Game overheats my laptop... (And other problems/inquiries)

[BananaDealer]

Well, this is awkward... I expected a game as simple (no offense, strictly tech-wise) as this to pose no threat to my humble i7 quad-core, Nvidia GF 560M sporting laptop which runs Skyrim on Ultimate... But alas, your game seems to be too intense for me!
I got it going the first time (ESET got a false positive for the .exe file btw, but that has already been reported) and played a blissfully awesome 10-15 minutes, then the bloody laptop overheated...
Rebooted, started up and... Aw space balls- You guys should really make a saving system at least after entering a new sector. The game didn't keep my progress... Which was rather far- 4th-5th sector!
Anyways, started a new game. At the initial ship customization/selection screen, I named my ship, changed the names of my initial crew and... BOOM! Overheat! That was what? Not even 3 minutes! Count it 5 from reboot...
So I'm equally amazed and stumped (and dumbfounded)...

So yeah...

Also- What's the deal with the Linux version? I've got an Ubuntu partition and bought the game initially for it... So I got the .gz archive, extracted it into its own shiny folder... Saw the readme file and tried to run first the FTL script inside the data folder, which was to no avail (not even in terminal), and then the one outside the data folder but again- not even a spark...
I'm relatively new to Ubuntu and Linux in general so any tips and guidance would be welcome...

[Matthew]

Hi! Sorry about the problems.

Overheating issues:

-Make sure your drivers are fully up to date.
-Go into your graphics control panel (I think it's the 'NVIDIA Control Panel') and try to force ON V-Sync to see if that helps.

Linux:

Try running FTL from a terminal. Open up the terminal and navigate to the top level of the FTL folder (above the data folder) and run that script:

cd ~/path/to/FTL/folder
./FTL

And tell me what output you get. There should be an error explaining why it didn't start.

[BananaDealer]

Well, however I try and put in the directory, it says 'no such file or directory'.
Here's how I write it... Probably terribly terribly wrong...

ban-anad@Oponn:~$ cd ~/home/ban-anad/Desktop/FTL ./FTL
bash: cd: /home/ban-anad/home/ban-anad/Desktop/FTL: No such file or directory

Should I input ./FTL onto a new line?

Silly me... Figured out how to input it...

So here's the error:

ban-anad@Oponn:~$ cd '/home/ban-anad/Desktop/FTL'
ban-anad@Oponn:~/Desktop/FTL$ ./FTL
Loading Arch = x86
No settings file found!
Initializing Crash Catcher...
Initializing Video
SDL Error: Couldn't find matching GLX visual

[Matthew]

Hmm. What Ubuntu version are you on? Have you installed your video card drivers? Go to the top right gear->System Settings and then select "Additional Drivers" and make sure they are installed.

[BananaDealer]

Ubuntu 12.04 and no, I have all my drivers...

[kutte128]

Hey,

which driver are you using?
Last time i tested, ubuntu just installs just the opensource 2d-driver by default.

[BananaDealer]

How do I actually check my drivers? The Additional Drivers check says there are none needed, but isn't threre something like a device/driver manager where I can see them all?

Also the 'Details' section shows Graphics as Unknown... I think that might be the problem...

[curithwin]

I have Game Booster 3 and it tells me what drivers I need to make my system current. It only checks non-beta versions of the drivers.

Also you can tell Nvidia to keep an eye out for ANY updates and tell you when they come available.

[Matthew]

Can you give me the output of "glxinfo." Just type that into the terminal and hit enter. It will be a lot of text.

[BananaDealer]

OK, I think I figured it out... Updating my Nvidia drivers using this command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:upubuntu-com/nvidia
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

I'm gonna see where that gets me and then post the glxinfo.

Boy, this is by far the best tech support I've gotten on a game site... Most other places simply wave you off with 'This forum is only for reporting bugs'...

Anyhur, you guys are great. Your game is great. I'm gonna name my kids after you. I'm really regretting I missed the Kickstarter...

Edit: Well, that appears to have given me a big nothing...

Here's the glxinfo output:

ban-anad@Oponn:~$ glxinfo
name of display: :0
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0".
Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig

Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0".

I have a feeling that's not what it's supposed to say...