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HOWTO: Run FeralHeart on Linux-based systems. BLACK SCREEN
« on: July 07, 2014, 03:34:17 am »
So I found this tutorial on how to get Feral Heart on Ubuntu, and so far it was successful, except where the window is completely black. I don't know if it has something to do with "mesa*" or the error message "An internal system error has occured. Please refer to DXerror.log and DirectX.log in your windows folder to determine the problem." Please help me resolve this issue! I really wanna play Feral Heart badly, I haven't been on it for several months!
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Re: HOWTO: Run FeralHeart on Linux-based systems. BLACK SCREEN
« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2014, 04:42:07 am »
Does it look somethin' like this?:



If so, while I'm not that acknowledged with the Ubuntu software, take a look at this, ma'am. Mayhaps it'll help ye':


The absolute First thing you want to try is to change the rendering mode for the game. There's different rendering modes you can pick from, usually OpenGL and Direct3D9. This decides which way your graphic card should process the game. This one is at standard set to OpenGL, so we'd want to set it to Direct3D9.

There's 2 ways you can change this setting.

How to fix it!
Either you start the game, go into the options menu, click the Video tab, and then change the rendering subsystem and restart the game.

Sometimes you aren't able to even enter the game, and all you can hear is the menu music, or it just crashes directly after launch. Those who experience this can enter the feralheart folder located in C:\FeralHeart at standard, find the file called "Ogre.cfg" and open it with wordpad.

This file works just as the ingame options menu, but instead of buttons and sliders, there's text.

What we're interested in is the top row


Set the top row text so it is just like in the picture with the text
Code: [Select]
Render System=Direct3D9 Rendering Subsystem
Save the file, and close it. Next time you run the game it should boot with the new settings you applied.

Even though this solves the graphical problems for most, there's still some unlucky ferals out there that the problems still remain for, but there's still 1 more thing you can try, and that is to update your graphic card drivers.

A computer is hardware, and with time it gets old just like any other thing in this world. If you had your computer for a while, and never updated the drivers, this might be the cause for FeralHeart not to work correctly. Installing Drivers for your computer is like installing any other program that it might need, though knowing how to do this might be tricky, so check the tutorial on how to Here!

If you already tried this and it's not working, chances are that your computer is getting old and can't handle the game. Installing drivers might help, but you're still running the same hardware. Try the game on another computer instead.

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Re: HOWTO: Run FeralHeart on Linux-based systems. BLACK SCREEN
« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2014, 11:37:14 pm »
Actually, no, I can't login at all. It's at the very beginning (skipping the options menu), and it'll ask me if I want to force quit or wait. I installed GLUT to enable Open GL, and it gave me the options screen and I clicked OK and it crashed and now it's back to the way it was. I'll try to see if it might help, though.
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Re: HOWTO: Run FeralHeart on Linux-based systems. BLACK SCREEN
« Reply #3 on: July 09, 2014, 09:37:22 am »
Linux is not too keen on DirectX and you should probably run OpenGL for the game.

Try tp install Wine and run FeralHeart through that if you haven't already.
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Re: HOWTO: Run FeralHeart on Linux-based systems. BLACK SCREEN
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2014, 09:26:43 pm »
Hey, wait a minute, does FeralHeart use Unity3D? I read somewhere that it does. Do you know the terminal commands for downloading it?
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Re: HOWTO: Run FeralHeart on Linux-based systems. BLACK SCREEN
« Reply #5 on: July 14, 2014, 04:07:57 am »
FeralHeart does not use unity3d, so you don't need it anyway. As for linux, you probably need to install proper graphics driver. FH is reported to work with nvidia, fglrx, intel-gen6+, radeon-r300g, radeon-r600g drivers. FH may not work with radeonsi, nouveau, older intel gpus including gma and other non-listed drivers (tdfx, mga, etc)

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Re: HOWTO: Run FeralHeart on Linux-based systems. BLACK SCREEN
« Reply #6 on: July 17, 2014, 07:02:19 pm »
Um, does it work on Ubuntu 13.10? Or do I need to update to 14.04?
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