Bastion shows no graphics

[YongQing]

Hi all

I installed Bastion using Ubuntu Software Centre. I'm running Xubuntu 12.04.

When I run Bastion, after the WB & developer logos appear, I get a black blank screen with just the music. I can see the cursor and move it. If I move the cursor over where the menu buttons are supposed to be, I can hear the distinct "click" sounds.

Anyone know what is wrong?

[Mike_IronFist]

Hi all

I installed Bastion using Ubuntu Software Centre. I'm running Xubuntu 12.04.

When I run Bastion, after the WB & developer logos appear, I get a black blank screen with just the music. I can see the cursor and move it. If I move the cursor over where the menu buttons are supposed to be, I can hear the distinct "click" sounds.

Anyone know what is wrong?

Bastion and Psychonauts both have this problem - they use S3tc textures and for some reason Intel graphics cards don't use these automatically on Linux.

The fix is not very hard though.

Open a terminal enter the following:

gksudo echo "force_s3tc_enable=true /opt/Bastion/Bastion.bin.x86_64" > /opt/Bastion/Bastion.sh
gksudo chmod a+x /opt/Bastion/Bastion.sh

Then, once that's done, you need to fix the menu launcher to use Bastion.sh.

In the terminal, enter the following:

gksudo gedit /usr/share/applications/Bastion.desktop

(This will use gedit to open Bastion.desktop. In Xubuntu, replace gedit with mousepad.)

In that file, change Bastion.bin.x86_64 to Bastion.sh Save the file and close and you're done. Bastion should load up with no black screen.

[ubusou]

I had same problem with this game (Ubuntu 12.04, Ati 6450).
This work's for me.

sudo apt-get install libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0

[BantamD5]

Ubusou this works! (but no sound...) awesome. any ideas why the sound is missing now?...

[tg0bar]

Mike_IronFist way worked for me like a charm (ubuntu 12.04 amd64 with Intel card). However my Bastion files were not installed in /opt but in /usr/local/games so I had to change the commands to reflect that.

[electragician]

I had same problem with this game (Ubuntu 12.04, Ati 6450).
This work's for me.

sudo apt-get install libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0

This also worked for me on Xubuntu 12.04 32bit. No other tweaks necessary and sound still worked fine.

[amedrano]

This worked for me.

[Lord Burghley]

I had same problem with this game (Ubuntu 12.04, Ati 6450).
This work's for me.

sudo apt-get install libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0

Worked like a charm for me. (Ubuntu 12.04, Mobile Intel HD chipset). Thanks!!

[Mr.Gosh]

Perfekt - That worked for me too (Intel Core i7 Graphics 3000).

Why is this dependancy missing on the packages and how did you come to the idea that this is the right package?

[Ryanl93]

Hi Guys

I tried to follow mike_iron_fists instructions. I noticed that in the instruction it says for xubuntu. I am running Ubuntu 12.04 and when i run the first entry for terminal, it says that the directory doesn't exist.

I then tried to change the directory part of his suggested entry to this :
gksudo echo "force_s3tc_enable=true /opt/Bastion/Bastion.bin.x86_64" > /usr/share/applications/Bastion.sh

When i enter this its says "Bash: bash: /usr/share/applications/Bastion.sh: Permission denied"

What am i doing wrong ?