https://paste.ubuntu.com/25096384/

ubuntu 17.04 64 bit
nvidia gtx 960 driver 381.22
Intel Core i5-4670K CPU @ 3.8GHz

one thing though, launching as root (don't ever do this) it runs just fine.
before anybody says anything, the games files have full read write permissions

ok I got it, turned out that the config was locked behind root access, dunno why, but it was, I changed ownership of config from root to me and all is well