Hi Luiji,<div><br></div><div>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..<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Luiji Maryo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:luiji@users.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">luiji@users.sourceforge.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hello:<br>
<br>
I recently purchased Humble Bundle V, primarily so that I could play<br>
Psychonauts on my netbook while on long airplane flights. I didn't<br>
find out until afterwards that it required S3TM, which my netbook's<br>
Intel card does not support. (I'm not too saddened, though, I'm<br>
crazy-loving Super Meat Boy and Bastion).<br>
<br>
I successfully got Bastion running despite the S3TM "dependency." By<br>
setting the environment variable "force_s3tm_enabled=true" on my Arch<br>
Linux machine, Bastion ignores the lack of S3TM and plays normally.<br>
<br>
Psychonauts, when combined with the same adjustment, starts up and<br>
plays the initial cut scene smoothly. (Nostalgia!) Sadly, when it<br>
comes to the section where I must select a bed, all it renders is<br>
Raz's clothing in slightly-shaded white and some really screwed up<br>
text (note: the message about shaders at the beginning of the game<br>
displays correctly, though).<br>
<br>
Hence, I have two questions:<br>
<br>
1. Why would that environment variable fix work for Bastion perfectly<br>
but not for Psychonauts in any playable way? Is it perhaps an<br>
unrelated bug? I'm running on a 64-bit system using the linux32<br>
command and a series of 32-bit compatibility libraries I downloaded<br>
from the package repositories.<br>
<br>
2. Why does Psychonauts even need S3TM? From what I understand, it's<br>
just a texture compression algorithm. Since Bastion functioned, I<br>
assume it compresses it in VRAM instead of in the data files as a way<br>
to conserve resources. Is this really necessary?<br>
<br>
Thank you for your time, and I appreciate any help I can get. I would<br>
love to play Psychonauts on the plain, it's a major-throwback for me<br>
(despite it only being seven years old).<br>
<br>
Sincerely,<br>
- Luiji Maryo<br>
<a href="mailto:luiji@users.sourceforge.net">luiji@users.sourceforge.net</a><br>
<a href="http://entertainingsoftware.com/" target="_blank">http://entertainingsoftware.com/</a><br>
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