Sorry, it starts up but it crashes when i go to start a game via [single player] >> [play now], it crashes with both default tech and 4 magictech.
Gentoo specific emerge --info [some pertains to linux generic also]:
emerge --info
Portage 2.2_rc33 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.1, glibc-2.10.1-r0, 2.6.30-gentoo-r4 x86_64)
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System uname: Linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r4-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:45:01 +0000
app-shells/bash: 4.0_p28
dev-lang/python: 2.6.2-r1, 3.1
dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r2
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1
sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r3
sys-apps/sandbox: 2.0
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1
sys-devel/automake: 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2, 1.11
sys-devel/binutils: 2.19.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool: 1.3.5, 2.2.6a
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=core2 -mtune=core2 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -mtune=core2 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.netnitco.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo/source/ http://gentoo.netnitco.net ftp://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en_US"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/python-experimental /usr/local/portage/layman/Spring /usr/local/portage/layman/mozilla /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa amd64 berkdb branding bzip2 cairo captury cdda cddax cdio cdparanoia cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt css ctype cups curl cxx dbus dri dts dv dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode evo fam fbcon fbcondecor ffmpeg filter firefox flac fontconfig gdbm gif gimp glib gnutls gpm graphviz gs gstreamer gtk hal httpd iconv imagemagick ipv6 isdnlog jpeg lame lcms ldap libass libcaca libnotify libwww lua lzma lzo mad matroska midi mikmod mjpeg mmx mmxext mng modplug mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap multilib musepack mysql ncurses nptl nptlonly ogg openal openexr opengl openmp openntpd oss pam pcre pdf perl physfs png ppds pppd python q16 q32 qt3support qt4 quicktime raw readline reflection remoteosd rtsp sasl sdl semantic-desktop session skins smp speex spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification stream svg sysfs tcpd theora threads thumbnail tiff truetype unicode usb vlm vorbis webdav-neon webkit wmf x264 xanim xcb xcomposite xft xml xorg xosd xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel usb-audio" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw copy dshare dsnoop extplug file hooks ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null rate share shm asym dmix empty iec958 plug route softvol mmap_emul" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse joystick evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_US" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS