S3TC failure

[nihilmancer]

I get a failed to load S3tc error when I start TF2. I'm running Linux Mint 13 but a few days ago I was running Ubuntu 12.10 and TF2 was launching fine. Any ideas on what the problem could be?

[nihilmancer]

I'm on my mobile (at work) but when I get a chance I'll post the exact wording of the error message.

[c3141st]

S3TC is a patented texture compression algorithm. A lot of distros don't bundle it by default as a result. I don't know what it is on Mint but on Arch the package name is lib32-libtxc-dxtn. Perhaps there is something similar in the Mint repositories.

[Kano]

http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/882966056703960725/#c882966056710148192

[sortie]

sudo apt-get install libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0:i386 (add the :i386 part if on a 64-bit system) (installs a patent-free implementation of s3tc)

[kavika]

This solved the problem for me on my 64 bit system (`sudo apt-get install libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0:i386`) after I installed xorg-edgers on top of mint. Working A'OK now! This fixed Dota 2 and Legend of Grimrock for me, so I no longer have to do the `force_s3tc_enable=true steam` work-around (which also worked for me - but this is way easier).