[psychonauts] S3TM

[Aldric Giacomoni]

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
> http://entertainingsoftware.com/
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