Black menu caused by missing fonts and GUI textures

[frex]

The system is 32 bit Fedora Linux 19 with Xfce, on a laptop that isn't exactly gaming, with intel graphics but the errors aren't related to poor gl implementation from intel.

 

I've downloaded the game from this torrent: https://thepiratebay...torrent/9024163 that I've found on one of threads here.

All seems well after download but when I start the game I must go to tty2 and manually ps and kill the process because it's just black screen and music and I can't/didn't find the way to quit it. It's as if all fonts and gui assets are missing.

I get hundreds of warnings such as

WARNING:Couldn't load image: guis/assets/mainmenu/downloadable_mission_details
WARNING:Couldn't load image: guis/assets/mainmenu/oldparchment_backdrop6

related to either fonts or guis.

 

Updater in the torrent says it's up to date.

Updater from site when ran in ~/darkmod/ first updates itself then too says game is up to date:

[frex@localhost darkmod]$ ./tdm_update.linux
TDM Updater v0.61 (c) 2009-2013 by tels & greebo. Part of The Dark Mod (http://www.thedarkmod.com).
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Initialising...
Done.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cleaning up previous update session...
Done.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Downloading mirror information...
Done downloading mirrors.
  Found 7 mirrors.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Downloading CRC file...
Downloading from Mirror thegreatesttunnelhost: crc_info.txt
[=========================] 100.0% at 0 bytes/sec							
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Downloading version info file...
Downloading from Mirror SouthQuarter: tdm_version_info.txt
[=========================] 100.0% at 22 kB/sec							  
Done downloading versions. Newest version is 2.00.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Trying to match local files to version definitions...
[=========================] 100.0% File:									
Done comparing local files: local version is 2.00.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Comparing local files to server definitions...
[=========================] 100.0% File:									
Done comparing local files to server definitions.
Your TDM installation is up to date

 

Listing all of pk4 files(here with 7zips command line) and then grepping the output for missing resource that was listed when I ran ./thedarkmod.x86 like:

[frex@localhost darkmod]$ for i in *.pk4; do 7za l $i; done | grep guis/assets/mission_success/background_success
2011-10-30 19:26:04 .....	   699192	   403760  dds/guis/assets/mission_success/background_success.dds

seems to say for every file I tried that it exists but starts with additional dds/ in front compared to path game tries to load it from.

 

I attach(because it's too long to paste comfortably) the file to which I redirected stdout when launching the game, in case it's actually my laptop or intel card that is causing this problem.

darkmodout.txt

[Serpentine]

Chances are you are running into a problem with compressed textures. Have you run any other 3D games?

 

Could you look through the terminal output when you run TDM from there, look for something about "GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc", if it has a 'v' next to it, its not this issue. If it has an 'X', there's a problem.

 

If you google for GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc, you should be able to find something related to getting it working on your distro. This is normal in Linux distros which are worried about patent stuff, most liberal distros enable support by default. I know this is a common problem in Debian and something else that I can't remember.

 

Edit: Yeah it seems SuSE doesn't enable it by default.

[frex]

Could you look through the terminal output when you run TDM from there, look for something about "GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc", if it has a 'v' next to it, its not this issue. If it has an 'X', there's a problem.

Yes, that was it, menu now works, so this issue is solved, I hope I don't run into any more issues that aren't in FAQ.

Thank you for guessing it but I attached whole terminal output in first post just in case...

[Serpentine]

Thank you for guessing it but I attached whole terminal output in first post just in case...

Watching a bad movie in bed. Woke up an hour ago.

 

Reading more than like 20 words into a post is far too much like hard work right now

[gerv]

I had this problem - I got music but a black screen - on Ubuntu 12.04. I fixed it by doing:

 

sudo apt-get install driconf

 

Run driconf, and on the "Image Quality" tab, set "Enable ST3C texture compression even if software support is not available" to "Yes". Close driconf. Then, the menu worked. (Although it's still not setting the screen resolution back to the original resolution when it quits...)

 

Hope this helps someone.

 

Gerv