[psychonauts] S3TM

[Luiji Maryo]

Interesting. I would totally do that, but I have no idea of which
BugZilla you are talking about. =|

Thanks,
-L

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Aldric Giacomoni <trevoke at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Luiji,
>
> Since what you're mentioning might be a bug, or a problem running
> Psychonauts, maybe you should try to open a bug report on bugzilla instead?
> I'm not quite sure where the line is drawn..
>
> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Luiji Maryo <luiji at users.sourceforge.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello:
>>
>> I recently purchased Humble Bundle V, primarily so that I could play
>> Psychonauts on my netbook while on long airplane flights. I didn't
>> find out until afterwards that it required S3TM, which my netbook's
>> Intel card does not support. (I'm not too saddened, though, I'm
>> crazy-loving Super Meat Boy and Bastion).
>>
>> I successfully got Bastion running despite the S3TM "dependency." By
>> setting the environment variable "force_s3tm_enabled=true" on my Arch
>> Linux machine, Bastion ignores the lack of S3TM and plays normally.
>>
>> Psychonauts, when combined with the same adjustment, starts up and
>> plays the initial cut scene smoothly. (Nostalgia!) Sadly, when it
>> comes to the section where I must select a bed, all it renders is
>> Raz's clothing in slightly-shaded white and some really screwed up
>> text (note: the message about shaders at the beginning of the game
>> displays correctly, though).
>>
>> Hence, I have two questions:
>>
>> 1. Why would that environment variable fix work for Bastion perfectly
>> but not for Psychonauts in any playable way? Is it perhaps an
>> unrelated bug? I'm running on a 64-bit system using the linux32
>> command and a series of 32-bit compatibility libraries I downloaded
>> from the package repositories.
>>
>> 2. Why does Psychonauts even need S3TM? From what I understand, it's
>> just a texture compression algorithm. Since Bastion functioned, I
>> assume it compresses it in VRAM instead of in the data files as a way
>> to conserve resources. Is this really necessary?
>>
>> Thank you for your time, and I appreciate any help I can get. I would
>> love to play Psychonauts on the plain, it's a major-throwback for me
>> (despite it only being seven years old).
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> - Luiji Maryo
>> luiji at users.sourceforge.net
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