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mint problem?
Updated steam and Barony this evening and tried again, looks like it gets closer to launch:
[23-31-26] successfully loaded language file 'lang/en.txt'
[23-31-26] Loading config 'default.cfg'...
[23-31-26] warning: config file 'default.cfg' does not exist!
[23-31-26] Server flags updated.
[23-31-26] Bound IN_FORWARD: 26
[23-31-26] Bound IN_LEFT: 4
[23-31-26] Bound IN_BACK: 22
[23-31-26] Bound IN_RIGHT: 7
[23-31-26] Bound IN_TURNL: 20
[23-31-26] Bound IN_TURNR: 8
[23-31-26] Bound IN_UP: 6
[23-31-26] Bound IN_DOWN: 29
[23-31-26] Bound IN_CHAT: 40
[23-31-26] Bound IN_COMMAND: 56
[23-31-26] Bound IN_STATUS: 43
[23-31-26] Bound IN_SPELL_LIST: 16
[23-31-26] Bound IN_CAST_SPELL: 9
[23-31-26] Bound IN_DEFEND: 44
[23-31-26] error: failed to initialize Steamworks!
[23-31-26] make sure your steam client is running before attempting to start again.
[23-31-26] Critical error: 1
[23-31-27] closing engine...
[23-31-27] removing engine timer...
[23-31-27] freeing engine resources...
[23-31-27] freeing map data...
[23-31-27] freeing textures...
[23-31-27] freeing sprites...
[23-31-27] freeing models...
[23-31-27] freeing sounds...
[23-31-27] closing network interfaces...
[23-31-27] shutting down SDL and its subsystems...
[23-31-27] success
check for libsteam_api.so in Barony folder
Have you tried replacing libsteam_api.so or any of the other lib files with your own copies? The ones I've provided are known to work just fine on Ubuntu but they may not work so nicely on other systems. Somebody tried playing Barony on Debian once, and they consistently had issues with the game freezing on the name entry screen, which I wasn't able to reproduce on any other system. Eventually he was able to track the problem down to a library incompatibility or something, but that just emphasizes how important your choice of OS is. Even Steam itself only officially supports Ubuntu for this reason. The minute differences that exist between every single flavor of Linux just make it a tech support nightmare to make sure everybody gets the same experience when they try to download a game and run it.
So the bottom line is, we don't officially support Linux Mint or any other distro other than Ubuntu, but I recommend if you want to play the game on your system that you first check for library incompatibilities, because that is more often than not the culprit in cases like this.
I use Opensuse 13.2 and Barony works fine. I'm enough of 50 hours with no glitches. The difference in the distributions is greatly exaggerated. Continue to maintain enough of ubuntu.
The point is not that every distro is wildly different from the others, but just that they're different enough that it tends to cause problems with major releases that support more than one distro (which is true). If you're able to identify the tweaks that you need to make to get Barony running on a non-Ubuntu Linux distro, or if the game works just fine without any tweaks at all, I'm happy about that, but we *still* cannot commit to supporting your experience, just like Valve (a company hundreds of times larger than us) cannot commit to supporting anything distro other than Ubuntu.
This is unfortunately the state about Linux across the board and it is why both users and developers have historically avoided Linux when developing any human-facing products. I like that this trend has started changing for Linux, but it is important to realize that it is changing because some big players in the industry are starting to make big decisions about which particular distros they want to support, and not because the whole multi-distro paradigm has always been conducive to a very wide release.
Anyway, that's a major tangent and I don't want to continue derailing this thread. I do hope we can find and fix Y'honny's problem because it is more than likely a pretty simple fix. We just have to find it first.
log from console?
Mint is quite similar to Ubuntu as far as Steam and its dependencies are concerned but those dependencies are where small divergences hide. I can definitely understand Sheridan's approach in attempting to support one distro, since the supported package versions will all be known in advance.
Happy to report that the issue is resolved! Turns out this was related to both the Steam client packaged with Mint 17.1 as well as the .deb file the Steam site offers for download. Once I manually upgraded from within the client (Steam -> Check for Steam Client upgrades), I am able to launch the game. Why this upgrade was withheld when launching Steam each other time is unclear to me.
you amd video card?
problem with videodriver
@Cuke: By the looks of it it seems you are missing some critical libraries necessary for the game to even attempt creating a GL context. What kind of video card do you have? If you have not installed any video driver for it then it makes sense that you would be getting errors like these.
you need to install the driver for Radeon. I do not use Ubuntu and ATI. Look for information on sites for Ubuntu. example here https://help.ubuntu.com/
I already tried. They're the latest Intel drivers.
EDIT:
I'm wondering if it's an issue with OpenGL? Not sure, I think I saw some patch notes referencing a software renderer. Anyways, here's some additional info on my laptop.