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OpenSUSE Leap 42.1 and Dawn of War 2 trouble
robvv Oct 20, 2016
Hi all,

For those of us using OpenSUSE with the latest KDE Plasma, running Feral games is not always straightforward! I hope the following will be of help to anyone who has had trouble starting DoW2 with an OpenSUSE system:

When I first started the game through Steam, I got as far as the 'CD key' screen and then the game crashed with no error message. All the usual tips on the forums didn't work, but after a prompt from Feral support I logged into an LXDE session and found that I could start DoW2 from the command line with a adjustments.

I needed to install libSDL2_ttf-2_0-0 and libSDL2_image-2_0-0. I then entered the '[...]/steamapps/common/Dawn of War 2' directory, executed './bin/DawnOfWar2' and the game started fine; albeit with loads of GLSL error messages.

It seems the conflict is with the current version of kwin. I would assume, but have not confirmed, that if the compositor was disabled in a Plasma 5 session that the game would also start.

Cheers,
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Rob
Avehicle7887 Oct 20, 2016
Quoting: GuestI really want to like OpenSuse, but I kept running into issues that pushed me to Ubuntu. I have Tumbleweed installed on a secondary hard drive but I'm not using it much due to lack of proprietary drivers (nVidia card here). I'm waiting for Leap 42.2 to give it another shot.

Have you tried the official package from the Nvidia website? I've used it a number of times on OpenSuSe and it worked fine.
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