I just bought the linux version, thank you for making it, and I can play the game great and everything but I can't see the text.  I just get black or white boxes where the text would be.  I have a Via vn700 chipset on my laptop, which my be the problem.  Any suggestions on what I can look at to get the text?

Thank you.

What linux distro are you using? On Ubuntu, try running 'metacity --replace' in a terminal, and then starting the game.

Yeah, and for future posts: the first thing to try for any sort of graphic problems, would be disable compositing window managers and any "desktop effects" that you may have enabled. These often don't work well with OpenGL applications such as World of Goo.

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Yeah, and for future posts: the first thing to try for any sort of graphic problems, would be disable compositing window managers and any "desktop effects" that you may have enabled. These often don't work well with OpenGL applications such as World of Goo.


My chipset doesn't support composting on my laptop.

@Windsurfer - that did not help.

Thanks, I am guessing that it is probably because OpenGL support on my chipset is kinda weak.

Here are some screen shots of the problem.  I guess it is more than just text that is missing.  I am not sure if this is something I can fix or it is a problem with my video card.

I had the same problems with my Ati Radeon card.
Try setting the 'color depth' in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file from 24 to 16. This helped me out.

Hi all,

I just purchased a second copy of WoG for my living-room PC (pictures, music, games for my daughter).

I am seeing exactly the same issue on a VIA mini-ITX MB with a CX700 chipset, even with a color-depth of 16.

[li]System is running fairly basic 32-bit Ubuntu 9.04 install.[/li]
[li]Compiz is disabled (so no composite effects on the desktop).[/li]
[li]Using the OpenChrome X driver that is installed with Ubuntu.[/li]
[li]Other Open-GL games such as TuxRacer and SuperTuxKart run fine (albiet with a slow frame rate).[/li]

I can't promise I'll be able to find a good solution for this, but could you post the output of "glxinfo" and the contents of the log file at $HOME/.WorldOfGoo/WorldOfGoo.log?

Thanks,

Here's the output from glxinfo:

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And here is the logfile:
<br />[t=0.00] Loading persistent data...<br />[t=0.00] Locale en_US.UTF-8 matched to language en.<br />[t=0.00] Primary language: en<br />[t=0.00] Created 800x600 (16 bpp) graphics surface.<br />[t=0.00] Created virtual viewport of size 800(+0)x600(+0)<br />[t=0.00] Using audio driver: pulse<br />[t=0.00] resized from 800x600 to 800x600<br />[t=0.00] loading game (version 1.40linux)...<br />[t=1.19] could not load image "res/images/flags/xx"<br />[t=5.00] fps=49.8 ups=50.0<br />[t=8.05] Game paused...<br />[t=8.05] FileOpen("res/levels/MapWorldView/newmail.anim.binltl", 17, 0xaa7fbf54) failed!<br />[t=8.05] FileOpen("res/levels/MapWorldView/MapWorldView/rot_1rps.anim.binltl", 17, 0xaa7fbf54) failed!<br />[t=8.05] Game resumed after 2.364 seconds<br />[t=10.00] fps=50.0 ups=50.0<br />[t=13.78] loading game complete.<br />[t=13.78] FileOpen("res/levels/IslandUi/newmail.anim.binltl", 17, 0xbfc681a4) failed!<br />[t=13.84] STATE TRANSITION: INIT --> WORLD (after 14 sec)<br />[t=15.02] fps=46.6 ups=49.8<br />[t=20.03] fps=32.4 ups=49.9<br />[t=23.22] STATE TRANSITION: WORLD --> LOADING (after 9 sec)<br />[t=23.22] Game paused...<br />[t=23.22] warning: duplicate ids in scene file (gooWaterRight)<br />[t=23.22] FileOpen("res/levels/island1/island1/ocdFlagWave.anim.binltl", 17, 0xbfc67f84) failed!<br />[t=23.22] FileOpen("res/levels/island1/levelpipe_OdeToBridgeBuilder.anim.binltl", 17, 0xbfc67f84) failed!<br />[t=23.22] FileOpen("res/levels/island1/levelpipe_ImpaleSticky.anim.binltl", 17, 0xbfc67f84) failed!<br />[t=23.22] FileOpen("res/levels/island1/levelpipe_FlyingMachine.anim.binltl", 17, 0xbfc67f84) failed!<br />[t=23.22] FileOpen("res/levels/island1/levelpipe_EconomicDivide.anim.binltl", 17, 0xbfc67f84) failed!<br />[t=23.22] FileOpen("res/levels/island1/levelpipe_HangLow.anim.binltl", 17, 0xbfc67f84) failed!<br />[t=23.22] FileOpen("res/levels/island1/levelpipe_Tumbler.anim.binltl", 17, 0xbfc67f84) failed!<br />[t=23.22] FileOpen("res/levels/island1/levelpipe_Chain.anim.binltl", 17, 0xbfc67f84) failed!<br />[t=23.22] FileOpen("res/levels/island1/levelpipe_FistyReachesOut.anim.binltl", 17, 0xbfc67f84) failed!<br />[t=23.22] FileOpen("res/levels/island1/levelpipe_TowerOfGoo.anim.binltl", 17, 0xbfc67f84) failed!<br />[t=23.22] FileOpen("res/levels/island1/levelpipe_RegurgitationPumpingStation.anim.binltl", 17, 0xbfc67f84) failed!<br />[t=23.22] warning: duplicate ids in scene file (gooWaterRight)<br />[t=23.22] Game resumed after 1.786 seconds<br />[t=23.22] STATE TRANSITION: LOADING --> ISLAND_MAP (after 0 sec)<br />[t=25.04] fps=38.9 ups=50.3<br />[t=27.50] STATE TRANSITION: ISLAND_MAP --> LOADING (after 4 sec)<br />[t=27.50] Game paused...<br />[t=27.50] Game resumed after 3.370 seconds<br />[t=27.50] STATE TRANSITION: LOADING --> LEVEL (after 0 sec)<br />[t=27.50] playing level 'GoingUp'<br />[t=30.04] fps=49.8 ups=50.0<br />[t=35.04] fps=50.0 ups=50.0<br />[t=40.04] fps=50.0 ups=50.0<br />[t=45.04] fps=49.6 ups=50.0<br />[t=46.00] scale=1.00  xscale=1.00  yscale=1.00  baseZoom=1.00<br />[t=50.04] fps=49.4 ups=50.0<br />[t=53.29] ---> continue button clicked<br />[t=53.29] balls stat: old=10 new=11<br />[t=53.29] moves stat: old=4 new=3<br />[t=53.29] time  stat: old=23 new=22<br />[t=53.29] finished level 'GoingUp': balls=11, moves=3, time=23<br />[t=53.29] Saving persistent data...<br />[t=55.04] fps=48.2 ups=50.0<br />[t=60.04] fps=50.0 ups=50.0<br />[t=65.06] fps=50.0 ups=50.0<br />[t=68.00] STATE TRANSITION: LEVEL --> ISLAND_MAP (after 40 sec)<br />[t=70.08] fps=50.0 ups=50.0<br />[t=74.32] STATE TRANSITION: ISLAND_MAP --> WORLD (after 6 sec)<br />[t=75.10] fps=48.6 ups=49.8<br />[t=76.71] TotalRunningTime = 87 seconds<br />[t=76.71] Saving persistent data...<br />[t=76.71] ----- destroying scene factory: -----<br />[t=76.71] -------------------------------------<br />[t=76.71] ----- destroying movie factory: -----<br />[t=76.71]        releasing movie 'levelinfotransition_main' refcount=1<br />[t=76.71]        releasing movie 'levelFadeOut' refcount=1<br />[t=76.71]        releasing movie 'gooTransition_in' refcount=1<br />[t=76.71]        releasing movie 'signpostDlg_loop' refcount=1<br />[t=76.71]        releasing movie 'gooTransition_out' refcount=1<br />[t=76.71]        releasing movie 'signpostDlg_in' refcount=1<br />[t=76.71]        releasing movie 'gooTransition_loop' refcount=1<br />[t=76.71]        releasing movie 'levelinfotransition_out' refcount=1<br />[t=76.71]        releasing movie 'signpostDlg_flipin' refcount=1<br />[t=76.71]        releasing movie 'signpostDlg_flipout' refcount=1<br />[t=76.71]        releasing movie 'signpostDlg_out' refcount=1<br />[t=76.71]        releasing movie 'signpostDlgIsh_in' refcount=1<br />[t=76.71]        releasing movie 'signpostDlgIsh_loop' refcount=1<br />[t=76.71]        releasing movie 'signpostDlgIsh_flipin' refcount=1<br />[t=76.71]        releasing movie 'signpostDlgIsh_flipout' refcount=1<br />[t=76.71]        releasing movie 'signpostDlgIsh_out' refcount=1<br />[t=76.71]        releasing movie 'eol_1_in' refcount=1<br />[t=76.71]        releasing movie 'levelinfotransition_in' refcount=1<br />[t=76.71]        releasing movie 'eol_2_fillwait' refcount=1<br />[t=76.71]        releasing movie 'eol_2.5_statsin' refcount=1<br />[t=76.71]        releasing movie 'eol_3_handleup' refcount=1<br />[t=76.71]        releasing movie 'eol_4_waitclick' refcount=1<br />[t=76.71]        releasing movie 'eol_5_handlepull' refcount=1<br />[t=76.71]        releasing movie 'eol_6_travel' refcount=1<br />[t=76.71]        releasing movie 'eol_7_islandin' refcount=1<br />[t=76.71]        releasing movie '2dboyLogo' refcount=1<br />[t=76.71]        releasing movie 'MomTextSwap_displayloop' refcount=1<br />[t=76.71]        releasing movie 'MomTextSwap_swap' refcount=1<br />[t=76.71] -------------------------------------<br />[t=76.71] InhibitGnomeScreensaver destructor: killing child process 3519...<br />

Let me know if you need anything further or if you want me to try anything.

Thank you in advance,

Paul Smith

This seems to be a problem in the openchrome video driver. If you disable hardware acceleration with Option "NoAccel" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf WOG works. However it's too slow on my system to be playable. Maybe this workaround might help someone with a faster system than mine, though.