I am running 64-bit ubuntu 8.10.My video card is an ATI Radeon 4670, with the proprietary FLGRX driver 'activated and currently in use'. I have been running with all settings at the highest possible, and everything in-system/in-sector is smooth like butter. However, upon making the warp through a -wormhole-, the app quits midway through the loading screen. Not sure if it bears any significance, but when I re-enter my ship has made it successfully through the wormhole, is not moving, and has FA disabled whether or not I had it enabled. The app also quit when I attempted to switch to windowed mode.

How I installed (if it matters): sh'd the installer code. I had it install the executable to desktop. I launched just fine and went through the updates and everything without a hitch.

I was told that it sniffed of a graphics issue, but I don't have much idea how to resolve it either way. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

A quick search of this forum because I was too stupid to do so before yields that this is most likely an -audio- driver issue, as I have not got sound IG which I stupidly did not notice because I had set it that way on my old machine (d'oh).

One last update: My sound is OSS. I tried to switch the Vendetta driver to OSS in-game which resulted in the app quitting. I then tried the solution detailed here: http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/6/21084?page=#261052 resulting in a totally lagged up game.

Issue has been resolved using magic.

And by magic I mean I destroyed my entire GNOME doing some unrelated things and reinstalled ubuntu-desktop from within the live cd to find that when I returned all my sound had been reconfigured to ALSA and that VO worked flawlessly. Hooray.

http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/6/21084

i had the same issue with OSS also. Documented how I fixed it above in two threads.