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:

[janfebmarch]

"nothing happened at all."

Unsure if its the exact same thing but...

Clicked play, had a dialog box come up about some package, clicked OK (or whatever it was) and nothing...

Clicked play again which said it was already running...

Eventually, went to start system monitor to end the process, and just as I started searching for it in Unity lens (Ubuntu) the game demo started.

Whatever is happening, it doesn't appear to be working smoothly but is working.

Though, if there is another or different issue with Opensus I don't know.

[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.