Amnesia won't launch (Linux)

[martin.redsupra]

I've installed the beta of Steam and purchased Amnesia. Everything is fine until I go to play the game. An 'empty' window called Amnesia: The Dark Descent Launcher opens but then nothing happens. At all. No error messages either. I cannot close it without killing the process.

I've tried updating the video drivers but that hasn't helped.

Any ideas?

[The Raccoon]

delete it then install it again

[shelter]

I have the same problem.
OS - Xubuntu 12.04

[Grundik]

Debian x64, same issue. Application just crashes:

$ ./Amnesia.bin64 
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
...
Core was generated by `./Amnesia.bin64'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0  0x00000000006e82c0 in cLuxPreMenu::cLuxPreMenu() ()
(gdb) backtrace
#0  0x00000000006e82c0 in cLuxPreMenu::cLuxPreMenu() ()
#1  0x00000000007d89fb in cLuxBase::InitGame() ()
#2  0x00000000007dc664 in cLuxBase::Init(std::string const&) ()
#3  0x000000000068d960 in hplMain(std::string const&) ()
#4  0x000000000091b889 in main ()

[us]

Hi.
I'm having the same Problem.
My solution:
I'm starting the script "run_steam.sh" from "~/Steam/SteamApps/common/Amnesia The Dark Descent". The games run fine.

Have fun

[Grundik]

Doesn't work for me

[Grundik]

Windows version runs fine with wine.

[mashdar]

Originally posted by us:

"run_steam.sh" from "~/Steam/SteamApps/common/Amnesia The Dark Descent"

Was having the same problem. This works for me!
For reference, I'm on Ubuntu 12.04 on a Llano A4-3300M laptop. Tried with default Ubuntu fglrx and 12.10 fglrx. Both had the "empty window" crash.

[shelter]

Originally posted by us:

I'm starting the script "run_steam.sh" from "~/Steam/SteamApps/common/Amnesia The Dark Descent". The games run fine.

It's works, thanks !

[nydde]

same here, run_steam.sh works

[martin.redsupra]

run_steam.sh working for me too. Thank you 'us' for the solution. Shame I took the first option and reinstalled before that.

[martin.redsupra]

Disabling 'Enable Steam community in-game' option fixes this too.

[Grundik]

No, does not work for me. Both x32 and x64 versions crashes with same backtrace, no matter what.

[Grundik]

Problem solved by switching game language hither and thither in launcher.

[mashdar]

Grundrik, were you actually getting to the launcher? The rest of us were not even getting that far; an empty window would appear when we clicked "play" from Steam.

One issue with run_steam.sh is that it does not count play time in the Steam interface, if you care about that. Will try disabling community in-game later to confirm.

[Grundik]

As I shown before in backtrace, in my case game was crashing in amnesia.bin[64] binary, after clicking "play" in launcher. Or by manually executing game binary.

Now game runs fine, seems like game settings were somewhat broken.

So, there is some different bugs.