Viewing topic [SOLVED] Terraria won't run on my Lenovo G50-45!

Title: [SOLVED] Terraria won't run on my Lenovo G50-45!

Cyba.Cowboy 27 Dec 2015

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So my son got a new laptop for christmas, a Lenovo G50-45, and whilst it's primarily for school, we plan to let him do a little gaming in his downtime...

Pretty much the only game he wants to play is Terraria (which he has on pretty much everything else - "But the computer version is better!" ), but it won't run. At all.

Once the game was installed via Steam for Linux-based operating systems, he tries to run it (just like any other game), Steam says it's loading... Then nothing.

Any ideas?

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StianTheDark 27 Dec 2015

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If you run Steam through a terminal, when launching the game you will be able to see a log (potential errors) in the terminal.

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Cyba.Cowboy 27 Dec 2015

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Quoting: StianTheDarkIf you run Steam through a terminal, when launching the game you will be able to see a log (potential errors) in the terminal.

All I need to type to do that is the actual package name, right?

Any idea what the package name for Steam is? Is it just "steam", or is it something else?

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silverphil 27 Dec 2015

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just run "steam" in a terminal, then run terraria and see the results... Also have you installed the proper drivers for that laptop? DONT install any drivers, if you bought it with linux preinstalled, though!

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wolfyrion 27 Dec 2015

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1. Validate the files, some times files are getting corrupted
2. just browse the game folder and run in terminal --> Terraria

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Liam Dawe 28 Dec 2015

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What GPU is in the laptop? And what Distribution are you on?

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Cyba.Cowboy 28 Dec 2015

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Quoting: wolfyrion1. Validate the files, some times files are getting corrupted
2. just browse the game folder and run in terminal --> Terraria

It looks like some sort of corruption may have been the issue, because I removed Terraria completely, restarted Steam and the computer, then re-installed Terraria, which appears to have fixed the issue...

Thanks for your help, guys.

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