I’ve bought the BLM bundle (oh my, it’s like ten christmasses. Deep joy.) But I’m noticing a problem with quite a few of the Unity games – missing assets.
I’m running Debian Stretch. That’s not quite a year old, now. Could that be why – my libraries are out of date? Can any other Linux-people here tell me what is going on?
In Lingotopia, for example, the buttons are all black, and the background and all the characters render as entirely black too.
Ah... there must be some confusion. The latest Debian as of a year ago is version 10, "Buster". Version 9 is... rather older than that. There could easily be a problem with your OpenGL driver, unless it's from the hardware and not the operating system. Unity games are known to require the latest and greatest features of OpenGL by default, and few developers know or care to make them work on older machines.
No confusion. Buster was released on 6th July 2019 – not quite a year ago, as I said.
I’m guessing that you are right about that being the cause of the problem. Does anyone here have any specific experience and know for sure?
Unfortunately I use my computer for a lot of things, not just games, so I can’t always upgrade right away. Less than a year is hardly an “older machine”, at least outside of gaming circles…
What I meant by that is, the software versions in Debian 9 were frozen in 2014 when it was first released. Your software is now 6 years old. It continued to receive bug fixes and security patches, but it didn't get any newer in all this time.
And yes, it's a shitty thing that so much software always expects all of us to have the latest and greatest the instant it's released. My pet peeve is Python apps starting to require version 3.8 as a minimum literally hours after it hit the official download mirrors. That sucks.
Unfortunately I don't have specific experience with Debian 9, but most Unity games wouldn't run for me even on a more up-to-date Linux. Some at least had the decency to say it was due to expecting a GPU with OpenGL 3.0 features; most would just crash. Sadly, I doubt this can be fixed easily or at all. Sorry.
Well – assuming we are both right – the good news is, once I can upgrade, the games will start working.
Out of the 30 or so games I’ve so far downloaded from the bundle only five or six have the issue. It’s not the end of the world.
Although it makes me less inclined to try Unity myself in future. Think I’ll stick to Love or maybe Godot.
