Can't start or join a game on Linux

-WildCat-

I recently installed Ubuntu 13.04 64-bit into a new partition on my hard drive. I've got Steam installed and NS2 downloaded.

NS2 launches fine but, when I try to join a server, it exits back to the main menu with the following message:

Your game files do not match the server's. Try verifying your game cache in Steam, or maybe an update just came out.

Additionally, if I start my own server, the game will apparently go through the whole loading process successfully but, instead of spawning into the ready room, I just get a black screen (and an orange cursor with nothing to click on). At this point, pressing Esc does nothing and I have to end the process with the System Monitor.

I have tried verifying my game cache and everything checks out fine.

My system specs:

• MSI Big Bang MPower Z77 Motherboard
• Intel Core i7-3770K @ 4.5GHz
• Corsair Dominator Platinum 8GB DDR3 1866Mhz RAM
• NVIDIA Geforce GTX 690
• NVIDIA proprietary driver 319.60
• ASUS Xonar Essence STX PCI-Express audio card

Confused

Yep, you are probably running into a locale issue.

So you can overcome the issue by setting LC_ALL to en_US.UTF8 until it's fixed. soon(tm)

-WildCat-

Thanks. That fixed the problem. I can start and join servers now.

That said, the game crashes a hell of a lot. I've had it crash upon spawning into the ready room as well as upon firing a weapon for the first time (and this was just during by brief tests).

rkfg

It's a well-known issue. You either crash early or later because of out of memory (process address space actually). Little we can do here, you may lower all the settings to the minimum (to postpone the OOM-crash) but it doesn't solve segfaults in the OpenGL renderer. Build 258 probably makes it out today (Friday I mean, PST) or wait until Monday at least. I don't know what's being fixed now but I hope Linux bugs are somehow important for devs to fix. I mean, at least 64-bit Windows users play almost flawleslly, they don't have crashes but we do regardless of architecture.

Confused

@rkfg, I can tell you that by and large they know about most of the linux issues. It alos seems like many of the problems across operating systems are coming from the out of memory problem which keeps cropping up in odd places.

I know it seems like this patch has taken forever. But, it seemed better to make sure it was working for everyone rather than push it and regret it.

Also, in case I forgot to thank you for the dumps in the other thread thanks for them put a bunch of those into internal bugs/sent them to devs.

rkfg

@Confused, glad it helps! After all, that's what community is for — making things better for everyone. I really hope devs get it sorted out in 258 whenever it comes out.