So I have tried to play Planetary Annihilation on two different computers, both of which have Ubuntu 14.04 (AMD64) with the AMD Catalyst 14.6 (14.20.7) driver. Idomeneus has an AMD FX-6300 CPU and an AMD Radeon R7 265 GPU. Diomedes has AMD FX-8320 CPU and AMD Radeon R9 280X GPU. I first installed the game on Idomeneus through Steam and it loaded the menu screen fine. I edited the graphics settings (to bump everything up). After editing them, I got a blank screen, which I wasn't able to ALT - TAB or CTRL - ALT - F1 out of, so had to do a hardware reset. I then tried installing the game from scratch on Diomedes through Steam, and it went straight to the blank screen after a little delay and partially rendering an intro logo. (Does it get the configuration from a server rather than let you make configuration changes per machine?). I tried deleting the local files and deleting the Uber Entertainment folder in /local on Diomedes, and reinstalling the game with the same result. The game used to run on Diomedes on Ubuntu 12.04 (AMD64) with the AMD Catalyst 14.4 driver, but I had to use "--software-ui" in Steam properties and I think I also needed to press Control P. The game was unstable though, and used to crash randomly during play, hard locking the machine as described above. Here's a log file I found for Diomedes: [15:38:50.444] INFO Log file /home/name/.local/Uber Entertainment/Planetary Annihilation/log/PA-15-38-50.444.txt opened [15:38:50.468] INFO Looks like we are running via Steam [15:38:50.476] INFO Loading mod : server_browser_show_cheat_servers [15:38:50.476] INFO LoadedLocalModCollection::loadLocalModCollection: Failed listDir call for "/home/name/.local/Uber Entertainment/Planetary Annihilation/mods"; no mods will be loaded from this path [15:38:50.476] WARN LoadedLocalModCollection::loadLocalModCollection: Could not open /home/name/.local/Uber Entertainment/Planetary Annihilation/mods/mods.json file; mods will not be mounted [15:38:50.476] INFO Client loaded 1 mods, mounted 0 [15:38:50.490] INFO Loading mod : cheat_allow_change_control [15:38:50.501] INFO Loading mod : cheat_allow_change_vision [15:38:50.521] INFO Loading mod : cheat_allow_mod_data_updates [15:38:50.547] INFO Loading mod : cheat_allow_create_unit [15:38:50.547] INFO LoadedLocalModCollection::loadLocalModCollection: Failed listDir call for "/home/name/.local/Uber Entertainment/Planetary Annihilation/server_mods"; no mods will be loaded from this path [15:38:50.547] WARN LoadedLocalModCollection::loadLocalModCollection: Could not open /home/name/.local/Uber Entertainment/Planetary Annihilation/server_mods/mods.json file; mods will not be mounted [15:38:50.547] INFO Starting async parallel for driver with 6 threads [15:38:50.895] INFO Successfully created context with configuration 1/8: v4.4 (core) [15:38:50.896] INFO HAL initializing... [15:38:50.896] INFO OpenGL Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc. [15:38:50.896] INFO OpenGL Renderer: AMD Radeon R9 200 Series [15:38:50.896] INFO OpenGL Version: 4.4.12967 Core Profile Context 14.20 [15:38:50.896] INFO OpenGL Shader Language Version: 4.40 [15:38:50.899] INFO Vendor flag set to AMD/ATI [15:38:50.899] INFO Gamma correct pipeline enabled. [15:38:50.899] INFO Ranged mapping enabled. [15:38:50.899] INFO Advanced instancing enabled. [15:38:50.899] INFO Advanced shader models enabled. [15:38:50.899] INFO Compute shaders enabled. [15:38:50.899] INFO Persistent buffer mapping disabled. [15:38:50.899] INFO Buffer textures enabled. [15:38:50.899] INFO initial size 1280x720 [15:38:50.975] INFO Loading effects from file /shaders/post.json [15:38:51.489] INFO Loading effects from file /shaders/content.json [15:38:52.769] INFO Loading effects from file /shaders/impostors.json [15:38:52.883] INFO Loading effects from file /shaders/misc.json [15:38:53.062] INFO Loading effects from file /shaders/particle.json [15:38:54.091] INFO Loading effects from file /shaders/scene.json [15:38:54.424] INFO Loading effects from file /shaders/vtex.json [15:38:54.991] INFO Coherent content root: "coui://ui/" [15:38:54.992] INFO Coherent host dir: "/home/name/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Planetary Annihilation/host" [15:38:54.992] INFO Coherent local store: "/home/name/.local/Uber Entertainment/Planetary Annihilation/localstore" [15:38:55.713] INFO ClientInterface constructed [15:38:56.314] INFO {{FMOD}} fmod buffer size 5 [15:38:56.457] INFO ClientInterface constructed [15:39:07.178] INFO SystemReady [15:39:07.178] INFO loadUrl ForceSoftwareRendering : 0 [15:39:07.179] INFO loadUrl ForceSoftwareRendering : 0 [15:39:07.179] INFO loadUrl ForceSoftwareRendering : 0 [15:39:07.183] INFO loadUrl ForceSoftwareRendering : 0 [15:39:09.912] INFO loadUrl ForceSoftwareRendering : 0 [15:39:09.931] INFO loadUrl ForceSoftwareRendering : 0 [15:39:11.956] INFO resetGameState [15:39:11.956] INFO Mouse constraint cleared. [15:39:11.956] INFO ClientInterface constructed [15:39:11.956] INFO setMusic /Music/Main_Menu_Music [15:39:12.068] INFO ClientInterface constructed [15:39:15.630] INFO Setting option graphics to 'custom' [15:39:15.630] INFO Setting option graphics.vte to 'high' [15:39:15.630] INFO Setting option graphics.headlights to 'uber' [15:39:15.630] INFO Setting option graphics.shadows to 'uber' [15:39:15.630] INFO Setting option graphics.ao to 'on' [15:39:15.630] INFO Setting option graphics.hdr to 'on' [15:39:15.631] INFO Setting option graphics.aa to 'off' [15:39:15.631] INFO Setting option graphics.display_mode to 'fullscreen' [15:39:15.631] INFO Setting camera mouse pan speed to 1x [15:39:15.631] INFO Setting camera key pan speed to 1x [15:39:15.631] INFO Setting camera zoom speed to 2x [15:39:15.631] INFO Setting camera friction to 2.5x [15:39:15.631] INFO Setting camera edge scroll to off (no mouselock) [15:39:15.631] INFO Setting planet pole lock to off [15:39:15.631] INFO parseSettings({"always_show_orbital_shell":false,"never_show_build_previews":false,"always_show_sicons":false,"never_show_sicons":false,"always_show_stat_bars":false,"never_show_stat_bars":false,"always_show_focus_paths":false,"never_show_orbital_shell":false,"sicon_display_distance_scale":1,"always_show_build_previews":false,"never_show_focus_paths":false,"show_metal_icons":true,"show_focus_paths_if_selected":true}) [15:39:16.848] INFO resetGameState [15:39:16.849] INFO Mouse constraint cleared. [15:39:16.849] INFO ClientInterface constructed [15:39:16.849] INFO setMusic /Music/Main_Menu_Music_return_from_game [15:39:16.988] INFO ClientInterface constructed
