Call for testing: Flare - an open source 2D RPG

As the weekend is upon us, it is probably time for another bit of gaming fun. This time I’ve snapped http://flarerpg.org/ - a free 2D action RPG in a similar style to the early Diablo games.

To install:
sudo snap install flare-rpg

Due to a bug which is fixed upstream, audio will not work until you manually type:
sudo snap connect flare-rpg:process-control

Please try this on your machine, and let me know if it works on your particular hardware. I’m keen to know about your graphics card/drivers etc.

Cheers and enjoy!

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Thanks so much for doing this.
Worked here on my Intel based 16.04 KDE Neon machine.

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You mean this is fixed in their master or something? :slight_smile: Could we have master as an edge build maybe?

It’s a snapd bug, which is fixed and will trickle down to us eventually.

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yay! thanks! i don’t haz to compile the game anymore X-) . seems to work on 16.04 intel

:frowning: didn’t work for me…

➜ ~ flare-rpg
INFO: Custom data path: “/snap/flare-rpg/8/” INFO: Flare 1.0 (Linux) *** stack smashing detected ***: /snap/flare-rpg/8/usr/games/flare terminated [1] 26940 abort (core dumped) flare-rpg

➜ ~ snap version snap 2.31.2-1 snapd 2.31.2-1 series 16 arch
kernel 4.15.9-1-ARCH

That sounds unpleasant. I haven’t a clue how to start debugging that. Do other snaps run well on your machine?

Not every snap, chromium (no H/W Acceleration)… PPSSPP didn’t work same stack error, VLC also didn’t work for me…

 ➜  ~ screenfetch
                   -`                 
                  .o+`                 syntist@Syntist-PC
                 `ooo/                 OS: Arch Linux 
                `+oooo:                Kernel: x86_64 Linux 4.15.9-1-ARCH
               `+oooooo:               Uptime: 1h 12m
               -+oooooo+:              Packages: 796
             `/:-:++oooo+:             Shell: zsh 5.4.2
            `/++++/+++++++:            Resolution: 1920x1080
           `/++++++++++++++:           DE: GNOME 
          `/+++ooooooooooooo/`         WM: GNOME Shell
         ./ooosssso++osssssso+`        WM Theme: Adapta
        .oossssso-````/ossssss+`       GTK Theme: Adapta [GTK2/3]
       -osssssso.      :ssssssso.      Icon Theme: Papirus-Adapta
      :osssssss/        osssso+++.     Font: Ubuntu 11
     /ossssssss/        +ssssooo/-     CPU: Intel Core i5-3570 @ 4x 3.8GHz [27.8°C]
   `/ossssso+/:-        -:/+osssso+-   GPU: GeForce GT 640
  `+sso+:-`                 `.-/+oso:  RAM: 3478MiB / 11956MiB
 `++:.                           `-/+/
 .`                                 `/

Interesting. Do you have a file called ~/snap/flare-rpg/current/.config/flare/settings.txt? If so, can you try changing hwsurface to 0?

Nope :frowning:

Can you try starting up with this file: https://ovh.themcphails.uk/index.php/s/C3sj69cKECKdBqF

Ubuntu 18.04 with Intel® HD Graphics 620 (Kaby Lake GT2)
FPS pretty low, but playable.
An issue when i enable “hardware surfaces” in settings:
image

snap core
installed: 16-2.32~pre4+git612.2003af8 (4259)

snap flare-rpg
installed: 1.0 (8) 179MB -

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No luck, after that the window appear i did continue and the same output…

➜  ~ flare-rpg
INFO: Custom data path: "/snap/flare-rpg/8/"
INFO: Flare 1.0 (Linux)
*** stack smashing detected ***: /snap/flare-rpg/8/usr/games/flare terminated
[1]    29437 abort (core dumped)  flare-rpg

You can try beta/edge version of core, i had issue with spotify on stable.

snap refresh core --channel=beta
or
snap refresh core --channel=edge

and retest if game will run

No luck tried both channel

Do any of the other SDL games I have in the store work for you (boa or talesofmajeyal)?

@zyga-snapd may know what to do since this is snappy on Arch?

Hmm, same stack problem :frowning:

➜ ~ boa GZDoom g3.2.3-79-gafa5b28 - 2017-12-10 16:27:36 +0000 - SDL version Compiled on Feb 15 2018

M_LoadDefaults: Load system defaults. W_Init: Init WADfiles. adding gzdoom.pk3, 671 lumps adding zd_extra.pk3, 122 lumps adding /snap/boa/134/wolf_boa.pk3, 14294 lumps I_Init: Setting up machine state. CPU Vendor ID: GenuineIntel Name: Intel(R) Core™ i5-3570 CPU @ 3.40GHz Family 6, Model 58, Stepping 9 Features: SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE4.1 SSE4.2 I_InitSound: Initializing OpenAL AL lib: (WW) ReadALConfig: Ignoring XDG config dir: Opened device Built-in Audio Analog Stereo EFX enabled V_Init: allocate screen. S_Init: Setting up sound. ST_Init: Init startup screen. Checking cmd-line parameters… S_InitData: Load sound definitions. G_ParseMapInfo: Load map definitions. Texman.Init: Init texture manager. ParseTeamInfo: Load team definitions. LoadActors: Load actor definitions. script parsing took 570.38 ms R_Init: Init Doom refresh subsystem. DecalLibrary: Load decals. M_Init: Init menus. P_Init: Init Playloop state. ParseSBarInfo: Loading custom status bar definition. a Realm667 project D_CheckNetGame: Checking network game status. player 1 of 1 (1 nodes) *** stack smashing detected ***: /snap/boa/134/bin/gzdoom terminated /snap/boa/134/launcher: line 83: 3531 Aborted (core dumped) ${SNAP}/bin/gzdoom -iwad ${SNAP}/wolf_boa.pk3 -config ${GAMEDIR}/boa.conf -savedir ${GAMEDIR}

OK, so it looks like it might be an issue with snaps on your distro. I’m afraid I’m not clever enough to be able to guide you on how to fix this.

Thanks for the help though :slight_smile: