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saif

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Registered: 2010-05-21

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Native Dawn of War 2 not working

Anyone had the chance to try this out on Steam?

I am using mesa 12, AMD 280X videocard and Gnome 3. Game launches but nothing happens. Some times launcher in windowed mode appears but nothing happens after pressing Play.

Can't launch it from terminal since it runs through Steam so not much of idea into how debug the issue

Saif

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Registered: 2013-04-10

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Re: Native Dawn of War 2 not working

Can't launch it from terminal since it runs through Steam so not much of idea into how debug the issue

You should be able to launch it with

$ /usr/bin/steam steam://rungameid/<game_id>

Even if you start steam with desktop launcher, and launch the game from steam, you should see steam output with possible errors in journal.

Mollom

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From: Ffm - Germany

Registered: 2008-07-01

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Re: Native Dawn of War 2 not working

Try this https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/St … _of_War_II

saif

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Registered: 2010-05-21

Posts: 59

Re: Native Dawn of War 2 not working

Try this https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/St … _of_War_II

Thanks.
Following the troubleshooting solves the issue partially. Replaced all if statement with suggested line to make it work due to the different default path to libasound library.
Partially because the launcher sometimes doesn't start and some times it does

Can't launch it from terminal since it runs through Steam so not much of idea into how debug the issue

You should be able to launch it with

$ /usr/bin/steam steam://rungameid/<game_id>

Even if you start steam with desktop launcher, and launch the game from steam, you should see steam output with possible errors in journal.

Unfortunately, executing by using this way doesnt help much to debug

[saif@archlinux ~]$ /usr/bin/steam-preload steam://rungameid/56400
/home/saif/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 154: VERSION_ID: unbound variable
/home/saif/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 154: VERSION_ID: unbound variable
Running Steam on arch  64-bit
/home/saif/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 154: VERSION_ID: unbound variable
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
[saif@archlinux ~]$ 

Saif

Last edited by saif (2016-10-03 04:30:38)

cedlemo

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From: France

Registered: 2016-02-16

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Re: Native Dawn of War 2 not working

@Saif,

I bought this game yesterday and I had the same issue than you.
In order to see what was the issue, I tried to launch the binary directly (not the script that launches the binary but the binary itself)

I can not give you the full path because I have a custom directory where I install my games but here is the name of the binary you should try to launch:

common/Dawn of War 2/bin/DawnOfWar2

In order to be sure that it is an elf (binary file) you can do a:

file DawnOfWar2 
DawnOfWar2: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.24, BuildID[sha1]=6f319b099a7d03a6d301154dd371f69706b2ca20, stripped