[Linux] essential details (like zones, road previews) not rendered in game [HACK WORKAROUND]

Tried this brutal hack and ended up with:

Code:

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/ruben/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

I am running 64 bit arch on Intel laptop. 32/64-bit issue?

And obviously I have no idea what I am doing....

 

No, Radeon. I just thought it's the same cause it's Mesa, too, and even AndrewT's compendium thread for known fixes states (funny enough without even thinking about Intel) :

//EDIT:

This ERROR is there with every single game on steam, just ignore it. What exactly did you try?

 

To make it clear for everyone, the mesa hack in this thread is for Intel integrated graphics only. Don't bother with it if you have (issues with) discrete graphics.

 

@feudikbenson I'm using 64 bit Ubuntu 14.04. Here are some more detailed instructions on how to get the game up and running.
NOTE: This is only required for users with a single Intel graphics card!

1. Download Mesa: http://www.mesa3d.org/download.html (e.g. ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/10.5.2/mesa-10.5.2.tar.xz)
2. Download the patch: http://paste.debian.net/165023/
3. Unpack the Mesa source
4. Open a terminal and change to the source directory
5. Apply the patch: patch < ~/Downloads/paste_165023
6. Run: LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo 2>&1 >/dev/null | grep so$
7. If the output ends with "i965_dri.so", you'll need the i965 drivers
8. Replace DIR with a path somewhere in your home directory and run the following command: ./configure --prefix=DIR --with-dri-drivers=i965 --with-gallium-drivers=""
9. Run: make
10. Run: make install
11. Set the launch options to: LD_LIBRARY_PATH="DIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" %command%
12. Enjoy the game

 

YOU ARE MY HEROES! Thanks a lot! This hack also works great for me! (Intel HD 4000).
@developers: Is there a chance that this can be fixed in the game?

 

This sounds as if they use a different rendering path on Nvidia hardware (NvidiaGL) which seems to be Mesa compatible (this is somehow strange, Mesa is way more strict to the OpenGL standard than Nvidia). So in theory they could detect Mesa/Intel and just treat it the same way.

BTW: Normally games using an extra Nvidia rendering path have the typical logo at startup:

So I wonder why it's missing here and if the rendering path comes from Unity or the game itself.

 

There is a less intrusive workaround that works for me with unpatched mesa. Use this environment variable in launch options to disable Unity workarounds:

Code:

UNITY_DISABLE_GRAPHICS_DRIVER_WORKAROUNDS=yes %command%

Hat tip to @co_damsku for the suggestion.

 

@AndrewT How about adding this to the known fixes thread as a workaround for running the game on Intel integrated graphics?

 

Code:

UNITY_DISABLE_GRAPHICS_DRIVER_WORKAROUNDS=yes %command%

works for me too! Thanks!

 

Huzzah! It works!

 

+1 here too. I guess that info can help the devs find the true fix by passing the info to unity in the game directly

 

I still have no pics on map choosing menu, and the resources GUI under never changed...
Any fix? Thx!

 

@hurrah That workaround is even better!
@s0r00t I'm having the same problem with both workarounds.

 

I saw on another topic that you had to rename a folder, but dunno which folder...
(also, how did you register C:S to your paradox account? I can't ;-; )

 

Renaming a directory doesn't sound like it could resolve such an issue. If it was related to inconsistent capitalization, shouldn't it also affect mac users?
I registered City Skylines before they switched the forums software. Have you tried it here?

 

Some thing related to PNG (afaik PNG lib) cannot be loaded, because there's an error in the folder. I'll try something.
And there's no "Cities: Skylines" in the redeem code panel :/

 

also works for me! great!

 

Hi, for me adding

Code:

LD_PRELOAD=/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1

to the launch options did the trick to have pictures in the map choosing menu (and at various other places).
I'm using 64-bit Ubuntu and depending on your distribution this file could be located somewhere else. So make sure that this file actually exists. It seems like the game tries to load an incompatible libz.so from the Steam installation without this parameter (but this is spure speculation )

Here are my complete launch options:

Code:

LD_PRELOAD=/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 UNITY_DISABLE_GRAPHICS_DRIVER_WORKAROUNDS=yes %command%

And also thousand thanks @hurrah, with your workaround I was finally able to play this game!

 

This is getting better and better
Thanks for sharing @poolbewohner !

 

@poolbewohner I tried a similar workaround (renaming the files in the runtime, so also forcing the game to use the system libraries) some time back and while it works in most cases it might crash the game randomly at the main menu (which is caused by the steam workshop images scrolling around at the right side of the main menu. If there's "a bad one" it will crash). So if it crashes just remove the workaround for some time.

More informations on that:
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...itors-completely-broken.849604/#post-19167980
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...kshop-update-broke-game.851478/#post-19187741
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...ux-sigsegv-on-main-menu.850215/#post-19187757

I'm just posting all this links here as the bug reports are splitted all around the forums and I think CO will have a much easier reading when everything is collected at one place (here, for example).