Tobes
February 25, 2018, 11:25am
1
Hey there. I’ve recently had to move over to ubuntu temporarily on my pc and would still like to play TU. I found out there was a linux beta version of it on steam, so I accepted betas and redownloaded the game with the beta installed. However, when I try to launch the game, it shows the preparing to launch box, but then that goes away and nothing happens.
Wondering if there is anyone who could help me fix this issue, as I’d really like to get back into the game, or whether there is no way.
Hi @Tobes
Unfortunately, our Linux Beta is on hiatus for a while as there were some issues in the Unreal Engine upgrade that made it unplayable.
From: Weekly Dev Log for January 19th, 2018
Linux Client News
@Caboose700 has been looking into issues with the Linux Client. These issues started occurring due to a change that Epic made in Unreal Engine 4.18. Over the course of this week, he fixed the dependency issue that was causing the Linux Client to not boot.
However, he was unsuccessful in his attempts to fix the loading issues. Upon further research, he found that some people were having success with disabling ASync Loading and the Event Driven Loader, two very powerful systems which help Tower Unite load about 2x faster than without them enabled. He tried conducting tests with building version of the Linux Client which had these systems disabled, only to be hit by a roadblock where the game would then segfault.
Unfortunately, the Linux Client is one of the lowest priority portions of our game at this time, and until we are able to get this fixed, the Tower Unite Linux client will be pretty much useless. We can’t give an estimate when we can get around to fixing this issue, but do know that it will be on our list, and should the worse come to pass and it not get resolved beforehand, getting both the Linux Client and the Mac OS X client of Tower Unite up and running will be our top priority after Early Access release. We apologize immensely for this inconvenience to our players on the Linux platform for this downtime.
Tobes
February 25, 2018, 12:24pm
3
Alright. 'Tis a shame but understandable that it’s not a high priority