The game won't start neither crash

[Reuhman]

my problem on linux has nothing to do with the game. i just have a sound card that is not detected by alsa. i have to compile and install alsa myself, it's a real pain.

BUT THAT DOESN'T MATTER NOW : I JUST GOT THE GAME WORKING AGAIN.

the problem was indeed openal. it seems the openal with EAX that is automatically installed with the game doesn't work with my sound card (a creative labs live 24 bit external, that's really ironic). It made the game freeze even with sound disabled... really tricky

I just removed openal and ran the openal installer from openal.org and now it works !

i'm so happy.

now i'm going to sleep a bit. been trying to fix this for hours today and yesterday.

EDIT : now i wonder why the game stopped working only recently. In fact, this openal installer is inside the game installer (the 300MB+ file) so i had it since the beginning. I didn't change anything to my computer (hardware or software) recently. So this remains a mystery...