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So funny, I finnaly upgraded to an nvidia card, seriously in part because I assumed this bug was never getting fixed (13+ months?).

Two weeks after I installed it... Lol

Glad it's worked out though.

in Linux - Black screen at start-up, then exit Comment by MrOption October 2014
I hope you can be forgiven. There are a lot of ATI users out there. in Linux - Black screen at start-up, then exit Comment by MrOption October 2013
Thanks, Confused. It's kind of heartbreaking that it doesn't work - I'm glad fglrx is on the radar. I hope it can be sorted out; if there's anything I can do to help, let me know.

in Linux - Black screen at start-up, then exit Comment by MrOption September 2013
Is there any news related to this? Is there a defect being tracked somewhere - any hope of a fix?

in Linux - Black screen at start-up, then exit Comment by MrOption September 2013
Ah - should have mentioned from the beginning - the framerate is fine on the title screen. I only observe the slowdown when in-game.

in Linux - Black screen at start-up, then exit Comment by MrOption September 2013
Running at my native resolution (1920x1200) I can finally get a tiny fraction of my normal framerate by turning all settings down. Haven't narrowed to any particular one that's the issue yet. Even with everything cranked down, there's still also a n…

in Linux - Black screen at start-up, then exit Comment by MrOption September 2013
OK, this is interesting. While eating my lunch had a free minute - decided to try downgrading to 12.10 - which is, "sudo apt-get install fglrx-experimental-12" followed by a reboot.

Now the game launches. But that "upgrade your version" …

in Linux - Black screen at start-up, then exit Comment by MrOption September 2013
Steam doesn't do the update itself, but it does give you warnings if you are not on the newest drivers available, and opens the control panel in Ubuntu used for installing the latest. Without knowing how Steam has implemented this warning, I can't k…

in Linux - Black screen at start-up, then exit Comment by MrOption September 2013
Hmm. I'm already on the latest "fglrx-experimental-13" in the repositories. Output in /var/log/Xorg.0.log
```
[     6.934] (II) LoadModule: "fglrx"
[     6.934] (II) Loading /usr/lib/…            
```
in Linux - Black screen at start-up, then exit Comment by MrOption September 2013
I enabled core dumping and forced the core file into existence.
```
(gdb) bt
#0  0xe008f6d4 in ?? () from /usr/lib32/fglrx/dri/fglrx_dri.so
#1  0x0c0f3540 in ?? ()
#2  0xe00…            
```
in Linux - Black screen at start-up, then exit Comment by MrOption September 2013
Same exact symptoms here.

Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit with the latest FGLRX.

When running steam from the te…

in Linux - Black screen at start-up, then exit Comment by MrOption September 2013