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Tailon: I have same problem here. So, Claimant, did you find a solution?
Sorry for the late reply. I became so fed up I basically stopped with both the game & with gog.

I eventually built a new system, got things running to some extent, and unfortunately remember only a few of the dozens of things I had to get fixed. The most important & embarassing were on my end. I had forgotten to put myself in the video & games groups, so the video load-up would start & balk.

ysor123: Thank you for the response, but I'm afraid that runtime debugging, or even reading through memory dump, is far above my current capability level, or my current will-to-learn for a game... and I've never slopped wine on a keyboard. Though I have killed several mice with coffee, and one with scotch.

Best regards all.
In case anyone else ever runs into this lovely problem, try removing PulseAudio. At least for me, this POS was the culprit, as it often is. Apparently the version of Unity shipped with W2DC requires PA, and since everyone's only officially supporting Ubuntuoids, there was/is no incentive to solve this. But if you're on "unsupported" distros, check if you have libpulse installed, even if you know you aren't running PA. If it's there, chop it. Should now get you to the menu.

Oh, and then you still might have a problem where the opening scene loads and you can't do anything but type in text. In that case, you need the ulimit workaround. One thing to note is that you can't raise it past the hard limit, which might be also rather low, so if the soft limit numbers you see around on inXile forums and here refuse to work, check the hard limit first:

ulimit -Hn # prints out Hard limit for max number of open file descriptors
ulimit -Sn 4096 # set the Soft limit to 4096
Post edited September 03, 2017 by hyperagathon
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hyperagathon: In case anyone else ever runs into this lovely problem, try removing PulseAudio. At least for me, this POS was the culprit, as it often is. Apparently the version of Unity shipped with W2DC requires PA, and since everyone's only officially supporting Ubuntuoids, there was/is no incentive to solve this. But if you're on "unsupported" distros, check if you have libpulse installed, even if you know you aren't running PA. If it's there, chop it. Should now get you to the menu.
Still having other problems but at least deleting libpulse got me to the menus. Thanks!
Hello, I had the mysterious crash despite having set ulimit -n 4096

My problem came from not having pulseaudio (POETTERINGWARE) installed. GOG games seem to require it.

My workaround was to use the ALSA pulseaudio shim, apulse

apulse game/WL2 worked.

Unfortunately the game gets confused by a dual-monitor setup for fullscreen, so i had to set it to windowed mode. No big loss.

Cheers