TORCS closes when starting a race

Support & Help Requests
1

I have installed TORCS on my Ubuntu MATE laptop, and although the computer is quite old, it’s specs seems to match up with the requirements. I tried to install it manually (with great difficulty :rage:)), until I found out I could just ue Synaptic Package Manager. Derp. Anyhow, it starts up fine, with a little bit of lag, but when I try to start a race, the window closes unexpectedly. How do I run TORCS? I use Ubuntu MATE 15.10, 1GB RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 graphics card. Also, how do I check the memory on the graphics card? It says it can support up to 64MB but I’m not sure how much is actually installed.

2

Code:

lspci -vs $(lspci | awk '/VGA/ { print $1}')

In my case I have 256M of video ram

Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]

3

Okay, well it looks like I have enough video memory:
Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Somebody on a previous thread said my graphics card could only support 64MB. Hm.

4

Have you looked in BIOS and changed the VGA output (shared memory) in the VGA settings of your motherboard, try doubling the amount, say from 64 to 128 MB or whatever other sizes you may have!. :smiley:

5

I couldn’t find any settings for that in my BIOS.

6

Start the game in terminal and paste the terminal output here . There should be some debugging info we could use

7

Okay, here’s the output:

Visual Properties Report
------------------------
Compatibility mode, properties unknown.
OpenAL backend info:
  Vendor: OpenAL Community
  Renderer: OpenAL Soft
  Version: 1.1 ALSOFT 1.16.0
  Available sources: 256
  Available buffers: 1024 or more
  Dynamic Sources: requested: 235, created: 235
  #static sources: 21
  #dyn sources   : 235
/usr/games/torcs: line 53:  2834 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) $LIBDIR/torcs-bin -l $LOCAL_CONF -L $LIBDIR -D $DATADIR $*
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Trie this solution https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=158336