Age Of Empires II: Definitive Edition (Invisible Units, Unplayable)

[MaMo7x]

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Age Of Empires II: Definitive Edition
• Steam AppID of the game: 813780

System Information

• GPU: RTX 3060 Mobile
• Video driver version: nvidia 565.77
• Kernel version: 6.12.10-arch1-1
• Proton version: 9.0-4, Experimental, Hotfix; all of these
• System Specifications from steam.

I confirm:

• that I haven't found an existing compatibility report (that relate to same problem) for this game.
• that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available.
• I cleared all the cache and compat files related to the Game beforehand.

Also, since the game is in an NTFS drive I had to mount it with the following command in order to first make the game work:

$ sudo mount -o uid=my_user_id,gid=my_user_id,ignore_case -t lowntfs-3g /dev/nvme0n1p5 /media/G

PS: I've redacted my linux username by place holding it with my_user_id

PROTON_LOGS:
steam-813780.log

Symptoms

All Units can neither be seen nor selected (through mouse drag) but only get visible when they are animating. Which leaves the game unplayable!
Here's a screenshot of Game benchmark to demonstrate what my problem is:

During benchmark screen is supposed to be full of units.

Reproduction

Install the game with ALL DLCs and try to host single/multiplayer/map editor/benchmark whatever you like and it won't show units and make them un-selectable through mouse drag (but can be selected through shortcut keys and do actions).

Post thoughts

I'm not sure if game works without DLCs but I don't want to delete 18.5GB of DLC. Since I also use it on my Window Machine.

Also, I've tried disabling Enhanced UHD pack (even further disabling every option I can), these are the settings with which I ran the benchmark demo:

[MaMo7x]

nvidia-smi, response while the game is running.

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 565.77                 Driver Version: 565.77         CUDA Version: 12.7     |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |           Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                        |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 ...    Off |   00000000:01:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| N/A   60C    P3             28W /   80W |    3042MiB /   6144MiB |     39%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
                                                                                         
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                              GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A       679      G   /usr/lib/Xorg                                  18MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      2553      G   ...local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam          2MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      2667      G   ./steamwebhelper                               52MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      2733      G   ....local/share/Steam/logs/cef_log.txt        561MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A      4145      G   ...teamapps\common\AoE2DE\AoE2DE_s.exe       2334MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

[MaMo7x]

Ok, I made a copy of my game to disable all DLCs and I met with same issue. Please help.

[kisak-valve]

Hello @MaMo7x, we're using one issue report per unofficially supported game title, so I've gone ahead and transferred this issue report to #3189 (comment).