Fix for Linux users (especially using PS3 patch)

[wtf? how?]

On Linux Mint, I found that playing with the PS3 patch causes the game to freeze at certain parts. With further investigation, I found that the cause was that the game fails to load file paths with capital letters. For example, files under a 'Sunset' folder will freeze the game (or will not be displayed).
Fix: rename the folder to 'sunset' without the capital 'S'.
Overall, I had to rename every file with a capital letter in it.

For the developers of the game, this is worth noting so you can work around this dependency in the future.
For developers of the patch (and other mods), you may want to warn your users or even distribute files without capital letters.

I don't know if anyone else even has this problem, but Merry Christmas.

[Ohagi-Chan]

Good job on working that out.
I'll make sure to remind the support address about this when I contact them before the next chapter releases (There might be some hope of the AYRFWata group getting a bulk order if they still remember my request after the giveaway for this chapter).

[fllthdcrb]

Typical. Working in an environment where filename case doesn't matter will naturally make developers lazy about such things. They need to be reminded that case does matter when Linux enters the picture. Also, possibly Mac OS X (after a little checking, I see that case-sensitive Mac filesystems are available). There should, perhaps, be some automated mechanism in place to check for such errors.

[prischeyadro]

I have a problem with launching Himatsubushi on Linux. All three previous chapters work flawlessly. It just won't start without showing anything. I use Kubuntu 16.04 and Nvidia 378.13

Any advice, please?

Executable output:

~/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Higurashi 04 - Himatsubushi$ ./HigurashiEp04.x86_64 
Set current directory to /home/yuri/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Higurashi 04 - Himatsubushi
Found path: /home/yuri/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Higurashi 04 - Himatsubushi/HigurashiEp04.x86_64
Mono path[0] = '/home/yuri/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Higurashi 04 - Himatsubushi/HigurashiEp04_Data/Managed'
Mono path[1] = '/home/yuri/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Higurashi 04 - Himatsubushi/HigurashiEp04_Data/Mono'
Mono config path = '/home/yuri/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Higurashi 04 - Himatsubushi/HigurashiEp04_Data/Mono/etc'
displaymanager : xrandr version warning. 1.5
client has 3 screens
displaymanager screen (0)(eDP-1-1): 1920 x 1080
Using libudev for joystick management


Importing game controller configs
Aborted (core dumped)

/var/log/kern.log:

Apr 13 22:33:52 yuri-laptop kernel: [716639.851817] ptrace of pid 6819 was attempted by: gdb (pid 6825)

[fllthdcrb]

Trying to start it directly? Hmm.

I tried that myself. It starts, gets a segmentation fault, then starts again (launching Steam if it isn't already running) and works. Although the first time I tried it, it started running away with memory usage and messed things up a bit. But after that, nothing serious. Why are you trying to start it directly, anyway? Normally, you're supposed to go through Steam (although you can call it from the command line).

(BTW, I see you have 3 screens. Nice. :-) )

[prischeyadro]

fllthdcrb, I've tried to launch the game both from steam and directly (last one is to get the console output in case it is helpful). Same result.

(Nope, I don't have 3 screens. I'm playing on a laptop.)

[fllthdcrb]

Okay. Well, that output isn't very helpful. I think there should be some more information in ~/.config/unity3d/MangaGamer/Higurashi\ When\ They\ Cry\ -\ Ch.4\ Himatsubushi/Player.log

Incidentally, if you want to see console output, it's best to start Steam itself in a terminal.

(Nope, I don't have 3 screens. I'm playing on a laptop.)

Oh, well, that's odd.

[prischeyadro]

Oh yeah, something is there.

Stacktrace:                                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              
Native stacktrace:                                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                              
        /home/yuri/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Higurashi 04 - Himatsubushi/HigurashiEp04_Data/Mono/x86_64/libmono.so(+0x91a46) [0x7f68c20ada46]             
        /home/yuri/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Higurashi 04 - Himatsubushi/HigurashiEp04_Data/Mono/x86_64/libmono.so(+0x348e4) [0x7f68c20508e4]             
        /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0(+0x11390) [0x7f68c7821390]                                                                                      
        /home/yuri/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Higurashi 04 - Himatsubushi/HigurashiEp04.x86_64() [0xf2dd3d]                                                
        /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x39ff8) [0x7f68c5ff8ff8]                                                                                            
        /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x3a045) [0x7f68c5ff9045]                                                                                            
        /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf7) [0x7f68c5fdf837]                                                                              
        /home/yuri/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Higurashi 04 - Himatsubushi/HigurashiEp04.x86_64() [0x46f695]                                                

Debug info from gdb:

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/yuri/.steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
Could not attach to process.  If your uid matches the uid of the target
process, check the setting of /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope, or try
again as the root user.  For more details, see /etc/sysctl.d/10-ptrace.conf
ptrace: Operation not permitted.
No threads.

=================================================================
Got a SIGSEGV while executing native code. This usually indicates
a fatal error in the mono runtime or one of the native libraries 
used by your application.
=================================================================

[fllthdcrb]

Originally posted by prischeyadro:

        /home/yuri/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Higurashi 04 - Himatsubushi/HigurashiEp04_Data/Mono/x86_64/libmono.so(+0x91a46) [0x7f68c20ada46]             

So libmono is crashing... as the message at the end suggests. Still doesn't help that much. I wonder if someone from MG can help with this.

Well, I've seen problems myself. One thing that has helped for me is to delete the directory where the config is stored (the same one you found Player.log in). If you have any save files (all of the ones whose names begin with "save"), move them out first. Then see if you can start the game.

That works for me whenever it screws up and sets the window size to 0. It may or may not help with this crash, although I'm thinking it's a problem elsewhere. If not, I think someone from MG needs to see this. Someone like Ie_kaitsu, perhaps? (Hint, hint...)

[prischeyadro]

OMG, deleting ~/.config/unity3d/MangaGamer/Higurashi\ When\ They\ Cry\ -\ Ch.4\ Himatsubushi/ helped! Thank you so very much! I've already started prepartions for updating to Kubuntu 17.04, lol. You saved me from lots of trouble.

[fllthdcrb]

Glad to have helped. I still think this is something the MG devs need to look into. I wish their engine were a little less buggy.

[ferrelas]

Originally posted by Remi:

For the developers of the game, this is worth noting so you can work around this dependency in the future.
For developers of the patch (and other mods), you may want to warn your users or even distribute files without capital letters.

No no no! No workarounds, this is a serious bug that needs to be fixed, then engine should handle running under a real os, the user should not have to fall in line behind crappy software.

[sa nestaraj]

lolko

[☁️✞𝕯𝖊𝖏𝖜✞☁]

nice