Game crashes for no apparent reason after about 10 minutes

[harvestman]

I am running the latest version of the game on the newest Ubuntu platform on a Mesh dual core PC that, before I ditched Windows, was running all kinds of resource-heavy games with no trouble.

I have tried playing the game 3 times and each time have encountered the same problem - the game freezes briefly and then just disappears from the screen with no way of restarting it - i.e. no bar at the bottom of the screen. The Ubuntu desktop is then too large to fit on my screen (i.e. the resolution chosen by the game is stuck) and I have to reboot the computer.

Any ideas?

[tomreyn]

I am running the latest version of the game on the newest Ubuntu platform on a Mesh dual core PC [..]

Hmm, the latest version? Do you mean a beta of Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty) which is to be released today or the previous stable release, Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick), released in Oct 2010? In case you don't know, help.ubuntu.com has a page explaining how to find out.

I have tried playing the game 3 times and each time have encountered the same problem - the game freezes briefly and then just disappears from the screen with no way of restarting it - i.e. no bar at the bottom of the screen. The Ubuntu desktop is then too large to fit on my screen (i.e. the resolution chosen by the game is stuck) and I have to reboot the computer.

First of all, while this is causing trouble, you most likely want to run MG windowed so your display resolution doesn't get tampered with. Edit ~/.megaglest/glestuser.ini (using gedit or any other plain text file editor) and ensure (add or modify) it contains this line:

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Windowed=1

In case you're not into this, yet, most Linux (and other) shells will expand the character ~ to 'your home directory' which, if your Ubuntu login name was harvestman, your home directory would usually be located at /home/harvestman/.

Now run the game from a terminal instead of from the gnome menu. Just start up the terminal, then, in the terminal window, type (or copy + paste to it, line by line):

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cd ~/megaglest
./megaglest --verbose &>/tmp/megaglest-verbose.log

This will capture all text/error output produced by MegaGlest in the file /tmp/megaglest-verbose.log. Now use gedit or a similar plain text editor to open this file. Copy all of its contents to the clipboard and paste it to this board within a

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[spoiler][/spoiler] section.