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jwenzel2

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Registered: 2012-10-31

Posts: 3

[SOLVED] trying to get Heros of Newerth working

hello ive just installed Arch Linux and i cant seem to get Heros of Newerth working

ive tried installiing it through the ABS but it fails to launch and with the client from the HON website i get the following error

warning: The VAD has been replaced by a hack pending a complete rewrite
K2 - Fatal Error: Couldn't load vid_gl2

i am using the official nvidia driver with both the 64 bit and 32 bit libs installed. Any help would be appreciated

Last edited by jwenzel2 (2012-10-31 01:55:14)

Svenstaro

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-11-19

Posts: 388

Re: [SOLVED] trying to get Heros of Newerth working

Do you really think people can magically know what your system is? I mean, what do you even expect. You give 1 bit of info (nvida) and expect people to be able to help you. Are you serious?

Provide at least these: lspci, lshw -C video, lshw -short, glxinfo|grep -i rend, pacman -Qs mesa, pacman -Qs nvidia, pacman -Qi linux, uname -a

jwenzel2

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Registered: 2012-10-31

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] trying to get Heros of Newerth working

i apologize for forgetting to provide those details. However looking up what provided glxgears/glxinfo lead to fixing the problem myself marking this thread as solved

Espionage724

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From: Pennsylvania, United States

Registered: 2013-09-12

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Re: [SOLVED] trying to get Heros of Newerth working

This is one of the first few results on Google in 2023. Hardware details don't matter; it's an incompatibility with the libraries included in HoN. I got this error on Intel UHD 630 with a complete and functional OpenGL stack, and HoN doesn't give any more details other than vid_gl2 not loading.

On Fedora I needed libcxxabi and libcxx packages, and removed all except these files from the libs-x86_64 folder :

libawesomium-1-7.so.5
libgcrypt.so.11
libudev.so.0
libfmodex64.so
libpng12.so.0

I started by removing the libs-x86_64 folder, running hon-x86_64, and trying to resolve library issues as they were reported.

My interest in HoN is because of Valve breaking Steam and Dota 2 on Linux without care. Had the context menu mess about a week or two ago that caused me to just use steamcmd and Goldberg, and now today https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Dota-2/issues/2390. I only do bot matches and apparently that's easy to do with HoN even with official servers shut down.

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2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 4,646

Re: [SOLVED] trying to get Heros of Newerth working

This topic is eleven years old and marked solved. Please do not necrobump. In addition, Fedora is not supported here.

Closing.