Hi,

I just bought this game during the summer sale and I can't get it to work. It simply does not work. Regardless of what I do: click on the icon through the application menu or run ./start.sh, the screen flickers for a second and then goes back to my desktop.

If someone can help me out, I"d appreciate it. Thanks

Thanks for that :). Its a viable workaround (the agme launches, haven't tried playing it yet).

Its just unnecessary and avoidable :( Hey Linuxvangog,

Whoa, you're part of the GOG team; I really didn't expect a response from anyone at that level.

Before I answer your questions, lightonflux has suggested a workaround that seems to work thus far (I haven't started the playing the game yet, but it at least launches).

Hopefully it can be rectified so that other users aren't inconvenienced in the future.

As an aside (and I'm only saying this due to your position as a member of GOG), I've been somewhat disappointed with my Linux experience on GOG. I don't have exact numbers, but it feels like only 50% of the games I buy will work in Linux. With the rest of them, I end up throwing my hands and just playing their windows variants (which is something I'd like to avoid).

I'm sure you guys are working on fixing these issues, but I just needed to get that off my chest and just remind the team that a more robust quality control would be nice.

Thanks and keep up the good work

I was able (with a lot of help from others) to find the cause of the problem, but not yet the reason.

So the scripts all work fine, which was kind of expected because i couldn't find an error before.

The problem is in the support libraries, well one of them.

Teslagrad/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.19

If you delete it (and the symlink) the game runs fine (started with start.sh).

While this problem was found by people using distros that are not supported, it seems likely that future versions of Ubuntu might have the same problem.