Broken textures on Steam Deck

[rare adder]

Hi all. I think I've talked about this one or twice before in the last year, I've been having this sporadic issue where all the textures break for seemingly no reason. I'm running Linux on Steam Deck, running the native Linux Steam version of HK. I rarely if ever have this issue in Crossroads, it usually pops up in Fungal Wastes, City, and Greenpath iirc. Not sure about more late-game areas cause when this issue crops up I usually get frustrated and turn the game off lol.
Troubleshooting attempted: Rebooted steam deck, reinstalled HK, uninstalled and reinstalled all mods, tried in both gaming and desktop mode on the steam deck, verified integrity of game files, toggled multiple mods on and off... I've attached the mod log for my most recent game session but this has been ongoing for over a year now (although I haven't played in months) with various different mods installed. I think the only mods I was using both today and when the issue first occurred are Rando4 and its dependencies, DebugMod, and transtrans. I usually have CustomKnight on but I noticed the mod log had a bunch of missing sprite errors so I turned it off and the issue still occurred, so I don't think it was related to that.

Interesting to note is that the UI doesn't appear to be affected at all, but everything else looks messed up. And it appears to be a completely visual bug, I can still walk around and fight enemies and stuff, I just can't see what I'm doing.

Has anyone seen this issue before? What troubleshooting steps can I try that I haven't already?

[past ginkgo]

DwarfWoot

Known problems with Pale Court

• Textures do not work on Unix systems (MacOS / Linux)
  • MacOS should work on the latest update, but may still have some missing textures.
• Spanish breaks one of the bosses
• AdditionalMaps isn't compatible
• EssenceAlways isn't compatible
• Using a BenchWarp Deployed Bench in new areas will break the file
  • If you accidentally do this, then close the game, disable Benchwarp, then open the file again. Get off the bench you spawn at, and sit down again. Then save+quit, and you should be able to enable Benchwarp again.
• HK Vocalized may prevent you from accessing fights
  • (This appears to not be consistently reproducable, but if you can't enter fights, then try disabling it)
• Hollow Point does not work with PAle Court installed
• Extra Menu Backgrounds may prevent your game from loading with Pale Court

If you have have a definitely known other issue, then you can post about it in #1124736181624651816 . If you're not sure if it's a bug, and you're just having an issue, then read #1047656117913800704 and create a #1047056433767796766 post

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[rare adder]

I don't have pale court installed

[stuck canopy]

Ahh, I jumped to a conclusion, sorry about that.

I do have to guesss it's to do with being on Linux tho

[rare adder]

No worries. I considered writing "not pale court" in the title lol

[stuck canopy]

I can't download the modlog right now so it wasn't easy to see installed mods & PC is the usual culprit lately for texxture shenanigans

[rare adder]

Ahh yeah

Does this help?

[stuck canopy]

Do you every have the problem when playing vanilla? My (very basic) understanding of the texture issues is that it's usually added textures but I don't think I see anything in your modlist other than Lost Artifacts that adds anything, and the LA items are only in your inventory

[rare adder]

I didn't try it today but last time I was troubleshooting I disabled the api and didn't have any issues with textures. (I did have issues with it recognizing my controller, but I'm sure that's unrelated.)

[stuck canopy]

I don't see anything just looking at the list that jumps out unfortunately, but hopefully someone who's able to read the modlog will be able to help out

[rare adder]

Alright, thanks anyway 🙂 maybe one day I'll figure this out lol

Iirc last time I was in here someone suggested it could be a gpu hardware issue, but I don't have issues with any other games so I really doubt it

[shrewd stump]

Try adding -force-opengl to the launch options of the game in steam.

[rare adder]

I'll try that but I did just figure something out. It only happens on randomized saves

[shrewd stump]

Generally speaking, in most cases on Linux the default graphics processing is done by a different process, and it's been discovered that it just doesn't handle larger memory operations that the modded game required.

Open-gl seems to handle it just fine though, so I suspect that it'll fix this issue.

[rare adder]

Sorry I got a phone call. It does seem to be working, I think that might be the issue

I'm playing in desktop mode now, I'll switch to gaming mode and try it again and if I don't have any issues there either, I think I'll call this resolved