Mac/Linux version Open(ish) Beta Test!

[Taron]

If you already own the game, you should now be able to download and play a Beta test of the Mac and/or Linux version of it from your Steam Library!

I'm sorry this has taken so long, but please understand that we are a small 2-man studio and I'm the only programmer, and we're using an in-house C++ engine (dubbed "CrazyEngine") so no magic button to export to other platforms like you'd get from Unity or the like. I've spent a lot of time over the last year working on this porting project, including creating an OpenGL renderer and SDL2-based sound, controller, and OS-interface modules.

Despite that I'm still only vaguely familiar with OSX and Linux environments (I did most of the work in Windows since it also supports OpenGL and SDL2). To be honest, I'd never used Linux before about a month ago (though now that I have I can see its appeal) and although I was primarily used Macs back "before they were cool" in the OS 7/8 era, I eventually gave in to pressure from work and games and switched to Windows around the time OS 9 came out, so OSX is still a strange new beast to me.

My point is, all I can guarantee for now is that it Works On My Machine and cross my fingers that it works for all of you as well! Be gentle!

System Requirements

OSX

OS 10.6 or higher
Intel-based architecture w/ 32 bit app support
OpenGL 1.3 compatible video card/drivers
?????

Linux
32-bit C/C++ runtime libraries
SDL2 runtime libraries
(the above should already be included if you have native Steam Runtime support!)
OpenGL 1.3 compatible video card/drivers
?????

Beyond that I don't know for sure, especially on the Linux side with all its many variations. I built the game with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS so it obviously works on that.

I assume the hardware requirements will be the same as for Windows... but you all tell me, do games generally require more or less powerful hardware on OSX and Linux compared to Windows versions? If you have a low-end machine and the game runs poorly on it, let me know so I can reflect that in the Minimum System Requirements on the store page for the official release.


Anyway post any comments or issues you have in this thread for now. Thanks and have fun testing out the game!

[steev]

Seems to be a great port so far, thanks! 360 controller works perfectly.

Runs smoothly on my laptop:

Core i3 2350m
Intel HD 3000
4 GB RAM
Kubuntu 14.10

I have a much lower specced netbook I'll test, too.

edit: runs great on the netbook, too

Intel Atom N270 @1.6GHz
Intel 945GME
1 GB RAM
Lubuntu 14.04 LTS

[Taron]

Excellent!

[Scarlett Johanson]

I'm on Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit and its working great for me so far!

Processor Information:
Vendor: GenuineIntel
CPU Family: 0x6
CPU Model: 0xf
CPU Stepping: 0xb
CPU Type: 0x0
Speed: 2400 Mhz
4 logical processors
4 physical processors
HyperThreading: Unsupported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Unsupported
SSE41: Unsupported
SSE42: Unsupported

Network Information:
Network Speed:

Operating System Version:
Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 3.13.0-24-generic
X Server Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server Release: 11501000
X Window Manager: GNOME Shell
Steam Runtime Version: steam-runtime-release_2014-08-20

Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 650 Ti/PCIe/SSE2

Driver Version: 4.4.0 NVIDIA 343.22
OpenGL Version: 4.4
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 59 Hz
VendorID: 0x10de
DeviceID: 0x11c6
Number of Monitors: 2
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
Primary Display Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Desktop Resolution: 3360 x 1080
Primary Display Size: 20.51" x 11.54" (23.50" diag)
52.1cm x 29.3cm (59.7cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primary VRAM: 1024 MB
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x 16x

Sound card:
Audio device: Realtek ALC1200

Memory:
RAM: 7984 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
LANG: en_US.UTF-8
Microphone: Not set
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 1831804 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 855869 Mb

[James]

Plays flawlessly so far on my setup running Fedora 20 64-bit with GNOME.

Processor Information:
Vendor: AuthenticAMD
CPU Family: 0x15
CPU Model: 0x2
CPU Stepping: 0x0
CPU Type: 0x0
Speed: 4000 Mhz
8 logical processors
8 physical processors
HyperThreading: Unsupported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Supported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported

Network Information:
Network Speed:

Operating System Version:
"Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug)" (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 3.16.6-200.fc20.x86_64
X Server Vendor: Fedora Project
X Server Release: 11404000
X Window Manager: GNOME Shell
Steam Runtime Version: steam-runtime-release_2014-08-20

Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 770/PCIe/SSE2

Driver Version: 4.4.0 NVIDIA 343.22
OpenGL Version: 4.4
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
VendorID: 0x10de
DeviceID: 0x1184
Number of Monitors: 2
Number of Logical Video Cards: 1
Primary Display Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Desktop Resolution: 3840 x 1080
Primary Display Size: 18.90" x 10.63" (21.65" diag)
48.0cm x 27.0cm (55.0cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primary VRAM: 2048 MB
Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x 16x

Sound card:
Audio device: USB Mixer

Memory:
RAM: 16025 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
LANG: en_US.UTF-8
Microphone: Not set
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 187112 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 12285 Mb

Installed software:

Recent Failure Reports:

[uncbasketball500]

It works just fine on OS X 10.9.5, Processor 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5. Memory 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

[Taron]

These responses are doing wonders for my stress level right now... ;).

[Marx]

I've had no issues (besides me being clumsy with the keyboard controls) on Debian Testing.

For those fellow GNU/Linux users, run the following command in a shell to show off what hardware / driver combinations work (or don't).

uname -a && lscpu | grep -e Architecture: -e ^CPU\(s\): -e Vendor && sudo lspci -k | grep VGA -A 3 && lspci | grep Audio && cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemTotal

My Output:

Linux Mark-PC 3.16-3.dmz.1-liquorix-amd64 #1 ZEN SMP PREEMPT Thu Sep 18 03:09:26 UTC 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Architecture:          x86_64
CPU(s):                4
Vendor ID:             AuthenticAMD
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Juniper XT [Radeon HD 5770]
	Subsystem: Hightech Information System Ltd. Device 2288
	Kernel driver in use: radeon
01:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Juniper HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5700 Series]
00:14.2 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
01:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Juniper HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5700 Series]
MemTotal:        5081912 kB

Thank you very much for your efforts to support Linux/OS X gaming!

[Vemund]

I've only had two issues yet, and neither are game braking. Very playable on linux!

The first is that far view has a low framerate on linux, which was not a problem on the same computer with windows rather than Ubuntu. (I have only tried this on Ubuntu 14.10, and not on Ubuntu 14.04)

The other is whenever I lose the "Mjollnir's Blessing" my character turns blue until i take another hit.

My computers hardware:

PC model: Asus S200E
OS: Ubuntu 14.10

I also ran the command Marx suggested and this is the output: Hope it helps ;)

Linux C7-VR-Laptop 3.16.0-23-generic #31-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 21 17:56:17 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Architecture: x86_64
CPU(s): 2
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 108d
Kernel driver in use: i915
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
MemTotal: 3931248 kB

And thank you for including Linux support! :D

EDIT: The lagg with far view is only a problem when the game runs in windowed mode and far less noticeable when playing fullscreen mode.

[steev]

Originally posted by -C7-VR-:

EDIT: The lagg with far view is only a problem when the game runs in windowed mode and far less noticeable when playing fullscreen mode.

Sounds like it could be compiz. I'd try playing on a different WM/DE.

[Vemund]

Originally posted by steev:

Originally posted by -C7-VR-:

EDIT: The lagg with far view is only a problem when the game runs in windowed mode and far less noticeable when playing fullscreen mode.

Sounds like it could be compiz. I'd try playing on a different WM/DE.

Im not quite certain i understood what you meant. But I tried changing from Bilinear X2 to point and then to Bilinear. Using point completely chrashed Ubuntu for me once. But changing to Bilinear seems to have solved the problem for me. And just because I am qurious... Is that what you meant?

[cbrunos455]

Working perfectly on my opensuse 13.1 64bits machine with a Nvidia 430 card.

[Taron]

Okay I just uploaded a quick patch with the following changes:

• Fixed Volgarr becoming blue-tinted after using Mjolnir's power.
  
• Fixed Graphics menu displaying incorrect possible resolution choices for full screen mode.
  
• Added Full Screen Window option in the Graphics menu (also known as SDL_WINDOW_FULLSCREEN_DESKTOP mode to those in the know).

Ya'll have a good weekend!

[videogames]

Working perfectly for me (OS X 10.10 - i5-760, HD 5750).

Thank you so much!

[flesk]

Hey, Linux guys. I quoted some of you for an article about the beta on GamingOnLinux.com*. Please let me know if you're uncomfortable with that and I'll get an editor to remove your quote.

Thanks for putting so much work into a Linux port, Taron! :D I'll definitely buy a copy within the next few days when I have some more time to spare.

* http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/volgarr-the-viking-in-open-beta-for-linux.4504

[The Duke]

The game seems to also work perfectly for me on Mac OS X (10.9, intel i7 and intel hd 4000)

Thanks so much for getting this up and running :)