[Linux] Game crashes immediately after opening (SOLVED)

[uhohjonah]

So I got this game with the Humble Indie Bundle 7 and when I try and play it, it shows the starting screen and my cursor changes for a split second then it crashes and I'm back to my desktop. I really want to play this game so please help! Thanks in advance.

UPDATE: I found out that this isn't the only game that's doing this. Dungeon Defenders, another HIB 7 game, does the same thing. So I'm guessing it's a problem with my computer.

2ND UPDATE: I tried running the game in the terminal and this is the error message I got:

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[string "CustomMaterials.lua"]:0: GL error: glCompressedTexImage2D failed (GL_INVALID_ENUM 0x0500)
stack traceback:
	[C]: in function 'load'
	[string "CustomMaterials.lua"]: in function 'create'
	[string "Grimrock.lua"]: in function 'init'
	[string "Grimrock.lua"]: in main chunk
	[C]: in function 'require'
	init.lua: in main chunk

[Dr.Disaster]

You should check your display drivers (and cards) supported OpenGL version. LoG requires 2.1 or better.

[antti]

Check out the readme included with the Linux version. S3TC is required to run the game and you need to enable it with driconf

[uhohjonah]

Check out the readme included with the Linux version. S3TC is required to run the game and you need to enable it with driconf

Oh yeah.. I had used driconf to enable S3TC so I could play Swords & Soldiers awhile back, but my computer screwed up (long story) and must've reverted back to the previous settings. The game works fine now. Thanks for reminding me.

[Outlaw]

Sorry to open again this post, but I'm having a similar problem here.
I installed Grimrock in my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit with AMD k-125 and AMD 4250 hd.
The game works great on Windows, but here in Linux is a different story.
I already installed driconf, but there's not a single option to enable s3tc. Besides, all I could find for Ubuntu was "s2tc". Also, I don't know where to type this command "force_s3tc_enable=true" (I'm a noobie when it comes to Linux).
Any help will be greatly appreciated!

[Sol_HSA]

Heh, I hadn't heard of S2TC before, but basically it should(tm) do the trick. (This is not official advice, though)

[Outlaw]

Hi Sol, I thought it would, but no. Has anybody experienced this?

[mannerov]

You seems to run the open source radeon driver.
It doesn't include S3TC by default. However some packages can add it (like this one http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/package/xo ... ibtxc-dxtn)
After you'll need to set the right environment variable (for example set it in a terminal and launch the game via the terminal or force s3tc with driconf)

[Outlaw]

Thanks Mannerov! I'll try this and then get back to you! Wish me luck!

[Outlaw]

First of all, yes, I am running the Radeon open drivers (Gallium I think).
I followed your advice and installed the "libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0" package. I've had already the "libtxc-dxtn-s2tc-bin" and the "libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0:i386" packages.
So, thanks to libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0, the game finally worked! Nevertheless, the mouse cursor appears as abox now, but the rest of the game looks great.
Thanks a lot for your help Mannerov! Sol, you too!

Cheers!