Morrowind on OpenMW via Luxtorpeda is no longer working on Steam Deck

Question

Morrowind on OpenMW via Luxtorpeda is no longer working on Steam Deck

astradamus opened this issue 5 months ago · 4 comments

astradamus commented 5 months ago

Linux Distribution

SteamOS

Luxtorpeda Version

v68.4.0

Bug description

Every presented option (Open MW with/without launcher and with/without shaders) fails to launch, spitting you back out to the steam Morrowind page.

This was perfectly functional for me in the past, but it has been over a year since then, so I can't say exactly when this started.

Steps To Reproduce

Assign Luxtorpeda as compat option for Morrowind. Launch.
Luxtorpeda starts up fine and presents the options for starting OpenMW with/without launcher and with/without shaders.
Every single option fails to launch.

Expected Behavior

I've used this in the past and all the options were functional and the game was playable.

Additional Context

I am on an OLED deck running latest version of SteamOS.

Relevant log output

No response

Answer 1 · 2024-04-27T08:42:13.000Z

I believe Luxtorpeda uses OpenMW 0.45.0?

I manually installed OpenMW 0.48.0 and hooked it to the Morrowind steam app and that works fine. So I'm assuming 0.45.0 is no longer compatible with SteamOS for some reason? 🤔

Answer 2 · 2024-04-27T14:42:55.000Z

Openmw 0.48.0 is used for lux. Where do you see 0.45?

Are you sure you're on the latest version? How did you download lux?

Answer 3 · 2024-04-27T18:24:17.000Z

Okay, figured some things out. I saw 0.45.0 here, but upon closer inspection I'm not even sure how I got to that page as it looks like it might just be some random person's fork.
https://github.com/dreamer/luxtorpeda/?tab=readme-ov-file#supported-titles

I completely deleted my Morrowind folder, installed fresh, and from there OpenMW worked fine via Luxtorpeda. This was the same folder I ran it out of in the past, so there must've been something left over from the previous OpenMW version or something.

I suppose that's still worth knowing about: updates to either OpenMW or Luxtorpeda are breaking the install and require a fresh install? 🤔

Answer 4 · 2024-04-27T18:29:25.000Z

Ah yeah that's the old version of lux, the one you're on (in this issue) is the up-to-date version.

And nice, glad it's working now! Normally these updates shouldn't pose a problem, although if it was old enough (like from the dreamer version), it's possible something went wrong there. IF you find something like this again, feel free to create an issue with some logs so can diagnose it.