Pete Zaitcev ([info]zaitcev) wrote,
@ 2008-05-21 17:06:00
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Entry tags:linux, opengl, rspod, x11

RSPoD on Rawhide

The Penny-Arcade game a.k.a. RSPoD is out today and it bombs on me with: "Could not find a compatible display device // Make sure your display device supports OpenGL 1.2 and the following extensions: ARB_multitexture ... ARB_texture_compression EXT_texture_compression_s3tc". On my system, OpenGL is provided by MESA 7.1-0.29.fc9, and according to glxinfo, some required extensions are missing. That wouldn't be so bad, but I have no idea what how this may be corrected. Hardware OpenGL in the video card, I guess. I have "Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP", which is a low-end mobile card.

UPDATE: Received the following e-mail:

Hi I had the same problem on Vista, because on my laptop the latest installed drivers were the ones I got from windows update. I then installed the ones that came from the manufacturers site and voilà..

. . .

UPDATE: See Anholt's entry.


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[info]airlied
2008-05-22 12:45 am UTC (link)
have a look for libdxtn on the internets..

we can't ship it due to patents.

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libtxn not enough?
[info]jaydubbee
2008-05-22 04:42 am UTC (link)
I have the s3tc library installed, and all of the extensions that the game complains about show up as available in glxinfo. I also added the option to force s3tc in my .drirc. Game still won't start.

PS I'm using Intel graphics. I have another machine with NVidia graphics and it works fine. Yay free software?

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[info]zaitcev
2008-05-22 06:12 pm UTC (link)
I see, thanks. I've been unable to find the library, but in any case it's only a proprietary game.

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[info]jgreely
2008-05-22 09:10 pm UTC (link)
...and not a very good one, IMHO. I played the flaky Mac demo for a while, and found the gameplay clumsy, the narration annoying (both the voice and the captions), and the uninterruptible cutscenes tedious.

-j

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[info]kazriko
2008-05-25 02:53 am UTC (link)
I enjoyed the demo, but found the mouse controls to be annoying. I bet it would be much better with keyboard or controllers.

Also, the sound doesn't work well on 64-bit linux. I'm looking into it.

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[info]jgreely
2008-05-25 05:15 am UTC (link)
The control scheme was definitely designed for the Xbox 360 version, and for some reason they thought that a one-button mouse would be good enough for computers. If anyone else had done it, PA would mock them in the comic.

-j

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[info]rmgraham
2008-05-22 02:56 pm UTC (link)
And once you fix the graphics, you'll probably find it has a problem with your sound card...

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[info]kazriko
2008-05-22 07:31 pm UTC (link)
Hmm, Mesa means that you're using Software rendering of 3d graphics.

You'll probably need to load the radeon restricted/closed source drivers to play it.

Thanks for the reminder, I'll download that when I get home. (I have a 8600 running in hardware mode, I'm sure it'll be fine.)

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I think this might be the real reason
[info]dbn3
2008-05-23 03:15 am UTC (link)
See anholt's post:

http://anholt.livejournal.com/38228.html

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