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Made of Magic And Wires has Torchlight II

Mar 7, 2015 @ 12:32pm

Graphic issues on Linux with Catalyst proprietary drivers

Hi guys, I'm having some trouble with Torchlight II on Linux.

I'm running Arch Linux 64bit with the AMD Catalyst 14.12 drivers.

When starting the game the game everything seems to work fine, until I hit menu selection.

As you can see, apart from some visual glitches like invisible walls and floors, no menu's are displayed either.
Looking at some videos I figured out where the usual buttons are supposed to be. Using this, I managed to get into the Character selection by blindly clicking in the general area, and even switching between certain characters, but that's about as far as I was able, and willing to go.

AMD cards usually have weird stuff like this going on, but I thought maybe you could have a look at it.
Let me know if you require any more information!

Last edited by Made of Magic And Wires; Mar 7, 2015 @ 12:34pm

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proteinfeed has Torchlight II

Mar 7, 2015 @ 1:16pm

Thats typical catalyst on linux.

What GPU do you have? If you are using the 6xxx series you could try the open-source drivers. They may have less performance but are usually less glitchy and are enough for non-demanding games like TL2

johnnie.walker` Mar 7, 2015 @ 1:29pm

I have the same problem with a Radeon HD 5000 Series...

Made of Magic And Wires has Torchlight II

Mar 7, 2015 @ 2:05pm

I'm running with the 5000 series as well, and I know the open-source drivers have come a long way, and are generally more consistent at least.
I kind of dread whenever these things happen though, since switching between video drivers is not quite a matter of flipping the switch and I don't want to go through the whole process every time I want to play a game for a few hours where the open source drivers suddenly don't cut it anymore.

I'm kind of waiting for the open-source hybrid drivers AMD promised us, but I don't know, I might switch before that.

alpha.mad.professor has Torchlight II

Mar 7, 2015 @ 5:32pm

I have the old Radeon 4850 HD with Catalyst drivers 13.1_pre897 on Gentoo. Everything works fine *except* that some of the character models are messed up, missing their heads sometimes and having eyes that go all the way to the floor etc. Nothing that would break the game for me, but annoying. I don't think I can upgrade the driver with this old card so I don't think I'll ever get the "real" look of the game, but it's fun anyway. And so much better than my experience with XCOM which doesn't work at all...

Kakarott

Mar 8, 2015 @ 1:49am

Same here like alpha.mad.professor with Radeon 4770 on Debian Testing with Legacy 8.97.100.7-5

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=403478709
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=403478557

Maybe with Mesa 10.5 /10.6 and open source drivers it will be better. Waiting for them to join Debian…

sickbyte

Mar 8, 2015 @ 1:46pm

Did you try disabling hardware skinning in the graphic options menu? It helped me when I faced similar issues in the main menu (see this thread). The drawback is that HW acceleration will not be fully used, but so far I didn't notice any slowdown.

alpha.mad.professor has Torchlight II

Mar 8, 2015 @ 11:08pm

Thanks for that hint sickbyte, now the graphics are no longer messed up. Like you I have not found performance to be an issue yet. Yay! :-)

Made of Magic And Wires has Torchlight II

Mar 9, 2015 @ 1:46am

After some consideration I have since moved on to the open source stack (though not just because of TL2). This also rid me of this issue, which confirms that it is indeed a Catalyst-specific bug. Good to know there is a workaround for it though!

nah nah bro has Torchlight II

Mar 11, 2015 @ 2:16am

Originally posted by Envious:
My AMD card is so new the open source driver doesn't support it yet, so I just gave up on Linux for life and moved back to Windows, drivers are perfect there.

Have you tried to update your mesa driver?
If you are on ubuntu, I totally recommend you oibaf ppa!
Its awesome!

Tonxonious has Torchlight II

Apr 2, 2015 @ 9:38am

Yeah I got the same bug as you, running the open source driver isn't an option for me (no performance)
Disabling hw skinning is the only way to fix it right now
I had to edit my "~/.local/share/Runic Games/Torchlight 2/local_settings.txt" file and change "ALLOW HWSKINNING :1" to 0
Everything else in the options seem to work just fine, no slowdown here (dual Radeon HD 5770's in crossfire AFR friendly)

And Envious, I'd rather never play a game, Period, than move back to a Microsoft environment. I'm sure there's other Linux users that would agree with me, not to mention Torchlight 2 worked just fine in wine after wine version 1.7.8 (although a bit slower than the native port)

Last edited by Tonxonious; Apr 2, 2015 @ 9:47am

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JediFreeman

Apr 2, 2015 @ 10:23am

FYI - We are aware of this issue and are investigating - disabling Hardware Skinning via your local_settings or rolling back your driver for the time being are valid workarounds.

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alpha.mad.professor has Torchlight II

Apr 2, 2015 @ 11:35am

I've actually switched to the open-source RADEON drivers since my previous post and everything seems to work fine. Indeed I can now enable the hardware skinning feature and none of the vertices get messed up anymore. So I am one happy camper. :-) Admittedly it was somewhat of an ordeal to get everything to work on Gentoo, took me three kernel recompiles to find the correct set of options. But it's doable and worth it.

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