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[Leo]

Yeah, yeah, it's crazy to game on Linux and I should just dual boot into Windows, etc, etc. 

 

All of my games, including Sins: Rebellion, run perfectly. I am, however, having some issues with SotP.

 

When I run Sins with SotP enabled, even when I enable LAA on the Sins EXE, SotP pops up a dialog telling me to relaunch with LAA enabled. It also emits a crashdump. 

 

Does anyone know what other dependencies SotP has? Since Sins runs fine by itself, I'm almost certain that this crash is due to a SotP dependency.

 

Thanks!

[Leo]

I figured out how to run the mod on Linux. Here are all the steps (it's really easy): https://gist.github....f081a5c25060a2e

[mmeier]

It also runs quite fine with wine. Sadly, for me it's an absolute no-go. While the closed source nvidia drivers deliver acceptable performance, they completely screw up fonts everywhere, not only in Sins but also in all other applications. And the open source nouveau drivers work quite fine for everything - but their 3D performance is abysmal.

 

But with SteamOS and completely new graphics APIs apart from Direct 3D I've still got hope that one day I might be able to get rid of my Windows installation and game on Linux.

 

Greetings,

Michael

[Leo]

It also runs quite fine with wine. Sadly, for me it's an absolute no-go. While the closed source nvidia drivers deliver acceptable performance, they completely screw up fonts everywhere, not only in Sins but also in all other applications. And the open source nouveau drivers work quite fine for everything - but their 3D performance is abysmal.

 

But with SteamOS and completely new graphics APIs apart from Direct 3D I've still got hope that one day I might be able to get rid of my Windows installation and game on Linux.

 

Greetings,

Michael

 The only problem I'm having with fonts, using the proprietary Nvidia drivers, are due to a UI regression in the DVD version of the game - are you running the Steam version, or the DVD version?

[mmeier]

No, I really mean all the fonts - Desktop/Browser/terminal/... They all look like there is either a problem with hinting or with font AA. It's one of those cases where you know there is something wrong because you get headaches after half an hour in front of the screen.

[Leo]

No, I really mean all the fonts - Desktop/Browser/terminal/... They all look like there is either a problem with hinting or with font AA. It's one of those cases where you know there is something wrong because you get headaches after half an hour in front of the screen.

That sounds awful. What card do you have, and what version of the driver? I'm running 340.93 on a GTX 680 at a 10% overclock, works great.

[mmeier]

That sounds awful. What card do you have, and what version of the driver? I'm running 340.93 on a GTX 680 at a 10% overclock, works great.

It is. I would really love to play all those great games available on Steam for Linux without having to reboot, like Pillars of Eternity or Civilization 5.

 

I've got a Geforce GT 540M (mobile) card. It's from around 2011. Luckily, I was never that much into top end graphics. ;-) I've last tried the the proprietary drivers about 3 months ago. I mostly test them once every three to four months, just to see if my issue might have gone away. The problem with not knowing what exactly is wrong, googling for the problem is difficult. And in general, the nouveau driver is great, 2D acceleration as well as HD videos and all manner of other things work great - just gaming doesn't. Not for wine games, and not for native Linux games either, sadly. Either the performance is abysmal, or I get actual graphics errors.

 

Well, I'm hoping for SteamOS and the Steam Machines encouraging hardware manufacturers to take Linux a bit more seriously.

[Leo]

It is. I would really love to play all those great games available on Steam for Linux without having to reboot, like Pillars of Eternity or Civilization 5.

 

I've got a Geforce GT 540M (mobile) card. It's from around 2011. Luckily, I was never that much into top end graphics. ;-) I've last tried the the proprietary drivers about 3 months ago. I mostly test them once every three to four months, just to see if my issue might have gone away. The problem with not knowing what exactly is wrong, googling for the problem is difficult. And in general, the nouveau driver is great, 2D acceleration as well as HD videos and all manner of other things work great - just gaming doesn't. Not for wine games, and not for native Linux games either, sadly. Either the performance is abysmal, or I get actual graphics errors.

 

Well, I'm hoping for SteamOS and the Steam Machines encouraging hardware manufacturers to take Linux a bit more seriously.

Well, this isn't about exactly your situation, but it may help:

 

From http://askubuntu.com...missing-letters

I had the same problem on my Dell Inspiron with 5th generation i5 running Ubuntu 14.04. Luckily I found a very easy solution for this. Installed ubuntu tweak (following works):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tualatrix/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak

Then, went to Fonts, changed Antialiasing option from Subpixels Antialiasing (LCD screens only) to Standard Grayscale Aliasing and everything seems to work fine. Infact, the problem immediately appears/disappears on changing the setting, so seems this is indeed the cause.