Application Details:
Version: | Aftershock |
License: | |
URL: | http://www.planetside.com/ |
Votes: | 2 |
Latest Rating: | Platinum |
Latest Wine Version Tested: | 1.6.2 |
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Experienced an issue involving system libraries for Mesa. Resolved by the below HOWTO (libtxc_dxtn.so). Not classifying this as a problem with PlanetSide, therefore the platinum rating.
Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
Current | Gentoo Linux | May 14 2014 | 1.6.2 | Yes | Yes | Platinum | Digital | ||
Show | Arch Linux | Aug 08 2009 | 1.1.27 | Yes | Yes | Gold | Tomek Åazarowicz | ||
Show | Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | May 09 2008 | 0.9.61. | Yes | No | Garbage | Jon | ||
Show | Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Feb 13 2008 | 0.9.54. | Yes | Yes | Silver | an anonymous user | ||
Show | Ubuntu 7.04 "Feisty" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jul 10 2007 | 0.9.40. | Yes | Yes | Gold | Paradexes |
Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
On Gentoo systems, PlanetSide will not work out of the box due to a missing Mesa library (note: if you are using proprietary AMD or NVIDIA graphics drivers, you probably won't need to worry about this) . Here are the steps and triage I used to debug the issues I was having.
Upon start, the PlanetSide window would launch, sound would be heard, but nothing would get drawn. The console was being spammed with messages similar to:
err:d3d_surface:
This search led me to this bug which says that libtxc_dxtn.so is required for PlanetSide to load textures. To verify that this was in fact the missing library, I ran: MESA_DEBUG=1 wine LaunchPad.exe
and looked for the error: Mesa warning: couldn't open libtxc_dxtn.so, software DXTn compression/decompression unavailable
. This appeared and I resolved the problem by running emerge -va media-libs/libtxc_dxtn
(for Debian/Ubuntu run apt-get install libtxc-dxtn-s2tc
). I hope this resolves most people's problems with this specific issue.
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