I'm trying to run Spring for the first time on Ubuntu 13.10. When I launch a single player game from the lobby, a splash screen appears for less than a second and then the game crashes. I suspect this is a video card thing. I tried both the open source and proprietary driver for my video card, and got the same results.
Infolog.txt attached.
Any help is appreciated.
Please help with game crash
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Please help with game crash
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Re: Please help with game crash
you are trying to run "Spring 88.0 (OMP)". this is very outdated!
the oldest version currently in use is spring 91.0, though most games (except ZK) use 96.0, and a new release should come soon.
either your lobby should download a newer version for you, or you have to update your ubuntu packet sources, or download the static version of spring.
see http://springrts.com/wiki/Download
the oldest version currently in use is spring 91.0, though most games (except ZK) use 96.0, and a new release should come soon.
either your lobby should download a newer version for you, or you have to update your ubuntu packet sources, or download the static version of spring.
see http://springrts.com/wiki/Download
Re: Please help with game crash
Thanks so much for your help.
I'm not having luck with updating the repositories, so I downloaded the static binary (.7z). But where do I extract this? It seems like there might be some installation script I'm not seeing... The help on the site here isn't clear on this detail and I'm a bit of a noob in Linux.
I'm not having luck with updating the repositories, so I downloaded the static binary (.7z). But where do I extract this? It seems like there might be some installation script I'm not seeing... The help on the site here isn't clear on this detail and I'm a bit of a noob in Linux.
Re: Please help with game crash
You should be able to just launch the static binary ("cd extractedSpring && ./spring") if you have the few dynamically linked libraries it still needs (those are mostly libsdl or libsdl2 depending on which version and some boost).
You can get most of that by apt-get build-dep spring, and if they are missing, you'll get a message telling about that when launching Spring from CLI.
After that you might want to link your downloaded binary from your lobby. Though most currently active lobbies will just automatically download an appropriate engine for you upon joining a room that requires this engine.
You can get most of that by apt-get build-dep spring, and if they are missing, you'll get a message telling about that when launching Spring from CLI.
After that you might want to link your downloaded binary from your lobby. Though most currently active lobbies will just automatically download an appropriate engine for you upon joining a room that requires this engine.