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TC 6 Mar, 2022 @ 5:43pm
Crashing when playing trough STEAM
I was playing normaly for some time. Yesterday, the game started crashing when the map opens. It shows the map and crash. The weird thing is that it works when I open the game trough the game executable file.
I'm using Linux Mint. I created a "steam_appid.txt" file with the game ID inside game's folder, and execute the game through terminal. It doesn't crash. But I don't think the cloud save works.

My specs:
OS: Linux Mint 20.2
KERNEL: 5.13.0-27-generic
CPU: Intel Core i7-7700HQ @ 2.80GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060
GPU DRIVER: NVIDIA 510.47.03
RAM: 32 GB
It's a notebook with hybrid graphics, but I set nvidia as main, since I use a monitor.
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Thineboot 6 Mar, 2022 @ 8:06pm 
... good idea, now head over to the Bugreport-subforum, check out the stick thread and send the devs what they need to help you :)
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Rover 7 Mar, 2022 @ 1:26am 
Same here:

Linux 5.13.0-30-generic x86_64
NVIDIA-SMI 470.103.01
Steam package versions: 1646446125

I haven't played since early Jan 2022. It downloaded a Railway Empire update just now. The opening menu start fine, but when trying to enter the game, either by restoring a save, or starting a new scenario... instant crash.

Where do the log files get written to?
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Thineboot 7 Mar, 2022 @ 5:37am 
... again, it's all there, just check out the sticky thread...
#3
daan_hugo  [developer] 8 Mar, 2022 @ 3:51am 
Hi!

Thanks for your report!

Please send an email to support[at]kalypsomedia.com and explain your issue as detailed as possible.

Best regards,
Daan
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Mitsukuni 8 Mar, 2022 @ 7:46pm 
I'm also having the same problem. I was playing the game a couple days ago, now the game crashes before reaching main menu.

KERNEL: 5.16.12-arch1-1
CPU: Intel Core i5-9400F @ 2.90GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
GPU DRIVER: NVIDIA 510.54
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Eddi 15 Mar, 2022 @ 9:12am 
I'm also having a startup problem on linux. i used to be able to play this game some months ago.

backtrace:
Thread 41 "RailwayEmpire" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 0x7fff60011700 (LWP 9481)] 0x00007ffff73f6262 in ?? () from libfmodex64-4.44.42.so (gdb) bt #0 0x00007ffff73f6262 in ?? () from libfmodex64-4.44.42.so #1 0x00007ffff73f74a4 in ?? () from libfmodex64-4.44.42.so #2 0x00007ffff73f7ac9 in ?? () from libfmodex64-4.44.42.so #3 0x00007ffff73f3239 in ?? () from libfmodex64-4.44.42.so #4 0x00007ffff73f4147 in ?? () from libfmodex64-4.44.42.so #5 0x00007ffff73f46a6 in ?? () from libfmodex64-4.44.42.so #6 0x00007ffff734e60b in ?? () from libfmodex64-4.44.42.so #7 0x00007ffff73ae632 in ?? () from libfmodex64-4.44.42.so #8 0x00007ffff7355cca in ?? () from libfmodex64-4.44.42.so #9 0x00007ffff73ae684 in ?? () from libfmodex64-4.44.42.so #10 0x00007ffff733b71e in ?? () from libfmodex64-4.44.42.so #11 0x00007ffff733c2e6 in ?? () from libfmodex64-4.44.42.so #12 0x00007ffff733891f in ?? () from libfmodex64-4.44.42.so #13 0x00007ffff7338aff in ?? () from libfmodex64-4.44.42.so #14 0x00007ffff73437b3 in FMOD::SystemI::createSoundInternal(char const*, unsigned int, unsigned int, unsigned int, FMOD_CREATESOUNDEXINFO*, FMOD::File**, bool, FMOD::SoundI**) () from libfmodex64-4.44.42.so #15 0x00007ffff70c7af0 in ?? () from libfmodevent64-4.44.42.so #16 0x00007ffff70c8a10 in ?? () from libfmodevent64-4.44.42.so #17 0x00007ffff7317006 in ?? () from libfmodex64-4.44.42.so #18 0x00007ffff73bbc0c in ?? () from libfmodex64-4.44.42.so #19 0x00007ffff58066ea in start_thread () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0 #20 0x00007ffff551ea8f in clone () from /lib64/libc.so.6

this happens after the intro plays, before the main menu shows
Last edited by Eddi; 15 Mar, 2022 @ 9:13am
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Antilope 20 Mar, 2022 @ 9:01pm 
Originally posted by TC:
I was playing normaly for some time. Yesterday, the game started crashing when the map opens. It shows the map and crash. The weird thing is that it works when I open the game trough the game executable file.
I'm using Linux Mint. I created a "steam_appid.txt" file with the game ID inside game's folder, and execute the game through terminal. It doesn't crash. But I don't think the cloud save works.

My specs:
OS: Linux Mint 20.2
KERNEL: 5.13.0-27-generic
CPU: Intel Core i7-7700HQ @ 2.80GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060
GPU DRIVER: NVIDIA 510.47.03
RAM: 32 GB
It's a notebook with hybrid graphics, but I set nvidia as main, since I use a monitor.

Hi,
How do you get the correct appID?
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TC 25 Mar, 2022 @ 10:22am 
Originally posted by Antilope:
Originally posted by TC:
I was playing normaly for some time. Yesterday, the game started crashing when the map opens. It shows the map and crash. The weird thing is that it works when I open the game trough the game executable file.
I'm using Linux Mint. I created a "steam_appid.txt" file with the game ID inside game's folder, and execute the game through terminal. It doesn't crash. But I don't think the cloud save works.

My specs:
OS: Linux Mint 20.2
KERNEL: 5.13.0-27-generic
CPU: Intel Core i7-7700HQ @ 2.80GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060
GPU DRIVER: NVIDIA 510.47.03
RAM: 32 GB
It's a notebook with hybrid graphics, but I set nvidia as main, since I use a monitor.

Hi,
How do you get the correct appID?

You can get it in the game link:

....steampowered.com/app/503940/Railway_Empire/

its 503940
Last edited by TC; 25 Mar, 2022 @ 10:22am
#8
Rover 12 Apr, 2022 @ 1:26am 
Apparently the is an answer in "the sticky thread". I confess I think I found that answer before and concluded the solution was way too complicated for me to bother at the time.

Now I'm wondering what sticky thread and where. The sticky at the top here is many, many pages long. What am I expected to do to make this run again? Help? Thx.
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Rover 12 Apr, 2022 @ 1:49am 
Ok. Fine. I might have worked it out...

1) Find the installation files for the game. It will depend on where your steam library lives. Mine was at:

/media/rover/Games/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Railway\ Empire

But yours will certainly be different. I'm not sure how you find it. I just knew that /media/rover was a good place to start looking because I have all my steam games on a dedicated mounted ssd.

2) Create a file in that directory called "steam_appid.txt" (eg `touch steam_appid.txt`)

3) Put the number "503940" into the file (eg: `echo "503940" > steam_appid.txt`)

4) Run the game from the command line: `./RailwayEmpire`

5) Play the game and quit

6) Kill the game manually via CTRL-Z


I'd like to say that, as a dedicated fan, how unvalued I feel to have to work this out for myself and put up with it for ongoing perpetuity. Knee-jerk post. Not sure if it will save and if other quirks will popup yet.
Last edited by Rover; 12 Apr, 2022 @ 1:53am
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Rover 12 Apr, 2022 @ 3:38am 
Actually CTRL-Z will just suspend the game. CTRL-C doesn't kill it. So after CTRL-Z suspends it, I have to `ps` for the process id and `kill -9` it.

Such a nice user experience.
#11
Rover 2 Jul, 2022 @ 11:21pm 
YYYYAAAAAAYYYYY!!!

It's working again.
Could be the recent patch update.
Could be my migration to ubuntu 22.04.
Could be steam.
Whichever.

I'm happy its working again (without all that scripting and phaffing around).

A hearty thanks to whoever deserves it.
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