Planetary Annihilation won't run

steamopen reviewed3rd party game

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#2789 · opened 2013-08-20 by WhyNotHugo · updated 2014-02-11 · 7 comments · github

WWhyNotHugo 2013-08-20 github

I've installed Planetary Annihilation through steam, and when I click play ABSOLUTELY NOTHING happens.

I'm not aware of any additional information that might help.. here goes the usual:

System Information

Processor Information:
    Vendor:  AuthenticAMD
    CPU Family:  0x15
    CPU Model:  0x1
    CPU Stepping:  0x2
    CPU Type:  0x0
    Speed:  3600 Mhz
    8 logical processors
    8 physical processors
    HyperThreading:  Unsupported
    FCMOV:  Supported
    SSE2:  Supported
    SSE3:  Supported
    SSSE3:  Supported
    SSE4a:  Supported
    SSE41:  Supported
    SSE42:  Supported

Network Information:
    Network Speed:  

Operating System Version:
    Linux (64 bit)
    Kernel Name:  Linux
    Kernel Version:  3.10.7-1-ARCH
    X Server Vendor:  The X.Org Foundation
    X Server Release:  11402000
    X Window Manager:  Compiz
    Steam Runtime Version:  steam-runtime-release-i386_2013-08-13

Video Card:
    Driver:  NVIDIA Corporation GeForce 8800 GT/PCIe/SSE2

    Driver Version:  3.3.0 NVIDIA 325.15
    OpenGL Version: 3.3
    Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
    Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
    VendorID:  0x10de
    DeviceID:  0x611
    Number of Monitors:  1
    Number of Logical Video Cards:  1
    Primary Display Resolution:  1920 x 1080
    Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080
    Primary Display Size: 20.47" x 12.76"  (24.09" diag)
                                            52.0cm x 32.4cm  (61.2cm diag)
    Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
    Primary VRAM: 512 MB
    Supported MSAA Modes:  2x 4x 8x 16x 

Sound card:
    Audio device: Realtek ALC892

Memory:
    RAM:  15032 Mb

Miscellaneous:
    UI Language:  English
    LANG:  en_CA.UTF-8
    Microphone:  Not set
    Total Hard Disk Space Available:  899467 Mb
    Largest Free Hard Disk Block:  6691 Mb

Installed software:

Recent Failure Reports:

LLiamDawe 2013-08-23 github

Have you posted on the official forum on PA's website, lots of useful info there.

WWhyNotHugo 2013-09-13 github

I appologize for the long time to reply, I'd been on vacation.
Yes, I posted on the game forums, and it's an issue with a game library (so not steam related).

HOWEVER, I do feel that steam should show me an error if the game exits non-zero right away (which clearly means it failed to start). Should that be a separate issue?

TTele42 2013-09-13 github

@hobarrera You may get additional information to help you troubleshoot if you run steam in a terminal, then try to start the game. This sounds like you're missing a dependency.

WWhyNotHugo 2013-09-15 github

Yes, that's what I said in my former post; it's a game issue, not steam (not so much a missing dep, but rather, the game requires a very old version of a dep).

My question now is; shouldn't steam be a bit more "friendly" a warn me that the game exited non-zero in these sort of scenarios? Or should I open a separate issue for that?

Nnorth1 2013-09-28 github

Have you managed to find a solution for this, hobarrera? I'm experiencing the same problem.

WWhyNotHugo 2013-09-29 github

Yes, PA needed an older version of libcurl. I ended up using the non-steam version, since I don't know how to install libraries into game folders via steam (I made a package for arch, actually: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pl/planetary-annihilation/PKGBUILD).

Jjohndrinkwater 2014-02-11 github

This is being tracked on their bug tool; would be worth reminding them its a relatively easy change to remove the breakage http://pa.lennardf1989.com/Tracker/index.php?do=details&task_id=1864

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