Heroes of Steel Launches on Linux on Steam!

[fallen]

Heroes of Steel has arrived on Linux with the v3.1.15 update today. During our Greenlight project, due to the high interest from Linux gamers, we added a commitment to release on Linux. It has taken almost a year, but we've finally tackled this last platform.

The Linux release includes all of the features, content and enhancements of the Windows and Mac releases, as well as the most recent update of v3.1.15.

We've tested Heroes of Steel in a few Linux environments, but of all the operating systems we know Linux has some of the most variability. Please let us know if you encounter issues!

v3.1.15 - 1/12/2015
- Team status includes all 4 team members and includes AP / MP
- Weapons, Armor, Gear list now stacked and sorted in all screens
- Double-tap or double-click to use Item
- Fixes Issues with Max HP and Stone Skin
- Fixes Issues with Max SP and +SP Armor
- Map Adjustments and Spawn Fixes

Pick up a copy today!
store.steampowered.com/app/291190

[shallowthought]

Just noticed today that this was out and thought I'd give it a shot. First step obviously was to install steam, but having read that steam is a bit iffy on linux I thought I'd try it out in a vm first. I've set up 64 bit mint in a virtualbox vm and installed steam + heroes of steel. When I run it, I get a non-responsive window, titled Cocos2dx-Linux, with a black background and the top right corner is white.

I've installed libglfw2 and 3d hardware acceleration is enabled. I'm not too sure of what version of opengl is running though - do you know how to check and upgrade it at all?

Also wondering if you ever ran/tested in a virtual machine or if I should just look at setting up an environment on my linux host where steam can't do any damage if it tries.

Thanks,
Sean

[Cory Trese]

I have done all of the development and testing so far in various virtual machines.

Do you get any console output from the game when it tries to load? Are you launching it via Steam?

[shallowthought]

Just tried it from the command line and got the following output. There's a few errors in there but I'm not really sure how to fix them.
The gameoverlayrenderer.so and libgl failing to load vboxvideo look like they may be the culprits, any ideas?

sean@mint-virt ~/Desktop $ steam steam://rungameid/291190
Running Steam on linuxmint 17 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110)
libGL error: failed to get magic
libGL error: failed to load driver: vboxvideo
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110)

(steam:2271): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita",

(steam:2271): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita",
/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:1137: error: unexpected identifier `direction', expected character `}'

(steamwebhelper:2277): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita",

(steamwebhelper:2277): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita",
/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:1137: error: unexpected identifier `direction', expected character `}'
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steamwebhelper)/version(20150123134624)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steamwebhelper)/version(1422020784)
[0213/193158:ERROR:nss_util.cc(1018)] Failed to load NSS libraries.
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steamwebhelper)/version(20150123134624)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steamwebhelper)/version(1422020784)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steamwebhelper)/version(1422020784)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110)
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 70: non-double matrix element
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 70: non-double matrix element
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 78: saw unknown, expected number
libGL error: failed to get magic
libGL error: failed to load driver: vboxvideo
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110)
FillInMachineIDInfo took a total of 0 milliseconds
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110)
Generating new string page texture 2: 128x256, total string texture memory is 131.07 KB
Generating new string page texture 3: 384x256, total string texture memory is 524.29 KB
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110)
Adding licenses for the following package(s): 0, 40835, 60574, 60859, 60860, 60861
roaming config store loaded successfully - 245 bytes.
migrating temporary roaming config store
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110)
Failed to init SteamVR because it isn't installed
libGL error: failed to get magic
libGL error: failed to load driver: vboxvideo
ExecCommandLine: ""/home/sean/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam" "steam://rungameid/291190" "
ExecSteamURL: "steam://rungameid/291190"
libGL error: failed to get magic
libGL error: failed to load driver: vboxvideo
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110)
System startup time: 12.28 seconds
Running Steam on linuxmint 17 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME has been set by the user to: /home/sean/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime
ExecCommandLine: "/home/sean/.steam/root/ubuntu12_32/steam steam://open/driverhelperready"
ExecSteamURL: "steam://open/driverhelperready"
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110)
Game update: AppID 291190 "Heroes of Steel RPG", ProcID 2392, IP 0.0.0.0:0
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/sean/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/sean/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 291190
Steam_SetMinidumpSteamID:  Caching Steam ID:  76561198211428580 [API loaded no]
libGL error: pci id for fd 29: 80ee:beef, driver (null)
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/sean/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/sean/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
OpenGL Warning: glFlushVertexArrayRangeNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glVertexArrayRangeNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glCombinerInputNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glCombinerOutputNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glCombinerParameterfNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glCombinerParameterfvNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glCombinerParameteriNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glCombinerParameterivNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glFinalCombinerInputNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glGetCombinerInputParameterfvNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glGetCombinerInputParameterivNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glGetCombinerOutputParameterfvNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glGetCombinerOutputParameterivNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glGetFinalCombinerInputParameterfvNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glGetFinalCombinerInputParameterivNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glDeleteFencesNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glFinishFenceNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glGenFencesNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glGetFenceivNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glIsFenceNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glSetFenceNV not found in mesa table
OpenGL Warning: glTestFenceNV not found in mesa table
libGL error: core dri or dri2 extension not found
libGL error: failed to load driver: vboxvideo
cocos2d-x debug info [Ready for GLSL]
cocos2d-x debug info [Ready for OpenGL 2.0]
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110)
OpenGL Warning: Unknown program 1
OpenGL Warning: Unknown program 4
OpenGL Warning: Unknown program 7
OpenGL Warning: Unknown program 10
OpenGL Warning: Unknown program 13
OpenGL Warning: Unknown program 16
OpenGL Warning: Unknown program 19
OpenGL Warning: Unknown program 22
Game removed: AppID 291190 "Heroes of Steel RPG", ProcID 2394
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110)


[Cory Trese]

I had a bit of trouble with Virtual Box and 64-bit guest OS.

www.virtualbox.org/ticket/12746

[shallowthought]

Guess I'll try installing something else tomorrow then.
What distro / version / architectures have you tested on?

[anrdaemon]

Try 32-bit guest. May work a little better.

[shallowthought]

Tried again using 32 bit mint. Steam won't launch with 3D acceleration turned on, and HoS won't start with it off. So I gave up and installed it on the host instead.

Seems like fullscreen doesn't work - any idea if this can be fixed?

[fallen]

shallowthought - glad to hear you've got it working on hard host.

How is fullscreen not working? Did you try the toggle in the bottom right corner? Do you have a multi-monitor setup?

[shallowthought]

Single monitor setup, resolution is set to 1920x1080. Regardless of whether i've toggled it to fullscreen or windowed, it starts up windowed.
Using linux mint with cinnamon desktop manager.

Nothing being output to stdout or stderr on startup other than:
Running Steam on linuxmint 17 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically


Edit:
That's not correct, get the following (in spoiler tags to keep it short):

SPOILER: Click to show

Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steamwebhelper)/version(20150123134624)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steamwebhelper)/version(1422020784)
[0214/164003:ERROR:nss_util.cc(1018)] Failed to load NSS libraries.
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steamwebhelper)/version(20150123134624)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steamwebhelper)/version(1422020784)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steamwebhelper)/version(1422020784)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110)
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 70: non-double matrix element
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 70: non-double matrix element
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 78: saw unknown, expected number
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110)
FillInMachineIDInfo took a total of 2 milliseconds
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110)
Generating new string page texture 2: 48x256, total string texture memory is 49.15 KB
Generating new string page texture 3: 256x256, total string texture memory is 311.30 KB
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110)
Adding licenses for the following package(s): 0, 40835, 60574, 60859, 60860, 60861
roaming config store loaded successfully - 245 bytes.
migrating temporary roaming config store
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110)
Failed to init SteamVR because it isn't installed
ExecCommandLine: ""/home/steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam" "steam://rungameid/291190" "
ExecSteamURL: "steam://rungameid/291190"
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110)
System startup time: 4.60 seconds
Running Steam on linuxmint 17 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME has been set by the user to: /home/steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime
ExecCommandLine: "/home/steam/.steam/root/ubuntu12_32/steam steam://open/driverhelperready"
ExecSteamURL: "steam://open/driverhelperready"
Game update: AppID 291190 "Heroes of Steel RPG", ProcID 13420, IP 0.0.0.0:0
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
Generating new string page texture 67: 64x256, total string texture memory is 376.83 KB
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 291190
Steam_SetMinidumpSteamID: Caching Steam ID: 76561198211428580 [API loaded no]
cocos2d-x debug info [Ready for GLSL]
cocos2d-x debug info [Ready for OpenGL 2.0]
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(gameoverlayui)/version(20150123134645)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(gameoverlayui)/version(1.0)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(gameoverlayui)/version(1.0)
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 70: non-double matrix element
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 70: non-double matrix element
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 78: saw unknown, expected number
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(gameoverlayui)/version(1.0)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1422054110)
[0214/164014:ERROR:renderer_main.cc(227)] Running without renderer sandbox
Generating new string page texture 75: 512x256, total string texture memory is 901.12 KB
Generating new string page texture 76: 128x256, total string texture memory is 1.03 MB
Generating new string page texture 77: 256x256, total string texture memory is 262.14 KB
Generating new string page texture 78: 8x256, total string texture memory is 1.04 MB
Generating new string page texture 79: 32x256, total string texture memory is 1.07 MB
[0214/164015:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(617)] No URLRequestContext for NSS HTTP handler. host: ocsp.digicert.com
[0214/164015:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(617)] No URLRequestContext for NSS HTTP handler. host: ocsp.digicert.com
[0214/164015:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(617)] No URLRequestContext for NSS HTTP handler. host: crl4.digicert.com
[0214/164015:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(617)] No URLRequestContext for NSS HTTP handler. host: crl3.digicert.com
[0214/164015:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(617)] No URLRequestContext for NSS HTTP handler. host: ocsp.digicert.com
[0214/164015:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(617)] No URLRequestContext for NSS HTTP handler. host: ocsp.digicert.com
[0214/164015:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(617)] No URLRequestContext for NSS HTTP handler. host: crl4.digicert.com
[0214/164015:ERROR:nss_ocsp.cc(617)] No URLRequestContext for NSS HTTP handler. host: crl3.digicert.com
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 70: non-double matrix element
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 70: non-double matrix element
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 78: saw unknown, expected number

[fallen]

shallowthought - can you try adding a launch argument "fullscreen" via Steam's right click > Properties > Set Launch Argument?

[shallowthought]

So the desktop shortcut I have runs the command "steam steam://rungameid/291190". Tried adding " fullscreen" and "--fullscreen" but no change, still in windowed mode.

Ignore that, ran the executable itself and its working now.

Thanks guys!

[fallen]

shallowthought - thanks for the work to figure it out, and the confirmation.

Thanks for your support and we really hope you'll leave us a review too!

[shallowthought]

Thaks again, just played through to oaksahold with more pixels than ever before. Looks like I might have to get an actual graphics card though, the onboard intel graphics thingy is running just a bit slowly.

Will be leaving a review for you tomorrow at some point.

[fallen]

Thank you! +1