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ChemBro

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[Linux] Menu music plays, but black screen
« on: August 17, 2013, 07:30:07 PM »
Hello. I can't play the game. All I see is a window with a black screen and the menu music is playing.

I'm on Arch Linux 64bit, AMD Radeon HD 6670, Catalyst 13.8b. I attached the error.txt from the beta version from your website. The Steam version also has a black screen.

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Re: [Linux] Menu music plays, but black screen
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2013, 01:51:07 PM »
Hum..  so your graphics card driver fails to compile any shader and it won't give any error message. You can try downloading this config file:
http://www.hammerwatch.com/config.xml
Change
<ShaderSupport>true</ShaderSupport>
to
<ShaderSupport>false</ShaderSupport>

And put it in the hammerwatch folder.

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Re: [Linux] Menu music plays, but black screen
« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2013, 11:31:52 PM »
I did that with the ShaderSupport (false), but the error messages are the same... see attachment.

Also this is what I get from the console/terminal:

$ mono Hammerwatch.exe
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile (several times)
libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
Could not get XIM
KDE colorscheme read failure, using built-in colorscheme

I use KDE 4.10.5.

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Re: [Linux] Menu music plays, but black screen
« Reply #3 on: September 14, 2013, 06:31:36 PM »
With the new update from Friday the 13th, instead of having a black screen with music playing, the game just doesn't start. See error(1).txt.

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Re: [Linux] Menu music plays, but black screen
« Reply #4 on: September 17, 2013, 10:30:35 PM »
I'm using an Ubuntu and an Arch on the same Machine. Hammerwatch runs perfect under Ubuntu, but on Arch I just see a black screen, also with an error.log telling the shaders aren't working. On Arch I installed mono.

Maybe a depency to a graphics library is missing?

I could just run Ubuntu, but Arch is my main system, so I'm looking forward for a solution. Any Ideas?

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Re: [Linux] Menu music plays, but black screen
« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2013, 12:09:59 AM »
Maybe you use the open-source radeon driver on Ubuntu and Catalyst on Arch Linux? Because it works fine with the open-source driver, but not with Catalyst. Or maybe it is a specific version of Catalyst, that has problems with Hammerwatch.

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Re: [Linux] Menu music plays, but black screen
« Reply #6 on: September 18, 2013, 10:07:56 AM »
This means, you got your HammerWatch to run on your Arch with the open-source drivers? I will look for this on Ubuntu.

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Re: [Linux] Menu music plays, but black screen
« Reply #7 on: September 18, 2013, 10:37:12 PM »
Yes, with the open-source-drivers, I can play it, not with Catalyst.