Current build it's first version of game which use SDL on Linux and this might be related. E.g something probably can be wrong in-game. Anyway somebody else have to find out.
I'm using Kubuntu 13.10 and it works just fine. Also when I still used 13.04 and I tried it on 12.04 too. When you say "the game doesn't even work period..", do you mean that PA crashes instantly. Or do you get a black screen and nothing else? I did have a problem with libudev not being found at some point (Bug FS#2024). Could you post your log and see if there is any mention of libudev or any other errors for that matter? By the way, [RLM] Xefor suggested a fix for the black and white business occurring in Unity. See bug FS#2709.
Well i have already switched, and no just the black screen and those libs are installed but needed. Is there a fix?
Well, that's strange. I also use the Intel HD4000 for my playing needs. I did install the xorg-edgers repository for the latest Mesa drivers though. Could you post your PA log? You can find it in the ~/.local/Uber Entertainment/Planetary Annihilation/log directory.
oh and by that, i ment i switched to kde in kubuntu. not did the fix for it, i wanted to wait to see if a next version fixes it...
New version won't fix anything. If you see black screen it's mean Coherent not working. Check if Coherent running using "ps aux | grep CoherentUI_Host", there should be 8 processes.
libudev.so.1 (libc6,x86-64) => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 libudev.so.1 (libc6) => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1
CoherentUI_Host.bin depends on libudev.so.0 (not libudev.so.1). If you're running PA not from Steam (e.g unpacked tar.bz2) it's only problem. Probably fix in CoherentUI_Host script quite broken at moment.
Hey just wanted to say thanks guys! Sorry I've been such a pain :3 Give me a network anyday, i'm not into video dwellings, so all this is fairly new to me.