[1.2pre]KSP will not start, Linux, AMD

[Requia]

Game simply crashes on start. Log here, no -force-glcore doesn't do anything. It never has and never will, because it doesn't actually do anything if there's no dirextX mode. -force-glcore32 doesn't help either, which is new. This is prerelease 1532.

Edited September 26, 2016 by Requia

[Waxing_Kibbous]

This is a known issue, seems like it doesn't like windowed mode on Linux. I opened my settings file in a text editor and changed Fullscreen to True, which works well for me. For every new version I copy the settings file into the new folder before starting the first time. But yeah, check the tracker for this, it's definitely on there.

[Requia]

No change from setting it to fullscreen, not even the expected momentary fullscreen before crashing.

[micha]

Works fine for me (Windowed or full-screen). 1.2.0.1532; Debian GNU/Linux "Jessie", running Kernel 4.6.0 and NVidia proprietary drivers 352.79 with KDE. CPU is AMD Phenom II X4 965.

[Jovus]

Try updating Mono and running it again. I suspect your Mono install is out of date.

[Waxing_Kibbous]

2 hours ago, Jovus said:

Try updating Mono and running it again. I suspect your Mono install is out of date.

Doesn't KSP use it's own bundled Mono? I've never had to mess with system libs when running it, I presume it is built statically.

[steve_v]

38 minutes ago, Waxing_Kibbous said:

Doesn't KSP use it's own bundled Mono?

Yes it does, Unity forked mono ages ago and a copy of the same is included in the archive, i.e. KSP_linux/KSP_Data/Mono/x86_64/libmono.so. Unitys mono isn't compatible with upstream / distro packages any more either.

On the crashing, the OP is pretty thin on system details etc... what GPU driver are you using?
Perhaps this bug is still alive:

On 19/04/2013 at 9:29 AM, sal_vager said:

"KSP doesn't start!" (New for 1.1)

Current proprietary AMD drivers are breaking with the Unity multi-threaded rendering, force single threaded rendering with the following in a terminal:

KSP.x86_64 -force-gfx-direct

 

Edited September 27, 2016 by steve_v

[Kerbal101]

Please post output of:

lsmod | grep -E "radeon|amdgpu|fglrx"

and

lspci -nnk | grep -i vga -A3 | grep 'driver'

and

glxinfo | grep -i opengl

to understand what AMD driver are you actually running.

[Requia]

20 hours ago, steve_v said:

Yes it does, Unity forked mono ages ago and a copy of the same is included in the archive, i.e. KSP_linux/KSP_Data/Mono/x86_64/libmono.so. Unitys mono isn't compatible with upstream / distro packages any more either.

On the crashing, the OP is pretty thin on system details etc... what GPU driver are you using?

 

[/quote]

Uh, the radeon driver has never worked with KSP, so fglrx is kindof inferred.

Also this forum software is an absolute mess.

20 hours ago, steve_v said:

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Perhaps this bug is still alive:

{/quote] That seems to do it. Or at least I'm back to the weird broken resolutions everybody else is having.

 

Edited September 27, 2016 by Requia

[steve_v]

Why yes, the forum software is horrible. I'd quote you, but quoting anthing on mobile leads to the kind of ridiculous mess we have seen here...