Re: [LINUX] The game wont start
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 9:07 am
Nvidia 349.12 beta also is not working
Official Legend of Grimrock Forums
http://www.grimrock.net/forum/
Well .. you are not entirely right in terms of feedback.FutureSuture wrote:I bought this game at full price (11.99£ at the time) to show my appreciation of and support for Almost Human doing a Linux port of Legend of Grimrock. This problem was first reported on Steam on the 14th of February, 2015. Today is the 1st of July, 2015. 4 months and 18 days/19 weeks and 5 days/138 days later and absolutely no progress whatsoever. There has been no feedback from Almost Human on Legend of Grimrock's forum on Steam at all. These are all facts. Another fact is that I am severely disappointed. My first playthrough was rudely interrupted by this bug. I had never before played a game like Legend of Grimrock, but I thoroughly enjoyed what I managed to play before the game broke. I am considering asking for a refund since a game being broken for so long with no fix in sight is just too much of a joke on a decent customer. Having to register to get in touch with Almost Human here despite there being a link to the equivalent thread on Steam is irritating and poor customer service to boot.
This very reason is that the Linux porter who now can't or won't support his own work anymore is also a pretty heavy hit regarding any possible LoG 2 Linux port as i stated here one week later.Just got a heads up from Petri in this:
AH has tried hard to get the Linux porter to check into this problem but unfortunately the guy seems either no longer available or able to help. So for the moment there is no solution at hand :-/
Almost Human has only officially responded to this issue once and that was in this very thread. Although I appreciate the company passing on information through you, why on Earth can it not do so itself in public? In addition, a warning needs to be put up wherever Almost Human sells Legend of Grimrock; one that states that the game does not work on Nvidia's GeForce 900 series cards on Linux and therefore Steam Machines since the vast majority will be running such cards or newer. Surely after 4 months and 19 days/19 weeks and 6 days/139 days, if getting a hold of the Linux porter wasn't successful, other solutions could have been brought into place. That is, if the Almost Human cared, which many are speculating it does not. The company could learn to fix it itself rather than spend the aforementioned amount of time trying to get a hold of somebody who is busy, after all. At the end of the day, the onus lies on Almost Human to rectify the situation because, ultimately, it's up to the rights holder to be finding ways to deal with stuff if their contractors aren't getting things done.Dr.Disaster wrote:Well .. you are not entirely right in terms of feedback.FutureSuture wrote:I bought this game at full price (11.99£ at the time) to show my appreciation of and support for Almost Human doing a Linux port of Legend of Grimrock. This problem was first reported on Steam on the 14th of February, 2015. Today is the 1st of July, 2015. 4 months and 18 days/19 weeks and 5 days/138 days later and absolutely no progress whatsoever. There has been no feedback from Almost Human on Legend of Grimrock's forum on Steam at all. These are all facts. Another fact is that I am severely disappointed. My first playthrough was rudely interrupted by this bug. I had never before played a game like Legend of Grimrock, but I thoroughly enjoyed what I managed to play before the game broke. I am considering asking for a refund since a game being broken for so long with no fix in sight is just too much of a joke on a decent customer. Having to register to get in touch with Almost Human here despite there being a link to the equivalent thread on Steam is irritating and poor customer service to boot.
It's true that AH did not hand out feedback themselfs regarding this specific problem. Yet if you took a deeper look into the Steam threat you also posted in you might have seen this post made by me about a month ago:
This very reason is that the Linux porter who now can't or won't support his own work anymore is also a pretty heavy hit regarding any possible LoG 2 Linux port as i stated here one week later.Just got a heads up from Petri in this:
AH has tried hard to get the Linux porter to check into this problem but unfortunately the guy seems either no longer available or able to help. So for the moment there is no solution at hand :-/
I'm absolutely certain if AH had the LoG 1 Linux source code and could find a trustworthy linux guy to add the needed changes they would. Yet the problem is finding such a person or - worst case - said source code.
Hi Petri,petri wrote:Apologies for the long delay!
We have just pushed a new Linux beta to Steam that should fix this issue. If you are on Steam, could you please test it by opting into the "linux_beta" branch (in Library -> Legend of Grimrock -> Properties -> Betas)?
If you're not a Steam user, here's a link to the patched executable (back up your previous executable!):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/dk1uxl2zv2ser ... n.x86?dl=0
I hope this finally solves this long standing issue.