"What graphics card? Do glxinfo | grep str and/or lspci | grep -i vga It's quite possible your system is too old for this game, http://store.steampowered.com/app/22000/ says it requires 64 MB of vram and a graphics card "less than 5 years old"." glxinfo | grep str server glx vendor string: SGI server glx version string: 1.4 client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI client glx version string: 1.4 OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc. OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R100 (RV200 4C57) 20090101 x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL DRI2 OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 7.10.2 lspci | grep -i vga 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] This game works great on xp but doesn't work on linux so I need a way to get it to work