This doesn't seem like a very good port to me... It's stuttering heavily on cutscenes and crashes to desktop when I try to build a facility. Also there is a few seconds of delay between the sound and the video when playing the cutscene at the beginning of a mission. Gameplay during missions is otherwise fine. This is all on archlinux.

The requirements for this game are much higher than the requirements on windows, for some strange reason. I didn't even bother to scroll down to the linux section since the windows section asked for an 8 year old graphics card (geforce 8600), a 2 Ghz processor and 2 Gigs of RAM. A game with these requirements basically runs on everything. Turns out the linux version requires at least a GTX 6-- series card and 4 Gigs of RAM. Apparently my GTX 275 is not supported. This is very puzzling. Natural Selection 2 is a far more beautiful and graphically demanding game, yet it runs flawlessly on this computer. The Civ 5 port is also totally fine for me. This game doesn't look like it's been very well optimized for linux.

Had to make an account to make this warning: make sure you check the linux requirements section, they are much higher than on windows.

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