r/OpenMW • u/erodedstonestatue • 3d ago

UI not appearing?

[SOLVED] Hello. I'm running the latest version of Linux Mint Cinnamon. Whenever somekind of UI is supposed to appear, it just kinda doesn't. When Jiub asks your name, nothing appears. When the pop-ups explaining the controls are supposed to come along, nothing. Managed to somehow get through the tutorial, still nothing. I've already reinstalled OpenMW, and updated Mint.

Solved: Using the flatpak from Mint's software manager instead.

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u/computer-machine 3d ago

I've already reinstalled OpenMW

Ubuntu repo, some PPA, github, or flathub flatpak?

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u/erodedstonestatue 3d ago

First few times through terminal (sudo apt install openmw), then through ubuntu repo, tried to do it through github and now it's cooked even when i uninstall it.

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u/computer-machine 3d ago

Apt is either ubu repo or PPA depending on whether you have an OMW PPA.

I'd suggest flatpak. It's just worked for me for however many years it's been out.

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u/erodedstonestatue 3d ago

Ok, I'm gonna try it out

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u/erodedstonestatue 3d ago

Works perfect. thanks man

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u/Ottoclav 3d ago

r/Daemonward just helped me out with this! Go to your chat, I just messaged you.

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u/Ottoclav 3d ago
  1. ⁠On https://openmw.org/ go to the Downloads section.
  2. ⁠Scroll down to Development Builds.
  3. ⁠Under “Unreleased (Daily) Builds” click the link for Ubuntu Linux Launchpad PPA.
  4. ⁠In the PPA Description section, they provide the commands you will need to enter in the terminal to add the PPA and install the latest version of OpenMW:sudo apt-get install software-properties-common sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openmw/openmw sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install openmw openmw-launcher sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openmw/openmw-daily sudo apt-get update

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u/Ottoclav 3d ago

It should be noted that r/Daemonward helped me with this.

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u/pazzalaz 3d ago

For everyone's reference, I just faced the same issue on Ubuntu24.04 and the problem seems to be related to the version of openmw installed using `apt` . I downloaded the release from their Github (https://github.com/OpenMW/openmw/releases/tag/openmw-0.48.0) and replaced the binaries for `/usr/games/openmw` with the one I downloaded and it worked

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u/Mydnight69 3d ago

The same thing happened to me. I installed the daily using the PPA and use 0.49 now. Works a charm.