Post by DeeJayHUN in If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers comments

If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers » Comments

Viewing post in If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers comments

If anybody else having a problem under Linux because of the engine not finding game data, and you have Unicode characters in the path, move the game to a path with only ANSI characters.

Nice game!!!

Laura Hunt3 years ago

Thanks for the tip! Nobody has reported having this issue so far, but it's great to know in case it happens to someone, much appreciated!

savetier3 years ago(-1)

Also here the Linux version didn't work, played the Windows version via Wine on Ubuntu (which ran smoothly out of the box).

Laura Hunt3 years ago

What was the issue exactly, did it simply not run, or did it crash at some point? Did you get any error message that could help pinpoint the problem?

savetier3 years ago

The terminal shows me an error in room15.asc, line 60. Maybe a " missing or something, AGS can be quite picky ;-)

Laura Hunt3 years ago (1 edit)

Oh, that looks like you might have the sound turned off in your settings or it failed to initialize for some reason and the game crashed because of a call to an Audiochannel resulting in a null pointer error. It's weird that it did not complain in Wine though!

savetier3 years ago

Same config file in both versions. I've tried some different parameters but no luck :/

Laura Hunt3 years ago

That's so weird :/ Happy that it works under Wine at least, though.

DeeJayHUN3 years ago(+1)

Ubuntu version 20.10. The console log is: