[B18] Unplayable on Linux

[5myosin]

There are a couple threads about this on the steam forum, but it hasn't been posted here and seems to be ignored thus far.
Thread 1 :
http://steamcommunity.com/app/294100/discussions/0/1483235412210946649/
Thread 2 :
http://steamcommunity.com/app/294100/discussions/0/3183345176712984233/ (the screenshots linked to are similar to the ones I see).

I myself am using Ubuntu 17.10

[Calahan]

There are a few threads about this issue on this forum, just not in the bugs section (because it's not a bug in the game). Including a thread by the same person who created one of those Steam threads.

Basically, the problem is that Unity got updated for B18, and that Unity update broke support for some older GPU's / GPU driver under Linux. Some users have been able to resolve this problem by updating their GPU drivers, while for others there was no solution available because their GPU just doesn't support OpenGL 3+ (that the Unity update now requires as a minimum).

Here are three other support threads about the issue (the first one is the one by that same Steam user).

https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=36972.0
https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=37123.0
https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=36958.0


So please can you check that your GPU drivers are up to date, and if they are please check with the GPU manufacturer as to what OpenGL support your GPU has.

[5myosin]

Thanks, this worked for me!

[Calahan]

That's good to hear, and thank you for posting again with an update to let us know (we really appreciate it when people do that so that we know which support threads are still open and which have been resolved).

[kithros]

Make sure that if you have an intel graphics chipset that you are really using the X11 drivers for intel. On my Centos7 machine i had to remove the kernel switch "nomodeset" so it would stop using the ati/vesa/fb drivers and allow it to access OpenGL profiles higher than 2.1

YMMV but it worked for me.