I am playing on Garuda Linux for a while now.
Garuda had some big update recently, introducing wayland and (I guess) a lot of other stuff.
I am new to linux and I have no knowledge about OPENGL and game development.
This week i wanted to play PZ again, but it was a terrible experience.
More terrible than intended... -.-
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Issue:
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I have a square box around my character, where trees fade out and other textures are changed, but it should be a circle.
After some reading and trial & error, I figured out, that it was the Lighting Quality setting.
On the lowest setting, the box is gone and nothing fades out.
But that is not really helpful in staying alive...
On the other settings i have the box.
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Version of Project Zomboid:
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Current Steam Release
Game shows: Version 41.78.16 (Steam)
I am using no mods.
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What I have tried:
-------------
I cannot remember everything. I am trying to fix this issue for a few days now.
I changed every setting in the PZ-GUI concerning the graphic.
The only setting changing the box around the character was Lighting Quality.
-> Lowest -> the feature is completly off
-> the others -> ugly square box around the character
I tried running PZ with some proton versions from steam, until the game didn't start anymore most of time,
because it couldn't connect to the steamapi anymore. (SteamAPI_init () failed)
If it could start, with the first or second start option, i still had the rectangular box around my charcter.
While that i uninstalled and intalled the game a few times.
After this I tried a lot of stuff, where I honestly didn't really know what I was doing... -.-
I uninstalled the game and deleted every folder and file I could tie to PZ and I regarded save to delete.
And there were a lot of them after using some of the compatibility mods...
I installed the game again -> still the same issue (square box - no circle).
I tried starting PZ with the .exe, .bat and .sh files from PZ.
If the game started, I still had the issue with the rectangular Lighting-Quality "circle".
I uninstalled the game and deleted every folder and file I could tie to PZ or the PZ-steam-appID.
I even deleted proton-folders containing data tied to PZ because i didn't find a way to delete them via steam.
I installed the game again (native) -> still the same issue (square box - no circle).
Steam-Installation was broken now, because steam couldn't find the compatibility-tools anymore and didn't offer to reinstall them again.
I uninstalled steam (and steam-runtime, steam-native etc) and deleted every file and folder i could tie to steam.
This included all games.
I installed steam again and installed PZ again.
Everything worked fine, but I still had the issue with the rectangular Lighting-Quality "circle".
I switched from wayland to X11 (because i had read, that PZ has problems with wayland).
-> I still had the issue with the rectangular Lighting-Quality "circle".
I did a lot of restarts and system updates between the steps above (most of the time garuda was up-to-date).
I reinstalled some packages like mesa, lib32-mesa, xf86-video-amdgpu and vulkan-radeon.
-> I still had the issue with the rectangular Lighting-Quality "circle".
I have read all logs provided by PZ in hope to see some "cannot load OPENGL-stuff"-error,
but I couldn't find anything that I could recognize as source for the problem.
I uninstalled / deactivated wine, winetricks, proton-ge-custom and protontricks through the "Garuda Gamer" assistant,
but I think these actions didn't really uninstall the software.
I probably did a lot of other stuff. As I said, I am trying to fix this problem for days now.
-------------
What I have not tried (yet):
-------------
The next step for me would be a complete system wipe and installing Garuda again.
For this I have to do some time consuming stuff first, which will take me a while...
Trying to install older drivers for amd.
As I said, I am new to Linux and I don't even know how to install older versions of packages or the packages involved.
This would be a step after a fresh Garuda Installation and still having this problem.
Trying to install the proprietary drivers by AMD.
I have read too many "They are bad"s the last days...
And the game didn't need them before.
And I haven't asked for help.
So... Here I am.
I am in way over my head with this.
If someone could help me or point me in a new direction to look for answers,
I would appreciate that very much.
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Helli
Hello survivors.
I am playing on Garuda Linux for a while now.
Garuda had some big update recently, introducing wayland and (I guess) a lot of other stuff.
I am new to linux and I have no knowledge about OPENGL and game development.
This week i wanted to play PZ again, but it was a terrible experience.
More terrible than intended... -.-
-------------
Issue:
-------------
I have a square box around my character, where trees fade out and other textures are changed, but it should be a circle.
After some reading and trial & error, I figured out, that it was the Lighting Quality setting.
On the lowest setting, the box is gone and nothing fades out.
But that is not really helpful in staying alive...
On the other settings i have the box.
-------------
Operating system:
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Garuda Linux Dragonized
Kernel: 6.8.1-zen1-1-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.2.1 clocksource: tsc
avail: hpet,acpi_pm parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
root=UUID=65838ef9-8262-4588-ab0b-6bae49cc7603 rw rootflags=subvol=@ quiet quiet
rd.udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0 loglevel=3 ibt=off
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.0.2 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.0.0 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 2
dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda base: Arch Linux
-------------
Version of Project Zomboid:
-------------
Current Steam Release
Game shows: Version 41.78.16 (Steam)
I am using no mods.
-------------
What I have tried:
-------------
I cannot remember everything. I am trying to fix this issue for a few days now.
I changed every setting in the PZ-GUI concerning the graphic.
The only setting changing the box around the character was Lighting Quality.
-> Lowest -> the feature is completly off
-> the others -> ugly square box around the character
I tried running PZ with some proton versions from steam, until the game didn't start anymore most of time,
because it couldn't connect to the steamapi anymore. (SteamAPI_init () failed)
If it could start, with the first or second start option, i still had the rectangular box around my charcter.
While that i uninstalled and intalled the game a few times.
After this I tried a lot of stuff, where I honestly didn't really know what I was doing... -.-
I uninstalled the game and deleted every folder and file I could tie to PZ and I regarded save to delete.
And there were a lot of them after using some of the compatibility mods...
I installed the game again -> still the same issue (square box - no circle).
I tried starting PZ with the .exe, .bat and .sh files from PZ.
If the game started, I still had the issue with the rectangular Lighting-Quality "circle".
I uninstalled the game and deleted every folder and file I could tie to PZ or the PZ-steam-appID.
I even deleted proton-folders containing data tied to PZ because i didn't find a way to delete them via steam.
I installed the game again (native) -> still the same issue (square box - no circle).
Steam-Installation was broken now, because steam couldn't find the compatibility-tools anymore and didn't offer to reinstall them again.
I uninstalled steam (and steam-runtime, steam-native etc) and deleted every file and folder i could tie to steam.
This included all games.
I installed steam again and installed PZ again.
Everything worked fine, but I still had the issue with the rectangular Lighting-Quality "circle".
I switched from wayland to X11 (because i had read, that PZ has problems with wayland).
-> I still had the issue with the rectangular Lighting-Quality "circle".
I did a lot of restarts and system updates between the steps above (most of the time garuda was up-to-date).
I reinstalled some packages like mesa, lib32-mesa, xf86-video-amdgpu and vulkan-radeon.
-> I still had the issue with the rectangular Lighting-Quality "circle".
I have read all logs provided by PZ in hope to see some "cannot load OPENGL-stuff"-error,
but I couldn't find anything that I could recognize as source for the problem.
I uninstalled / deactivated wine, winetricks, proton-ge-custom and protontricks through the "Garuda Gamer" assistant,
but I think these actions didn't really uninstall the software.
I probably did a lot of other stuff. As I said, I am trying to fix this problem for days now.
-------------
What I have not tried (yet):
-------------
The next step for me would be a complete system wipe and installing Garuda again.
For this I have to do some time consuming stuff first, which will take me a while...
Trying to install older drivers for amd.
As I said, I am new to Linux and I don't even know how to install older versions of packages or the packages involved.
This would be a step after a fresh Garuda Installation and still having this problem.
Trying to install the proprietary drivers by AMD.
I have read too many "They are bad"s the last days...
And the game didn't need them before.
And I haven't asked for help.
So... Here I am.
I am in way over my head with this.
If someone could help me or point me in a new direction to look for answers,
I would appreciate that very much.
GL & HF,
Helli
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