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Posted November 09, 2024
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madame-rachelle: It probably won't work anymore if you use any distro that isn't based on Debian...
I'm on Linux Mint 22 which is Debian based and Hands of Necromancy doesn't work for me either.
Posted November 11, 2024
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madame-rachelle: It probably won't work anymore if you use any distro that isn't based on Debian...
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LinuxFire: I'm on Linux Mint 22 which is Debian based and Hands of Necromancy doesn't work for me either.
You probably have a driver or hardware incompatibility then because Mint is my primary testing distro and it works perfectly on my copy of Mint.

Try running it from your terminal and see what messages come up.
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madame-rachelle: It probably won't work anymore if you use any distro that isn't based on Debian. That being said, you can self-compile and if you do you are guaranteed to get a version that works with your distro because it will compile from the libraries that your distro uses.
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Der_Pit: FWIW, I had similar issues, on openSUSE Tumbleweed, after upgrading KDE/Plasma.

I moved all the supplied libs into a subfolder, so the game would use my system libs instead. The only one I had to copy back was libvpx.so.7.
With that, the game started, but bailed out with an error, complaining about an unknown keyword:

Script error, IWADINFO line 285:
Unknown keyword 'SkipBexStringsIfLanguage'

This turned out to come from an installed version of gzdoom, that had also been upgraded (to 4.13.2). Seems you use an older version that doesn't support this.

If I move /usr/share/doom out of the way, HoN runs flawlessly.

You should probably make sure that your changed version does not read configurations from other/standard gzdoom directories....
Can you post a startup log where you trigger that error?
Post edited November 11, 2024 by madame-rachelle
Posted November 12, 2024
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madame-rachelle: Can you post a startup log where you trigger that error?
Well, there's not much of a startup log anywhere. If I start it from a terminal, all I get is

speedy:game% ./handsofnecromancy
Hands of Necromancy hon1-v3.0-gz - 2024-07-04 15:37:49 -0400 - SDL version
Compiled on Jul 4 2024

OS: openSUSE Tumbleweed, Linux 6.11.6-2-default on x86_64
Hands of Necromancy version hon1-v3.0-gz
Then a dialog pops up with the abovementioned error about SkipBexStringsIfLanguage.

I did run strace on it, and there I can see

newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/doom/game_support.pk3", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2370619, ...}, 0) = 0
newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/doom/game_support.pk3", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2370619, ...}, 0) = 0
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/doom/game_support.pk3", O_RDONLY) = 9
This pak file belongs to the install of gzdoom 4.13, and contains the demurred definition.
But as I said, handsofnecromancy should never (try to) read that file on first hand.
Posted November 13, 2024
That is still helpful information. That means it needs to load not any of the optional files that come with GZDoom.

Will be addressed in the next update.
Post edited November 13, 2024 by madame-rachelle
Posted November 29, 2024
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LinuxFire: I'm on Linux Mint 22 which is Debian based and Hands of Necromancy doesn't work for me either.
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madame-rachelle: You probably have a driver or hardware incompatibility then because Mint is my primary testing distro and it works perfectly on my copy of Mint.
I assure you that everything is fine in my Mint 22.0 operating system, and for this sale price I also offered the game to an Ubuntu user to check and he told me he had the same problem.

In addition my other Linux games on GOG work well for most of them, I'm still happy to see the Linux version and I keep the game waiting for your next maj, thank you for your work madame-rachelle.
Posted January 04, 2025
Sound is not working on Mint 22 for me, but I'm guessing it's probably because I've had general audio issues since upgrading from 21. I'm using pulseaudio because pipewire was completely broken for me.

EDIT: NVM. Was running through Heroic. Works fine if I run ./start.sh
Post edited January 04, 2025 by t-elos
Posted February 10, 2025
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madame-rachelle: That is still helpful information. That means it needs to load not any of the optional files that come with GZDoom.

Will be addressed in the next update.
Any news on that?

HoN2 suffers from the same issue, BTW.
Posted February 13, 2025
Unfortunately this bug snuck by and I forgot to fix it, I was dealing with a lot of other issues updating the engine due to security fixes upstream (GZDoom).

The next update will work with GZDoom's current game_support.pk3 without issues, but if changes the archive again then the problem will come up again, unfortunately.

The only thing I can suggest is after the next update, do a `cp /dev/null /path/to/hon/game_support.pk3` as a workaround - an empty archive should(?) block the loading of the OS's default archives. If that doesn't work, then you'll have to throw it into a docker container or move the system-wide game_support.pk3 into ~/.config/gzdoom (HON will not look here).
Post edited February 13, 2025 by madame-rachelle
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