[Taltos]

Okay, I recently installed Ubuntu 8.04 onto my laptop without much problem. It's a dual core with 3gb of RAM, if that's relavent. I've never seen linux loaded onto a decent computer and I wanted to see what it looked like and what it could do.

In the Add/Remove Programs module(?), there was a game called Warzone 2100. I tried running this and it seems like a great game, but several minutes into the game, it crashes(?) and drops back to the ubuntu desktop. No warning messages or error messages or anything.

I tried uninstalling it and loading the last stable release of the game, which I was then warned not to do but ignored the warning, and I get the same result. Curious if it was my computer's hardware or something, I booted off Vista (dual-boot) and downloaded a windows version. The game runs fine.

Any idea how I might have ubuntu configured incorrectly or is it an incompatibiltiy in the packages somewhere? Any thoughts?

I'd like to get rid of vista completely.

[techieMoe]

One of the first things I do when diagnosing a problem is to open up a terminal window and launch the program from there. You get to see a lot more of the system messages that way and perhaps you'll see your error.

[Taltos]

This time I opened a terminal window and ran the program. (It took me awhile to figure out which command I was supposed to type. I thought it would be in /usr/bin but I was wrong. In the end, I copied the launcher from the applications window to the Desktop and then looked at its properties.)

I don't know why, but this time when it ran, instead of dropping me to the Ubuntu desktop, I instead got dumped back to the login screen. I typed my name and password and here I am again.

Any other ideas?

[Taltos]

I tried to uninstall the game and Synaptic gave me this message:

E: timidity: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
E: exult: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

Since the game dissapeared from my Applications menu, I tried to then re-install the game. I tried re-installing the game from the Add/Remove Programs area and it gives me the same message as above. The game, however, still appears in the applications menu and still starts up.

[wesley_morris2000]

Do you have desktop effects enabled? I have to turn them off to play games or it will crash X.

[Taltos]

I am happy to report that I have finally played through the entire first mission of Warzone 2100 and am quite pleased. Thank you.

Apparently, the desktop effects and the game are somehow incompatible.

I'm still a little nervous that I can't uninstall, reinstall, or apparently update the game, but for now am quite pleased that I can play it and show it to my friends.

[wesley_morris2000]

No problem. Glad it helped.