Linux Compatibility Expansion

After a lot of effort and some excellent insight from Sylvain Bertrand (thank you) we are now able to support a broader range of linux distributions with a few simple modifications/launch profiles.

We will be integrating these into the code/steam store as time allows but here is a summary of what we found:

• It is highly recommended that you set your monitor's refresh rate to 60hz. We are working on a code fix for this and our engine vendor has a ticket open that should resolve it shortly but in the meantime, this change will make the game speed playable.
• The game's main directory needs to be added to the linux loader lookup paths. This can be accomplished thusly: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH %command% A startup script containing the following will make this automatic: #!/bin/sh LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH export LD_LIBRARY_PATH exec ./risksystem This would be added as a file named something like risksystem.sh and executed. This launch option will be added to the next production release if not sooner.
• It was discovered that one of the major points of failure was an attempt to send anonymous data to the game engine provider. The curl implementation was not in the location expected leading to a hard crash. This is no longer present.

We are very excited to have broadened the Linux support for the game and hope the community can try it out and let us know if these solutions work. We know there is more to do and as long as people are trying to play Risk System, we'll do what we can to allow that to happen.

Enjoy!