game crashes after intro

**Urkle** · 05-02-2008, 10:28 PM

jimmytwinkle Wrote:The graphical glitches seem to be fixed in fglrx 8.4 but the game still crashes when starting or loading a game with shadows enabled. It's very playable now though.

Are you using the latest patch for linux?

**jimmytwinkle** · 05-03-2008, 03:05 AM

Urkle Wrote:
jimmytwinkle Wrote:The graphical glitches seem to be fixed in fglrx 8.4 but the game still crashes when starting or loading a game with shadows enabled. It's very playable now though.

Are you using the latest patch for linux?

Whichever patch the black plague demo is. The filename of the installer is 'PenumbraBlackPlagueDemo-2567.sh'
Edit: I mean the installer filename is 'PenumbraOvertureDemo-2553.sh' but they are doing the same thing.
Edit2: I just bought the full game so I'll see if I get the same results.

**GroteBlup** · 05-06-2008, 07:50 PM

With fgrlx 8.3 I had render glitches, *UNTIL* I put pixelshaders on max/high quality.
I have an r420/X800 PRO (club 3d X850 something), a 2GHz athlon, and I am running debian/Sid.

I needed the latest versions though: overture version is 2553. The demo and the official game are very playable in highest quality settings (and easy of course, since else I just would have played doom3 ;-0 ) , and black plague (demo only) version 2567.
If I don't max the pixel shaders, I get very anoying render glitches.
The previous (overture) demo version was a good way to (bus)lock my system.

**Urkle** · 05-07-2008, 04:00 PM

If any of you can get screenshots (pressing F12 will save a bmp file to the game directory) Just convert them to png files and attach.

**GroteBlup** · 05-07-2008, 04:34 PM

Urkle Wrote:(pressing F12 will save a bmp file to the game directory)

Hmmmm,
What exactly is the game directory?
I assume somewhere in ~/.frictionalgames/.. ?
At least F12 doesn't work for me...
If I look in the settings.cfg, I see something like:
Screenshot_Type="Keyboard" Screenshot_Val="104"
Does that mean the keycode 104, which is cursor down in my case.
Although I cannot relate the flashlight code to 49...
I will look further to get the screenshots working

**jimmytwinkle** · 05-07-2008, 08:23 PM

GroteBlup Wrote:
Urkle Wrote:(pressing F12 will save a bmp file to the game directory)
Hmmmm,
What exactly is the game directory?
I assume somewhere in ~/.frictionalgames/.. ?
At least F12 doesn't work for me...
If I look in the settings.cfg, I see something like:
Screenshot_Type="Keyboard" Screenshot_Val="104"
Does that mean the keycode 104, which is cursor down in my case.
Although I cannot relate the flashlight code to 49...
I will look further to get the screenshots working

On my computer the screenshot key was F8 not F12 which I found out after a little bit of experimentation. I attached a couple of screenshots to demonstrate the kind of glitches.

**Urkle** · 05-08-2008, 02:46 AM

Which ATI card do you have? And do you have the latest drivers?

**jimmytwinkle** · 05-08-2008, 09:26 PM

Urkle Wrote:Which ATI card do you have? And do you have the latest drivers?

I have a Radeon HD2400Pro with the latest fglrx (8.4)

**jimmytwinkle** · 05-23-2008, 05:22 PM

The crash with shadows enabled seems to have resolved itself with this months fglrx driver (8.5). Thanks for all your help.