[Linux] Game crashes after pre caching

Love_Aristocrat

Hi, I've been reading around the forums and I've seen similar problems to this, but since none seem to be exactly the same as mine (unless I'm mistaken) I thought I'd post what information I have.

In a nutshell: The main menu loads fine, but as soon as I try to enter a game (either the tutorial or an actual game), once the pre-caching has finished, the game just exits.

I've tried using the "Basic setup guide for linux." guide, and various means of changing the locale such as LANG=en_US.UTF-8 steam, LANG=en_US steam and such but none seem to change anything. Since I just installed it I haven't used any mods or anything so this must be a problem I'm having with the default build.

Here's what it says when I run it in terminal:

Client : 53.154388 : tutorial begin!
WARNING: Corrected case of '/home/lloyd/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Natural Selection 2/ns2/models/alien/tunnel/Mouth_spec.dds'
WARNING: Corrected case of '/home/lloyd/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Natural Selection 2/ns2/models/marine/Dropship/dropship2_illum.dds'
WARNING: Corrected case of '/home/lloyd/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Natural Selection 2/ns2/models/marine/Dropship/dropship2_spec.dds'
WARNING: Corrected case of '/home/lloyd/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Natural Selection 2/ns2/models/marine/Dropship/dropship2_normal.dds'
WARNING: Corrected case of '/home/lloyd/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Natural Selection 2/ns2/models/marine/Dropship/dropship2.dds'
WARNING: Corrected case of '/home/lloyd/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Natural Selection 2/ns2/models/marine/Dropship/dropshithird_party/tcmalloc/chromium/src/system-alloc.cc:423] SbrkSysAllocator failed.
third_party/tcmalloc/chromium/src/system-alloc.cc:423] MmapSysAllocator failed.
third_party/tcmalloc/chromium/src/system-alloc.cc:423] SbrkSysAllocator failed.
third_party/tcmalloc/chromium/src/system-alloc.cc:423] MmapSysAllocator failed.
[0912/120859:FATAL:process_util_linux.cc(632)] Out of memory.
p1_illum.dds'
WARNING: Corrected case of '/home/lloyd/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Natural Selection 2/ns2/models/marine/Dropship/dropship1_spec.dds'
WARNING: Corrected case of '/home/lloyd/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Natural Selection 2/ns2/models/marine/Dropship/dropship1_normal.dds'
WARNING: Corrected case of '/home/lloyd/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Natural Selection 2/ns2/models/marine/Dropship/dropship1.dds'
Aborted (core dumped)
Game removed: AppID 4920 "Natural Selection 2", ProcID 6312

I also attached the log.txt file from the .config/Natural Selection 2 directory and my system information below.

Sorry for the trouble and thanks in advance.

Confused

So, it looks like you are running into the out of memory crash issue, the easiest mitigation is to go to the options menu, and turn the textures and particles down, and ensure texture streaming is on.

You will probably still crash but it should take longer to do it:)

The bug is known and being worked on.

Love_Aristocrat

Ah many thanks, looks like that fixed it. Guess it was my bad for putting the options on high so sorry about that xD