I'm trying to run this with freebsd. Here's my errors.log file

[Wed Sep 10 21:49:06 2003] Can't load driver /usr/home/bob/.vendetta/drivers/gkgl.so: libGLU.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[Wed Sep 10 21:49:06 2003] Found driver: "Open Sound System driver". Type 1, Version 6.1. Load @0x0825f040
[Wed Sep 10 21:49:06 2003] Instantiate address: 0x2836fd40
Found 0 joystick(s)
[Wed Sep 10 21:49:06 2003] SetVideoMode failed, line 32
Fatal Error: Couldn't open window.

What does the gkgl.so library do. I have an Nvidia card with glx working. I have linux compatibility on and working. Any thoughts?

But do you have the GL development library libGLU.so.1 on your system?

yes, its in /usr/X11R6/lib, I copied it to /compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib. Same error

gkgl.so is the glue between OpenGL and the Vendetta game engine. Under Windows there is a similar .dll for DirectX.

It just sounds like an ldconfig issue, but I don't know enough about FreeBSD's Linux emulation to recommend a solution. You could try ldconfig -m /compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib. The problem might also be that you need an actual Linux libGLU instead of a FreeBSD one.

I got it to work, I installed the linux-mesa port and reinstalled my nvidia driver. I get lots of crashes though. Do you (the developers) want to hear about them?

Well, it's probably Mesa which is crashing. The Mesa+NVidia driver combination, if it works at all, tends to be really slow anyway. You can submit the crash reports, which I may find interesting, but I probably won't be able fix. I'll at least try to figure out what's going on.