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Hello,

I am using a Lenovo Thinkpad x120e with 8gbs of ram using Xubuntu 12.10
Everytime I start FTL, the loading bar fills up completely, it hangs for a second, and then crashes my X server and puts me back into the login screen. I have read that deleting libstdc++.so.6 fixes the issue, but I did not help at all for me. I have also read that forcing vsync in driconf fixes the issue, but driconf does not work on my system

I would really like to play this game, and I would appriciate all help.
Thanks,
Shrub

Usually a crash at the end of the loading screen is a corrupt profile. Have you gotten the game to run before or have you tried editing the file?

You can check this location for 'prof.sav' and delete it to see if it fixes the problem. You will lose any unlocks if you have any, so you can back it up just in case that's not the problem and you have stuff you want to save.

~/.local/share/FasterThanLight

Let me know if that helps.

Matthew wrote:Usually a crash at the end of the loading screen is a corrupt profile. Have you gotten the game to run before or have you tried editing the file?

You can check this location for 'prof.sav' and delete it to see if it fixes the problem. You will lose any unlocks if you have any, so you can back it up just in case that's not the problem and you have stuff you want to save.

~/.local/share/FasterThanLight

Let me know if that helps.

Thank you for the response

I have never launched the game on this computer and that folder is empty

What graphics card does your computer have?

Have you tried running the game from the command line? Can try to capture the game output using a command-line similar to this one: Right after the X crash, can you look at ~/.xsession-errors and see if you have any alarming error message near the end of the file? Similarly, have a look at the bottom of /var/log/syslog.

Interesting turn off events:

My linux installation became corrupted after a bad upgrade and failed to boot, I could not find a solution after hours of searching and had to restort to reinstallation

FTL was the first thing I installed (besides video drivers), and surprisingly it worked.

Perhaps it was something I had installed? I don't know. Whatever was the issue, it doesn't matter much anymore, I can play fine now

Thank you all for your help!
Shrub