Linux Beta Demo and Feedback (1.0.1 Final Out)

[sybesis]

Good work, runs fine on the systems I tried it on. Slight issue with the sound on the second machine, but other people seem to be having a similar problem.

What sound issue do you have on the second machine?

Good to see a new commercial game supporting linux. Hope I can buy it soon!

We are working hard on getting the store setup so we can start selling it.

On the start of the game, there are some problem with the voice but nothing except that. May be something with the screen. It does that in doom3 engine. When there are part of the screen that are rendered and don't fit with the rest.

Oh and by the way, count on me to buy the full version this in the end of may
There is a really good ambiance and everything. It's like playing system shock 2 with physics

[jvb]

I just installed the 3rd beta and upgrade in Debian (Etch, x86)

Installation:
Perfect, no problems at all.

Starting the game
Same problems as mentioned before:
Still a glibc 2.4 error.

It works too, if you change the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/lib:/lib:./lib

That doesn't seem to work for me.
Removing the libs in /lib did work.
It also tells you to look for a log file that doesn't exist.

Playing the game
Very smooth (AMD64 3500+ 2.2Ghz 512mb ram nVidia FX6600GT)
This is really the kind of game I like. Game play is weird but excellent.
I couldn't find an option to reverse the brightness in the game though.
Sound was less good (speech is understandable but blurry).
Sound card (onboard): intel8x0 nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97


I'm really glad to see a an Adventure/Horror RPG for GNU/Linux.
So... it will be available end may?

[GFree]

Ah yes, much better with the sound now.

Get the store working and I'll be there soon enough.

[foulmetal]

I've just dowloaded Penumbra demo Beta3, the installer doesn't work at all on my system. Although the installer says that the game was installed successfully, Nixstaller install almost nothing.
It creates the Penumbra directory and inside the directory there is an archive called "arch.tar" with a size of zero!

At the end of install, the Nixstaller window is :
- Progess is fully yellow
- "Status: Settings Selinux Contexts (2/2)"
- "Execute: chcon -t textrel_shlib_t lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0 || true"

And during the installation, I have never seen any files copy procedure...

In the terminal on which I have launched the Nixstaller, here it was printed :

Code: (Select All)

Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing nixstaller....................................................................
Collecting info for this system...
Operating system: linux
CPU Arch: x86
C libraries: /lib/libc.so.6
C++ libraries: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5.0.2.apkg /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.8
Nixstaller version 0.2, Copyright (C) 2006 of Rick Helmus
Nixstaller comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
Nixstaller is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the about section for details.
sh: chcon: command not found

So what the matter?

[pete]

What sound issue do you have on the second machine?

The best way to describe it would be a light clicking noise (Im guessing it could be buffer related) every second or two.

We are working hard on getting the store setup so we can start selling it.

I would rather buy it on physical media if at all possible. Is/will it be possible to buy the windows installation cd and copy the game data off it? (Similar to how the id releases work for linux games). However, if downloading is going to be the only option I will still happily buy it.

Good work so far, hope we aren't kept waiting much longer!

[Urkle]

What distribution of Linux are you running??
And did you run the full installer of the upgrade installer?

I've just dowloaded Penumbra demo Beta3, the installer doesn't work at all on my system. Although the installer says that the game was installed successfully, Nixstaller install almost nothing.
It creates the Penumbra directory and inside the directory there is an archive called "arch.tar" with a size of zero!

At the end of install, the Nixstaller window is :
- Progess is fully yellow
- "Status: Settings Selinux Contexts (2/2)"
- "Execute: chcon -t textrel_shlib_t lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0 || true"

And during the installation, I have never seen any files copy procedure...

In the terminal on which I have launched the Nixstaller, here it was printed :

Code: (Select All)

Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing nixstaller....................................................................
Collecting info for this system...
Operating system: linux
CPU Arch: x86
C libraries: /lib/libc.so.6
C++ libraries: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5.0.2.apkg /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.8
Nixstaller version 0.2, Copyright (C) 2006 of Rick Helmus
Nixstaller comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
Nixstaller is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the about section for details.
sh: chcon: command not found

So what the matter?

[foulmetal]

What distribution of Linux are you running??

I use Archlinux i686, "Voodoo" release (0.8).
Glib version 2.5

And did you run the full installer of the upgrade installer?

It was the full installer.

Ok, ok, I've finally found why the installer didn't work.. This is because my /tmp partition is only 256MB.. I ran the installer by changing the "--target" for uncompressing temporally files elsewhere.

Maybe Nixtaller should tell something when it doesn't succeed with the files extraction.

PS : I'm a future buyer! ;-)

[foulmetal]

This 3rd Beta is even better but sometimes sound is jerking, the man's sound speech is perfect at the intro.

Yes sound is jerking sometimes : interrupted by micro blanks and sound appears to be slowed.

My sound card is a chipset integrated into the motherboard :
Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller.
The card is alone on his IRQ (#19).
And I'm using Alsa drivers from kernel 2.6.20 (snd_via82xx)

[MIT_Service]

I have another issue with the Installer:
I'm running the upgrade on Gentoo Linux:

$ ./PenumbraDemoUpgrade-Beta3.sh
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing nixstaller....................................................................
Collecting info for this system...
Operating system: linux
CPU Arch: x86
C libraries: /lib/libc.so.6
C++ libraries: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.7.2 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.7.2.8 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.8 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.8.0 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.9 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.9.0
Error: Couldn't find any suitable frontend for your system


There is a workaround posted at The Linux Game Tome:
http://www.happypenguin.org/show?Penumbr...pisode%201

[DeeKey]

Still not able to run under Ubuntu 6.06

I have upgraded from Beta 2 to beta 3 with the script.

The output is the same:
denis@ubuntu:~/PenumbraEp1Demo$ ./penumbrademo
./penumbrademo.bin: /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by ./lib/libalut.so.0)
Penumbra exited unexpectedly, please check
/home/denis/.frictionalgames/Penumbra Overture/Episode1/hpl.log
for any error messages
Also try running
ulimit -c unlimited
And re-running Penumbra and try and recreate the error
then submit the generated core file or stack trace
/home/denis/PenumbraEp1Demo


Later will try downloading the clean Beta3