"New Game" and "Load Game" options are greyed out on aarch64

[benthetechguy]

I'm running Manjaro ARM on a Pinebook Pro and Raspberry Pi 4. Compiled on both systems, copied the valve directory from a steam installation, and it doesn't launch. I see a window titled "Half-Life" open for a split second then close. No output in the terminal. I tried compiling for both 32 and 64 bit ARM and they have the same issue.

[Velaron]

But did you also compile and install this https://github.com/FWGS/hlsdk-xash3d

[benthetechguy]

Now I have compiled it and it launches. Only there's a new problem: The options to start playing are greyed out and there's white boxes against various things like the FPS counter.

[Velaron]

https://github.com/FWGS/xash-extras/releases

[benthetechguy]

Nope, still greyed out.

[benthetechguy]

I've used the multiplayer option to test the actual playing of the game, and it works just fine, so the issue isn't that.

[Velaron]

it fixes the missing graphics, not sure about other problem, maybe try removing or fixing gameinfo.txt? probably paths to .so files are broken as aarch64 libraries are named differently iirc

[benthetechguy]

Yes, The gameinfo.txt contained gamedll_linux "dlls/hl_i386.so" and I changed it to gamedll_linux "dlls/hl_arm64.so" (which exists in the dll folders I checked) and the issue persists.

Also I thought it might be the fact that aarch64 development is "in progress" so it might just not be enabled, but I tested on 32 bit arm which is seen as fully supported, and it has the same issue. (The extra.pak fixed the white boxes btw)

[Velaron]

is type set to "Single" inside gameinfo? it should work fine, probably some bug or caveat i don't know about yet

[benthetechguy]

Yes. Here's the whole file if anything else would be of use:

// generated by Xash3D FWGS 0.20-4f31d75 (linux-arm64)

basedir         "valve"
gamedir         "valve"
title           "Half-Life"
startmap                "c0a0"
trainmap                "t0a0"
version         1
type            "Single"
dllpath         "cl_dlls"
gamedll         "dlls/hl.dll"
gamedll_linux           "dlls/hl_arm64.so"
gamedll_osx             "dlls/hl.dylib"
icon            "game.ico"
sp_entity               "info_player_start"
mp_entity               "info_player_deathmatch"
secure          "1"
max_edicts      900
max_tempents    500
max_beams               128
max_particles   4096

[Velaron]

i'm out of ideas, you could try editing liblist.gam too, if that doesn't work then somebody else has to help :/

[benthetechguy]

Didn't work :( Thanks for all your help!

[a1batross]

Run engine with -dev 2 -log and post engine.log here.

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Didn't work :( Thanks for all your help!

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[Idiot64]

same here:

:c

[Velaron]

You forgot to send the engine.log file, it probably contains a hint to what happened

[Velaron]

Oh wait, you are a different person, sorry. But do the same anyway.

[Idiot64]

alright, cant even create a local game

but here you go: https://gist.github.com/Idiot64/5673c58bb0492fb8fafa941dfb68f8e7

seems like it cant find gamestartup and some ohter things

[Idiot64]

oh gamestartup is just music

[Velaron]

oh gamestartup is just music

did you apply the changes to gameinfo.txt? it tries to load hl_i386.so which you clearly dont have

[Idiot64]

ye, i'll try, what exactly do i have to do?

[Idiot64]

wut

[Velaron]

wut

You built the hlsdk-xash3d project and installed the libraries after?

[Idiot64]

uhh, yes i think

i got it from the aur, so if the dependencies are right, i should have everything

[Idiot64]

wanna know the solution to this horror?

click change game

and choose the one with 'single'

[a1batross]

@Idiot64 @benthetechguy that's not a solution!

We need to know an exact reason that causes this problem.

Do you use RoDir?

[Idiot64]

rodir?

[Idiot64]

it couldn't find something, now it loaded something else where that was or so

[Idiot64]

oh, i had multiple "vavles" with different names and the steam version was the one with "single"

[Idiot64]

ALRIGHT DOODS vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv

gamedll_linux "dlls/hl.so"

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

i hope this works for you guys

[a1batross]

ALRIGHT DOODS vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv

gamedll_linux "dlls/hl.so"

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

i hope this works for you guys

yeah, you should never touch this parameter in gameinfo.txt. Engine appends architecture suffix automatically.

[Idiot64]

it wasnt 'hl.so' by default

[a1batross]

It is hl.so in Steam version. If you downloaded something else, then it's not our problem.

[xstrex]

I'm not sure who to report this to, figured I'd start here, since it's relevant. Recently got a RG351M, tossed ArkOS on it, and installed Half-Life per these instructions. Ran into the same problem as above.

In the Half-Life folder for ArkOS, they supply a file Copy Contents into valve folder.zip, which contains, among other things, a hl_arm64.so. If I leave the stock gameinfo.txt alone, the new game options are greyed out, just as before. But if I change this line, to use the new library, it works like a charm. gamedll_linux "dlls/hl_arm64.so".

I believe somewhere I read that the engine would append the architecture to the hl.so, that doesn't happen as one might expect. I still had to edit the gameinfo.txt to make it work.

If I need to bring this up to the ArkOS folks, I'll open an PR with them; just wanted to start here.

[a1batross]

@xstrex how old build is? We're not releasing anything at this moment, it may be better to compile latest engine from master branch.

[xstrex]

Couldn't tell ya, it came with the latest arkOS release

[a1batross]

Just screenshot main menu, in the right bottom corner there is all info about build.

вт, 21 дек. 2021 г., 21:14 xstrex @.***>:

Couldn't tell ya, it came with the latest arkOS https://github.com/christianhaitian/arkos/releases/tag/v2.0.11.09.2021 release

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[xstrex]

v48/0.19.3 build 2092 725fd84b Linux-aarch64

[a1batross]

Oh it's not even this tree, but so called "Old Engine" which we stopped developing a few years ago.

They either can switch to this fork, either fix gameinfo.txt because it didn't had autodetection back then.

[xstrex]

I'll open an issue with them, thanks for the help.