Linux Build available

[Radiant]

You can access the Linux build by selecting the 'betatest' branch (i.e. right-click on the game in Steam, select properties, click on the 'betas' tab, and select betatest. Please post in this thread if it works for you or if you have technical issues (like the game not having sound, no achievements, or not starting at all).

It is known to be compatible with Ubuntu 14.0, CentOS 7.2, Debian 8.6, Mint 17, OpenSuSE 12.2, and higher versions of these all. It will likely also work on a number of different systems; if you can try it on one, please let us know.

As the game uses the same engine as Heroine's Quest (i.e. AGS) and HQ works on Linux just fine, we expect to be able to officially release this in a couple of weeks.

[Radiant]

Well, this appears to be working for me. Any thoughts?

[WeAreGeek]

Hi there!

Thanks for making the game available for Linux. I just bought the game.
It starts and the gameplay seems to work as it shoud, but the sound is garbled.
I tried setting the PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC environmental varible to 30 and 60 (which in pretty much all cases I've encountered resolved the issue with garbled sound), but to no avail.

OS: Ubuntu 18.04
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700 @ 3.60GHz
RAM: 32 GB
GPU: GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
NVIDIA driver: 396.24.02
Sound: I'm using the HDMI port from the graphics card: GP 106 High Definition Audio Controller

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Raoul

[EDIT: oops, forgot system specs; added]

[Radiant]

Thank you for your report. I've passed the information along to the people who develop the game engine.

[Radiant]

The advice I received is the following. Please try that and let us know if it resolves your issue..

It sounds a lot like this:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/492467/sound-problems-in-ubuntu-14-04
You could try removing your pulseaudio configuration or try to set the default format and sample rate:
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man5/pulse-daemon.conf.5.html

[WeAreGeek]

Hi thanks for the support!

I already had the tsched=0 option added to /etc/pulse/default.pa. To be sure it was nothing hardware related, I tried a clean install of both Ubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu Gnome 16.04 in Virtualbox. In both sound was working fine, but when starting the game, the exact same thing happened.

You mentioned it was working for you. May I ask what distro you were using? I could try and test that!

[Radiant]

Sorry for not answering earlier... I do not currently use Linux a lot, but the game is known to work on Ubuntu 14.0, CentOS 7.2, Debian 8.6, Mint 17, and OpenSuSE 12.2. My personal test was Ubuntu, the others are done by fans and/or teammates.

[WeAreGeek]

I've managed to fix this!

Everywhere I looked for solutions to problems similar to this, the suggested solution was to add tsched=0 to the line where the module was loaded. However, to fix this I used tsched=1.

So for anyone using NVIDIA HDMI who is encountering a problem with distorted / crackling / sped up sound:

Edit /etc/pulse/default.pa
And change

load-module module-udev-detect

to

load-module module-udev-detect tsched=1

When done, kill the pulseaudio daemon and wait for 10 seconds to have it restarted

$ pulseaudio -k

[kovec]

Hello from 2023! I just bought this game and everything is great... except 2 things:

For me achievements were not working in the Linux build, i got to Chapter 2 with no achievements. Thankfully we have the awesome Steam Proton these days and switching to Proton fixed the problem, though i did have to redo the parts that trigger the achievements to get them to pop.

Secondly, i have 3 monitors and one of them is in the vertical position instead of horizontal. When launching the Linux build, it seems to take the y-resolution from the vertical display and scale the game height to that... which means the game is twice as big and half of it is off the screen. Disabling the vertical monitor fixes the behavior but i don't want to disable a display just for this game. There's no configuration app in the Linux build like there is in the Windows build. I found the config file but there's no documentation for that anywhere. Thankfully once again, running the game in Proton fixed this issue too.

So in summary: for Linux users, while we appreciate the existence of a Linux build, it's a higher quality experience on Proton so i recommend you use that instead. And just for documentation, i'm forcing Proton 7.0.6 on Manjaro 22 KDE.

[Radiant]

Thank you for your feedback. I'm assuming that the development team for AGS has not considered three-monitor systems; you could try bringing that up in the AGS forums. I'm more surprised that the achievements don't work though, they do work for me on Linux.

[kovec]

Originally posted by Radiant:

Thank you for your feedback. I'm assuming that the development team for AGS has not considered three-monitor systems; you could try bringing that up in the AGS forums. I'm more surprised that the achievements don't work though, they do work for me on Linux.

Honestly, Proton is so good these days it's not worth the dev team's troubles to address one odd-ball user :)

Not sure about the achievements either. I had the same issue for a different game a while back. Then that game suddenly had the achievements start working. I have no idea if it's a system-configuration issue or maybe a Steam client issue. I don't think it's a problem with the game itself though. Again though, running it on Proton resolves it.

[Radiant]

ATOTK has been updated to the newest AGS version; this should also improve Linux compatibility.

https://steamcommunity.com/games/atotk/announcements/detail/5734829501089739605