022, 3:48 AM

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can't really progress more than the console here though. at least everything loaded. Denuvo

turbid veldt Nov 29, 2022, 3:49 AM

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I didn't expect it would have tripped up Wine though

turbid veldt Nov 29, 2022, 3:49 AM

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turbid veldt To save like 1kB

hahaha

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I'm having a snack, I'll roll another update with hotfix when I finish up munching

hoary schooner Nov 29, 2022, 3:50 AM

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hah at least you found the problem

turbid veldt Nov 29, 2022, 3:51 AM

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I was just trying to save space real hard hahaha

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Maybe a bit too hard

#(SOLVED) Reloaded-II's ASI loader no longer seems to work in 1.23.x