r/ascensionproject

System:

- Linux Mint 22.3 (Cinnamon)

- Laptop with hybrid graphics: Intel Iris Xe (ADL GT2) + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU (Optimus)

- NVIDIA driver 595.71.05

- CPU: Intel i7-12650H (AVX2/SSE4.2 present, not a CPU issue)

- Wine: wine-ge-8-26-x86_64 (community-recommended version)

- Launcher version: 1.0.101, Electron 42.1.0 (from Crashpad annotations)

Problem:

Ascension Launcher.exe starts (shows "running" in Lutris) but never shows a window. After 2-90 seconds (inconsistent timing), the main process (CrBrowserMain) terminates. A Crashpad dump is always generated.

Technical analysis of the crash dump (via minidump parsing):

- Exception code: 0x80000003 (STATUS_BREAKPOINT)

- Always at the same address: Ascension Launcher.exe+0x1E83CD5

- Disassembly at this location shows `call __security_check_cookie` followed by `int3; ud2` on failure - i.e. this is a GS stack-cookie failure (a real stack buffer overflow caught by the compiler's stack protector, not an intentional compatibility check)

- The crash is non-deterministic: with identical settings, it sometimes crashes in 2-3 seconds, other times survives 90+ seconds (race condition)

What I've tried (without lasting success):

1. Fully clean wine prefix, official installer script (win10, corefonts, dotnet48, vcrun2015 - correct order)

2. wine-ge-8-26 (the recommended version)

3. --disable-gpu --use-gl=swiftshader --disable-gpu-compositing --in-process-gpu

4. WINEDLLOVERRIDES=winevulkan=disabled (blocking wine's Vulkan translation layer)

5. Forcing dxgi/d3d11/d3d9 to builtin (instead of DXVK native)

6. LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 (system had mixed LANG=en_US + LC_NUMERIC/MONETARY=nl_NL)

7. Windows version override to win10 (build 18362) - the dotnet48 winetricks verb had silently reset it to Win7/7601 without restoring it

8. Vulkan restricted to only the NVIDIA GPU (VK_ICD_FILENAMES) + __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD

None of the above eliminates the crash - they only seem to (unreliably) affect how quickly it happens.

Question: Is this a known issue? Is there a way to pin to an older, stable launcher build instead of the "latest"/"latest-v2" bootstrap?

I was questing in Silverpine Forest and got a bit stuck there. Where can I start new lines of quest? The Board (in capitals which usually recommend you new questlines) doesn‘t have any quests.
What can I do?

doesnt this give infinite free adverting for ascension? if ascension and main dev gets away with it and keep it alive ; since he have 2 5m houses from ascension donation shop ; can move hosting outside Blizzard territory

Hey I spent the whole day today trying to get the game to work and I finally managed it, with the commands from the official website (not the ones from lutris although trying that one might have helped me in the long run).

I am using Omarchy distro (Arch-based)

The game is a bit quirky though, still running it on Lutris with ProtonGE 10-32 (I know there is 11-1 out already but its working now and I dont want to break it).

It only recognizes 60hz even though my monitor is 120hz, I cant fullscreen it, a terminal like black screen opens alongside the game with logs and I cant close it.

Well, any tips and tricks are greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.

Like title says, will it stay or go. Curious what are people's thoughts? Me personally I hope they find a way to keep going.

I'm having severe issues with the launcher. It keeps freezing and saying "download failed." Sometimes, it just stops updating, and I can't see any progress on the bar. Tried downloading and redownloading the launcher from the websites multiple times, but nothing works.

Is there a direct download for the entire game? They had something similar on Warmane, and it was very simple and convenient.

anyones download also stuck at around 5-6 mb/s. wondering if its my wifi or the just because of the new release and everyone is downloading right now.

Can't get past the login screen

I downloaded the ptr launcher and can‘t find CoA in there. Yes I know, it will be officially released in 2 days. But I‘m unpatient as hell

Is there no thread or comments about *Ascension: Conquest of Azeroth*, or am I just not finding them? I saw a new trailer on YouTube yesterday—and *CoA* itself is set to launch on July 3. But there’s complete silence about it here.

Hello you all! I have very worrying problem, saw a video on youtube about this bomb of a new classes on this Ascension Project so wanted to give it a go but i encoutered huge problem, while downloading the game, Launcher behaves very strangely and makes download go like its on rollercoaster from 7 mb/s to 64 kb/s then back to lets say 2 mb/s and then its shows failed followed up by warning to check my internet which is okay, tried finding some solutions on internet, unfortunetly didnt find some that would help and for some reason cant join discord through client, if somebody knows anything to help i would very gladly embrace your warm advice !

I am new to lutris and am trying to figure out how to set Divxtac.dll to disabled in the overrides section.

EDIT: figured out a work around.
1- Install the game with Lutris
2- go to Steam and add the installed launcher as a non steam game
3- Set launch option to WINEDLLOVERRIDES="divxtac=d" %command%
4- set the Proton version to GE-Proton 10-34, or which ever version works best on your Distro

Everytime I try to download it says download failed, please check internet connection.
Internet runs perfect tho.
I‘m based in Germany, and tips?

just got backing into the server after a break and i have to pay for it now any on know why