I've been playing the game fine for a couple days, but all of a sudden it decided it doesn't like me!

The behavior is strange, at first it just crashed X, and then every time I tried again I would get further and further away from the game (First I got to entering universe, then to the login screen, then to the load screen, then nothing). I assume thats a memory leak or something...either way, im getting an error message thats been posted here before, so I have high hopes:

[Tue May 29 10:39:36 2007] Found driver: "Open Sound System driver". Type 1, Version 8.1. Load @0x08e84ee8
[Tue May 29 10:39:36 2007] Instantiate address: 0x57f370
[Tue May 29 10:39:36 2007] Found driver: "ALSA driver". Type 1, Version 8.1. Load @0x08e856b0
[Tue May 29 10:39:36 2007] Instantiate address: 0x960a40
[Tue May 29 10:39:36 2007] Found driver: "OpenGL Reference GKGL driver". Type 5, Version 70.0. Load @0x08e85e68
[Tue May 29 10:39:36 2007] Instantiate address: 0xbe9480
///////////////////This is what im talking about//////////
[Tue May 29 10:39:36 2007] Note: Didn't find exact match for 800x600x32.
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
[Tue May 29 10:39:36 2007] Here are the available modes:
[Tue May 29 10:39:36 2007] 0) 1024x768x24
[Tue May 29 10:39:36 2007] 1) 1024x768x24
[Tue May 29 10:39:36 2007] 2) 800x600x24
[Tue May 29 10:39:36 2007] 3) 800x600x24
[Tue May 29 10:39:36 2007] 4) 1024x768x24
[Tue May 29 10:39:36 2007] 5) 1024x768x24
[Tue May 29 10:39:36 2007] 6) 1024x768x24
[Tue May 29 10:39:36 2007] 7) 1024x768x24
[Tue May 29 10:39:36 2007] 8) 1024x768x24
[Tue May 29 10:39:36 2007] 9) 832x624x24
[Tue May 29 10:39:36 2007] 10) 800x600x24
[Tue May 29 10:39:36 2007] 11) 800x600x24
-- INSERT -- 1,1 Top

Now on the other post, the poster was kind enough to tell us to add "800x600x32" to a modeline in xorg.conf, but I don't know exactly where I would put it, heres my xorg.conf:

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "via"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
//////Here maybe?//////
Modes "1024x768" "1024x768" "800x600"
"800x600" "640x480" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

The "Modes" line seems the most logical, but I know there also exists something literally called a "modeline" so im unsure. xorg.conf is a pretty dangerous thing to edit, so I would be very grateful if someone could help.

Also, I've been working on this for 2 days or so, and im just wondering if theirs anyway I can get those days compensated back onto my account? If not its ok, just wondering.

No, I don't think the mode is the problem. I get that message on a fresh install too. There should be something like "and I picked mode bla" below that thing.

Try deleting ~/.vendetta/config.ini maybe that'll help.

About the refund. Try mailing billing@guildsoftware.com

Yeah, the mode thing is not a problem. If you scroll down a bit in the log you'll see it picked a 800x600x24 mode (there are multiple of them because they're at different refresh rates).. It just warns about an inexact match only because it isn't smart enough to look for 24-bit modes specifically.

The problem lies elsewhere. What video hardware are you using? Looks like an on-board VIA chipset?

Spot on, piece of shit came-with-the-computer VIA VT8378 S3 unichrome.

If its any help, I can run enemy-territory perfectly and thats a game with about the same graphical quality as vendetta.

Hmm. I've never heard of this before... don't know what to tell you. Are you actually getting kernel panics? Is there a log of the panic stack dump or anything available? Looks like you were able to log in at least yesterday.

You can try disabling stuff in ~/.vendetta/config.ini to see whether you can isolate the problem. And I can certainly extend your subscription a couple days for you.

Im fairly certain they are kernel panics, I cant do any of the normal crash-recovery techniques and am literally forced to do a hard reboot. Thats not happening anymore though, now its going back to just crashing X...I wish it would make up its mind!