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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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sub May 29, 2015
Quoting: HamishWhile 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. ;)

Wow, I wasn't aware that the German word schadenfreude is also common in the US. :)
Xzyl May 29, 2015
Quoting: sub
Quoting: HamishWhile 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. ;)

Wow, I wasn't aware that the German word schadenfreude is also common in the US. :)

I thought Hamish was Canadian? As for as the German saying, outside of the Pennsylvania-Dutch communities and their surroundings I don't hear words like this. Granted, Hamish is an intellectual and some of his circles may indeed use such terminology but here in N.Y. I'm stuck trying to teach people it's just "regardless" and other simple things... Yeah not really what I would call common.

On topic... Nvidia users have had it pretty good with the games that have came out lately. Sadly, Nvidia isn't a company anyone who likes linux (or what it stands for) should be supporting, however to each their own. I haven't used nvidia since my last fermi caught fire, is there an official channel for bugs on nvidias website?
Hamish May 30, 2015
Quoting: Xzyl
Quoting: sub
Quoting: HamishWhile 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. ;)

Wow, I wasn't aware that the German word schadenfreude is also common in the US. :)

I thought Hamish was Canadian? As for as the German saying, outside of the Pennsylvania-Dutch communities and their surroundings I don't hear words like this. Granted, Hamish is an intellectual and some of his circles may indeed use such terminology but here in N.Y. I'm stuck trying to teach people it's just "regardless" and other simple things... Yeah not really what I would call common.

Yeah, I am Canadian. As for using schadenfreude, like Xzyl said it is not that common, but it does come up on occasion:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude#In_popular_culture

As for myself, I picked it up from my mother. No, she is not German. Just well read.
adolson May 30, 2015
Quoting: wolfyrionI 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

Does it work if you change this line:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/lib32"

to include the path you found the lib in?

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/lib32:/usr/lib32/vdpau/"
Guest May 30, 2015
People need to log this on the nvidia site, the more people that do this the greater the bugs importance appears.
Insperatus May 31, 2015
Oh dang, just got a 970 in the mail, d'oh!
FutureSuture May 31, 2015
Quoting: Guest
QuoteIf you wish to provide feedback,
how about an "If you wish to provide help" link too?
What do you mean? I have linked to Almost Human's own forum and to the equivalent forum on Steam.
Plintslîcho May 31, 2015
While this is kind of bad news indeed I have to admit that I haven't touched this game for a long time. I agree though that the news underline the importance of open source drivers. Still, due to their inefficiency and bad power consumption compared to nVidia cards AMD GPUs (and not only their GPUs) are not an option/alternative for me. Unfortunately, the open source driver is even part of the problem as far as I understand. It was at least lacking some decent power management for quite some time.
slaapliedje May 31, 2015
Just to throw in my two cents, it seems to still be working here. I have a 980GTX, and am running nvidia driver 343.36 (Debian Jessie with drivers packaged from experimental). I'm guessing it won't work in my Arch Linux install though, since it'll be updated to the latest drivers.
themixturemedia Jun 1, 2015
Hi there guys just wanted to say I am running Ubuntu 15.04 64bit with 349.16 driver (Nvidia GTX 960) and I get this error when I run the game in terminal.

GL_VERSION: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 349.16
GL_VENDOR: NVIDIA Corporation
GL_RENDERER: GeForce GTX 960/PCIe/SSE2
GL_SHADING_LANGUAGE_VERSION: 4.50 NVIDIA
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