The Monolithic Waveform Mac/Linux Thread

[flibitijibibo]

This is a thread for OSX/Linux-specific bug reports.

Known Bugs

• The game may not launch from Steam. It should at least run from terminal, investigating the Steam issue.

Instructions To Verify the Bug:

1. Validate the game cache.
2. Try everything suggested in the known bugs list. Yes, everything.
3. Produce a step-by-step method of creating the bug, if possible. Use the terminal when testing crashes!

Instructions After Verifying:

1. Post your full specs, including operating system and version, CPU, RAM, and GPU.
If you're on a Mac, you can get this from "About This Mac" and the accompanying "More Info" button. Here's the Apple Support Article about it.

If you're on Linux, use meklu's sysinfo script: http://www.flibitijibibo.com/fedora/mekSysInfo.sh

Your system specs will look something like this:

2012 Retina MacBook Pro
Mac OSX 10.8 (Mountain Lion)
Intel Core i7, 2.6GHz
8GB RAM
nVidia GeForce GT 650M

Host:   flibitTower
Kernel: Linux 3.6.10-2.fc17.x86_64 x86_64
Distro: Fedora release 17 (Beefy Miracle)
CPU:    Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz
        8 cores/threads
        3401.00 MHz
RAM:    7.71 GiB
GPU:    GeForce GTX 560 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
        OpenGL 4.2.0 NVIDIA 304.64
        GLSL 4.20 NVIDIA via Cg compiler

2. Write a full description of the crash/bug
This includes the following:

• Type of bug (unknown crash, graphics issue, sound issue)
  
• Step-by-step process to reach the problem.
  
• Reproducibility of the bug (for instance, 100% if it will happen every time in the exact same place)

3. Link to a crash log or screenshot.
You can get a crash log by running the game through terminal. When the game crashes, a stack trace should appear. Post the full output of the game (including stuff that happens before the stack trace) to Pastebin, then link to it in your report.

If it's a sound-related bug, a description will do.


I apologize in advance for any bugs, and I will get them fixed ASAP!

[flibitijibibo]

Bumping this, since it seems to have gotten lost in the sea of bug reports that this was supposed to centralize... >_<

[flibitijibibo]

New version just went up on Steam.

[flibitijibibo]

Gah, left another memory crash in that build. Even newer version is up now.

[scrawl]

Finally its playable, thank you.

[scrawl]

Bug: The "score" sound after you finished a level does not stop until you go to the next level.

[scrawl]

Also, can you add fullscreen/windowed switching with Alt+Enter? Because right now, there is no way to switch to the desktop. Or use SDL2, which does not brutally grab the whole keyboard anymore. :)

[Goofyword]

I just got this game and was really liking it, and it played...yesterday. I woke up and wanted to play and it won't launch, and I don't know how to do what you said about setting "showlauncher" to false because I don't see that anywhere.

[flibitijibibo]

Verify the cache, and run ./Waveform in terminal. Steam may not be launching it properly.

[Goofyword]

I did that but the same thing happens everytime. It opens steam, says it's opening waveform, nothing happens for a few seconds, then in my steam library it says waveform is snyching for maybe half a second, then stops and it's like nothing ever happened.

[flibitijibibo]

Post the terminal output.

[Be Sure]

I might be stupid, but I don't know how to configure the showlauncher to false or run ./Waveform from the terminal.

[flibitijibibo]

Spotlight search: "Terminal" should get you to the Terminal app.

cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/Waveform/
./Waveform

That should get it going, and if it crashes it'll print a trace.

[Be Sure]

Right when you posted this I figured out how to do both. It is working now. So glad I get to play it. :)

[Goofyword]

line 18: 1084 Segmentation fault is the closest thing I've gotten to something new

[flibitijibibo]

Sounds like the shell is crashing (line 18 is at the end of the script, past the actual game execution!), just uploaded a new archive that may fix this:

http://www.flibitijibibo.com/waveformOSX.tar.bz2

I assume this is on an OSX version below 10.8?