The updater for the game works fine but if you try to update the updater it crashes. Have to hit the "later" button on the patcher update message and then the "old" patcher will update the game. After that clicking start will launch the game. Under Ubuntu 9.10 with a nvidia graphics card there appears to be a strange graphical glitch where character's noses appear as lines extending far from their body. I do not know if this is specific to nvidia or if this is a general glitch. Also updating the display settings during game play causes the game to immediately crash. Other than that the game plays very well.