[Linux] Game has trouble with locales that use different decimal separator.
DerRidda
Join Date: 2012-08-03 Member: 154647Members
Join Date: 2012-08-03 Member: 154647Members
Whenever I try to start training or play a bot match the map won't load any further than a black screen with an orange cursor and my options are limited to Alt+F4 at that point.
I checked out the log and found that the team select Lua function was having trouble with nil values. Turns out the game doesn't ignore the culture/locale on the system it is running on and thus,
in the case of German locale, ends up with , as a decimal separator instead of . in some values like "dt = 0,025819681584835" for example.
Starting Steam with "LANG=en_US steam" made the game playable.
This is a very common issue I have seen with many fresh Linux ports, even Valve did it when they first ported their old GoldSrc games to Linux.
I checked out the log and found that the team select Lua function was having trouble with nil values. Turns out the game doesn't ignore the culture/locale on the system it is running on and thus,
in the case of German locale, ends up with , as a decimal separator instead of . in some values like "dt = 0,025819681584835" for example.
Starting Steam with "LANG=en_US steam" made the game playable.
This is a very common issue I have seen with many fresh Linux ports, even Valve did it when they first ported their old GoldSrc games to Linux.
Comments
Haven't tried the fix yet but if some have issues with DerRidda's solution, I guess it would work with the env var LC_ALL=C (rather than LANG=en_US).
Obraxis: do you plan to release a patch quickly?