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Going as far back as the 14th of February of this year, users have been reporting that Legend of Grimrock won't even start on their Linux powered gaming machines sporting GPUs from the Nvidia GeForce GTX 900 series.

Almost Human, developer of the Legend of Grimrock series, is aware of the issue and has responded.

petriWe are investigating the issue.

My guess is that this is some sort of GLSL shader compilation issue on certain nvidia driver version. Reverting the driver to older version may help.


Nevertheless, a gamer in the equivalent Steam thread who claims to have been in contact with this Almost Human employee had the following to say today.

Dr.DisasterJust 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 :-/


With Legend of Grimrock 2 being uncertain for Linux, and Legend of Grimrock no longer working for those possessing the newest GPUs from Nvidia, the situation is rather unpleasant.

If you wish to provide feedback, you can do so in Almost Human's forum thread on the matter, or the equivalent Steam thread. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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FutureSuture May 29, 2015
I have a GTX 980. I was maxing Legend of Grimrock at 3840 x 2160 and it ran at a beautiful 60 frames per second. Now it doesn't run at all. Linux gamers who have an AMD graphics card and are running the open source driver can literally run this game better than me.
adolson May 29, 2015
This highlights one of the bigger issues I have with the outsourcing of porting work. That being said, it appears that it is an issue introduced by NVIDIA - perhaps the devs should reach out to them. If NVIDIA's drivers were open, it would have been fixed months ago, no doubt. Or at least instructions on how to fix could be provided by the community to the devs.
Hamish May 29, 2015
Quoting: FutureSutureLinux gamers who have an AMD graphics card and are running the open source driver can literally run this game better than me.

While it obviously sucks for those who are suffering from this, I must admit to getting a certain amount of schadenfreude from this. Maybe even a little vindication. ;)
Xpander May 29, 2015
Quoting: Hamish
Quoting: FutureSutureLinux gamers who have an AMD graphics card and are running the open source driver can literally run this game better than me.

While it obviously sucks for those who are suffering from this, I must admit to getting a certain amount of schadenfreude from this. Maybe even a little vindication. ;)

i put a mark on my calendar.. thats the first time i hear that game works with AMD and not with Nvidia!
this day is special i guess.. lets drink!
adolson May 29, 2015
Quoting: Xpander
Quoting: Hamish
Quoting: FutureSutureLinux gamers who have an AMD graphics card and are running the open source driver can literally run this game better than me.

While it obviously sucks for those who are suffering from this, I must admit to getting a certain amount of schadenfreude from this. Maybe even a little vindication. ;)

i put a mark on my calendar.. thats the first time i hear that game works with AMD and not with Nvidia!
this day is special i guess.. lets drink!

If this keeps up, I'll make the switch, ending my 14-year NVIDIA-exclusivity!
melkemind May 29, 2015
Maybe GamingOnLinux could compile a list of trusted porters with good track records and make sure game companies are aware of reliable options. I doubt any developer wants the negative attention that comes with a port that is no longer supported.
Hamish May 29, 2015
Quoting: melkemindMaybe GamingOnLinux could compile a list of trusted porters with good track records and make sure game companies are aware of reliable options. I doubt any developer wants the negative attention that comes with a port that is no longer supported.

A porting resource for developers could be good.
Avehicle7887 May 29, 2015
Tried the latest beta driver 352.09, doesn't work either.
mulletdeath May 29, 2015
I wish I had seen that forum thread before I bought the game, as I have a GTX 980 myself. It's very frustrating. What am I going to have to do from now on to make sure that a game I want to purchase that supposedly has Linux support will actually work?
wolfyrion May 29, 2015
I Am trying to investigate the problem so here are my findings...

so when I run it from terminal I Get:

[wolf@W Legend of Grimrock]$ '/media/ROMS/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Legend of Grimrock/Grimrock.bin.x86'
szCmd: /bin/sh -c '"/home/wolf/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh" steam://run/207170'; &
[wolf@W Legend of Grimrock]$ Running Steam on manjarolinux 0.8.13-rc1 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is disabled by the user
/home/wolf/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 710: LD_LIBRARY_PATH: unbound variable

so lets go on steam.sh
# Need to add /usr/lib32 to the library path to pick up libvdpau_nvidia.so on Ubuntu 12.04
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/lib32"

on my path /usr/lib32 I dont have such a file libvdpau_nvidia.so :(
the file is located on this path /usr/lib32/vdpau/

I have tried symlinking files. changing paths etc but nothing

even if delete that line 710 it stucks on line 713
# prepend our lib path to LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$STEAMROOT/$PLATFORM:$STEAMROOT/$PLATFORM/panorama:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"

if I delete that one as well then it cannot run steam :P
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