Demo does not start on openSUSE 12.2 64-bit (KDE)

[chucc]

After installation and trying to start the game, nothing happened at all.

I modified bout.sh to remove the references to Ubuntu commands after reading a comment by Olorin at http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/846939071353572481/

Then I got errors about missing files, and installed the packages libXaw7-32bit and Mesa-libGLU1-32bit.

After that the screen blinks very quickly, and I'm back at the desktop.

Any ideas?

The log can be seen here: http://pastebin.com/wxri5SLp

And system information:

Processor Information:
    Vendor:  GenuineIntel
    Speed: 3068 Mhz
    8 logical processors
    4 physical processors
    HyperThreading:  Supported
    FCMOV:  Supported
    SSE2:  Supported
    SSE3:  Supported
    SSSE3:  Supported
    SSE4a:  Unsupported
    SSE41:  Supported
    SSE42:  Supported
    
Network Information:
    Network Speed:  
    
Operating System Version:
    "openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64)" (64 bit)
    Kernel Name:  Linux
    Kernel Version:  3.4.11-2.16-desktop
    X Server vendor:  The X.Org Foundation
    X Server release:  11203000
    
Video Card:
    Driver:  ATI Technologies Inc. ATI Radeon HD 5670

    Driver Version:  4.2.11931 Compatibility Profile Context
    Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
    Monitor Refresh Rate: 59 Hz
    VendorID Not Detected
    DeviceID Not Detected
    Number of Monitors:  1
    Number of Video Cards Not Detected
    Primary Display Resolution:  1920 x 1200
    Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1200
    Primary Display Size: 20.39" x 12.76"  (24.02" diag)
                                            51.8cm x 32.4cm  (61.0cm diag)
    Primary VRAM Not Detected
    
Sound card:
    Audio device: AV200
    
Memory:
    RAM:  5972 Mb
    
Miscellaneous:
    UI Language:  English
    LANG:  en_US.UTF-8
    Microphone:  Not set
    Total Hard Disk Space Available:  302380 Mb
    Largest Free Hard Disk Block:  280187 Mb
    
Installed software:
    
Recent Failure Reports:

[smaug42]

I can say that it definitely works OK on openSUSE 12.2 64 bit

I had to modify boutvc.sh and remove the Ubuntu app installation crap (seriously? using the start script to try and install things, that's just stupid)

I also had to disable the In-Game Steam Community.

With those two changes, the game launches fine from within Steam.

One thing I did find was that that if you launch the game from CLI outside of Steam, you won't have persistent savegames (they are lost once you exit the game).

[chucc]

Thanks! I found the setting in Steam to disable In-Game Steam Community, and then the game launched.

It does crash if I try to enter the settings in the game though, but it seems like many has that issue, even in Ubuntu.

[Morpa]

On ubuntu 12.10, Demo fails and i get:
...
Possible sounddevice found: OpenAL Soft
alcOpenDevice ...
... complete!
Choosen Sounddevice is: OpenAL Soft
AL Source test successfully found 32 possible sources
Load savegames
Init scene manager
Init character manager
Init item manager
ParticleUniverse: Particle Emitter Type 'Entity' registered
*** Initializing OIS ***
X Error of failed request: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)
Major opcode of failed request: 2 (X_ChangeWindowAttributes)
Serial number of failed request: 7
Current serial number in output stream: 8
AL lib: ReleaseALC: 1 device not closed
Game removed: AppID 226540 "The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles Demo", ProcID 3432
saving roaming config store to 'sharedconfig.vdf'
roaming config store 2 saved successfully
....

[LowEndRobot]

@Morpa, did you try disable In-Game Steam? Your issue very similar which I mentioned on: http://steamcommunity.com/app/221830/discussions/0/828924672590258629/#c828925849184797819

[bingus]

Disabling the in game Community worked to launch it for me (latest Kubuntu) but yeah, the Settings and Save/Load options still cause it to crash.

[smaug42]

I wonder what the difference is here? I'm on openSUSE 12.2 64 bit. I ripped out the Ubuntu specific apt-get crap from the start script, disabled the in-game community and it works 100%. I can go into settings and change anything, save games, load games, sync with the Steam Cloud etc. In other words the game works 100% (minus the de-Ubuntu-ing of the start script)

[chucc]

Could it be related to graphics hardware? I have a ATI Radeon HD 5670.
What do you have smaug42?

[smaug42]

I have nvidia. I've had ATI and it's nothing but trouble.