Game freezes GUI (linux)

[Freaker]

The intros play back fine but when it's supposed to show the menu a small part of the menu slides in and afterwards the gui freezes completely (music is still present). Cannot even switch to the terminal consoles. Only rebooting through ssh solves the problem.

AMD 5850 with driver 12.8 on a dual screen setup with KDE.

[eriktorbjorn]

Originally posted by Mountain Man:

So has this game never worked in Linux?

I don't know about the Steam version, but the one I got through a Humble Bundle used to work for me, but that was a long time ago. Possibly even on a different computer than the one I have now, I don't remember. Now it seems to have the same problem though, and I have no suggestions for how to fix it.

[PaNika]

Originally posted by Almighty Pudding:

I assume guys it's working fine now as I see you are confirming the game working correctly here. Are there any issues with Intel cards in Anomaly Warzone Earth? Let us know, the last update is supposed to fix those and any feedback is welcome.

Linux wings 4.4.0-22-generic #40-Ubuntu SMP Thu May 12 22:03:46 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Ubuntu 16.04 64bit
OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Haswell Mobile
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 11.2.0

The game does not work

[D.C. Wulf]

Originally posted by Almighty Pudding:

I assume guys it's working fine now as I see you are confirming the game working correctly here. Are there any issues with Intel cards in Anomaly Warzone Earth? Let us know, the last update is supposed to fix those and any feedback is welcome.

Currently not working with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Black screen showing the "loading" animation, but nothing happens.

[de.nagical[linux]]

This seems to be the same problem as with This War of Mine. I did a small wrapper for TWoM and it seems to work for AWE as well: TWoM bug

EDIT: Just saw that it's even the same developer... d'oh

[Tetrobot]

Originally posted by de.nagicallinux:

This seems to be the same problem as with This War of Mine. I did a small wrapper for TWoM and it seems to work for AWE as well: TWoM bug

You're my hero. And TIL about LD_PRELOAD.

ADDENDUM: For everyone who doesn't want to launch AWS from the console every time, compile the .so as described above, put it in the AWS folder (should be ~/.steam/steam/SteamApps/common/Anomaly Warzone Earth) and then set the game's launch options to:

env LD_PRELOAD=./test.so %command%

[Tetrobot]

The only remaining problem is that the game crashes on shutdown, which could probably also be patched, but for now

ps -A | grep AnomalyW | awk '{ print $1 }' | xargs kill 

is good enough for me.

[de.nagical[linux]]

Originally posted by Tetrobot:

The only remaining problem is that the game crashes on shutdown, which could probably also be patched, but for now

ps -A | grep AnomalyW | awk '{ print $1 }' | xargs kill 

is good enough for me.

Well yeah, This War of Mine had that issue as well, though it got fixed when they pushed the patch

[Tetrobot]

Originally posted by de.nagicallinux:

Well yeah, This War of Mine had that issue as well, though it got fixed when they pushed the patch

Has anyone analyzed the patch? I suspect another LD_PRELOAD hack might help fix that issue as well.