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a while ago I bought "Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II: Retribution" for linux. The Game works with Ubuntu (Mint) but I can't get it running on archlinux.
The game will start but after I give my first move order, the game freezes after about 10 second and about 30 seconds later the game exit.
I wrote a while ago to feral about this but of cause archlinux is not supported and the NVidia driver I use is not too.
If someone has an idea how to solve this problem, besides using a dual boot system. (Funny, now that many don't need a dual boot with linux and windows anymore, we have to start dual booting different linux distributions:)
My system: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1231 v3 @ 3.40GHz, Kernel-Version: 4.8.13-1-ARCH, Desktop: i3wm, GPU NVidia GTX970 Driver 375.26.
(BTW, there is an other game I can't run anymore: "Tales of the Orient: The Rising Sun")
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I did some more experimenting with strace and gdb and every time the game freezes gdb told me that has something to do with malloc. Looks like there is a deadlock of some kind. The next test was, coping the libc.so.6 from my older linux-mint folder into the libs game folder but the game is still freezing.
Then I took a closer lock at the start script and found that in case the catalyst driver was found, a tcmalloc lib was loaded. Giving it a try and to my surprise the game now works. Did not played much but at least I managed to reach the first base point :)