"and it will even see a DRM free release on GOG"

As a GOG only user this means they've got more 1 sale here :-)

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Bumping this to let everyone know that the game is still broken with drivers 352.21, however the workaround still works. If anyone could kindly test this on a 970/980 and report back. You can find the link my previous post. :)

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Quoting: GuestNever bought a game on gog but does they provide a tarball/zip for the game or an installer?

Most GOG Linux games come with a tarball archive, only the small ones have a deb + tarball. Also they come with some additional libraries for out of the box support and a simple "start.sh" script to play the game.

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After a few hours tinkering with this I found a good workaround that should work for everyone running drivers up to 349.16, I would appreciate a proper fix but at least this will make the game playable again, no guarantee is given that it won't break with some newer driver in the future.

Screenshot:


So again:

1. Download Driver: 346.47 - http://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/82252/en-us

2. Extract it using "./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-346.47.run -x"

3. Copy these 4 files: libnvidia-glcore.so.346.47, libnvidia-tls.so.346.47, libGL.so.346.47 and the 'tls' folder. (The 32bit versions can be found in the folder named "32" ).

4. Go to your Grimrock folder and paste them in lib / lib64 accordingly.

5. Rename the file "libGL.so.346.47" to "libGL.so.1"

This will make the game run normally using a mix of libraries from your installed driver and the libraries you just added.

Direct link for the fix above (if you wanna skip the whole process): Grimrock_GTX900_Fix_(tested_up_to_349_16).tar.gz

Disclaimer: The following method has been tested only with a GTX 960 and drivers 349.16.

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Following slaapliedje's comment regarding the 343.36 drivers and his 980, I just decided to give them a shot on my 960.

The important bits:

Being old and without official support for the GTX 960 (card was not out yet), the 343.36 installs just fine and without issues, it simply recognizes the card as "Graphics Device".

Grimrock ran fine with those drivers, no errors, full details, switching between full screen/windowed/borderless mode worked too.

I will try to forward these findings to Almost Human and Nvidia, resorting to old drivers to play 1 game isn't exactly optimal.

UPDATE:

Ok so good and bad news:

The good is that I got Grimrock to run on drivers 349.16 and will most likely run on any other driver past 343.36.

The bad is that while the game runs there are no visible textures, sound works fine though.

This was all done on a 64bit Mint 17.1 using the 32bit version of Grimrock, the 64bit still gives a segmentation fault. Screenshot:

What I did:

Extracted the NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-343.36.run using the command "./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-343.36.run -x" to extract it's contents without installing

Went into the folder named 32 and copied these 3 files: libnvidia-glcore.so.343.36 / libnvidia-tls.so.343.36 / libGL.so.343.36

Renamed libGL.so.343.36 to libGL.so.1

Will keep working on this.

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Quoting: shigutsowhy is the oficial wine ubuntu ppa abandoned? the newest version there is 1.7.38... am I missing something? :(

If you use Wine for gaming then I suggest Wine-Staging, it's updated more frequently and games run better due to the CSMT feature: https://launchpad.net/~pipelight/+archive/ubuntu/stable/+packages

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Tried the latest beta driver 352.09, doesn't work either.

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While this is good news, people shouldn't shy away from buying DOSBox based games on GOG if they don't have an official Linux package.

ssokolow already said it all so no need to add anything else :)

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It's also available on GOG.com: http://www.gog.com/game/invisible_inc

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Not counting the ones that don't participate in the survey, the numbers are probably higher. I don't use Steam but I buy Linux exclusive games on GoG and occasionally Humble Bundle too.

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