Cities: Skylines won't start

[vdeane]

Anyone here play Cities: Skylines? I have Mint 18 Cinnamon x64, just updated my Nvidia drivers when an update appeared in update manager last night, and now the game won't start. It just crashes Cinnamon (when this happens, the cursor for the game appears but nothing else except a message saying Cinnamon is in fallback mode and the desktop freezes; I have to go to another tty interface to kill the game and restart Cinnamon). Granted, it's been a while since I last played the game, so I can't be entirely certain that this is the issue (I was actually running it as a test of the driver update). Paradox support is of no help. A few other hardware/software details:
-kernel 4.4.0-21-generic
-Intel Core i5-6500 @3.20GHz x 4
-7.7 GiB RAM
-NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

[daret]

HI,

please sen more information:

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inxi -F

Try to run is from console and send console output (if possible because of freezing)

You can try older, or newer drivers (PPA from https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers ... ubuntu/ppa).

Or try to install openbox, login to open box and run Skylines from openbox (e.g. run console and skylines from console).

[vdeane]

Here's the output for inxi. I can try running the game again later tonight.

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System:    Host: LapisLazuli Kernel: 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64 (64 bit)
           Desktop: Cinnamon 3.0.7  Distro: Linux Mint 18 Sarah
Machine:   Mobo: ASUSTeK model: H170M-PLUS v: Rev X.0x
           Bios: American Megatrends v: 0405 date: 08/11/2015
CPU:       Quad core Intel Core i5-6500 (-MCP-) cache: 6144 KB 
           clock speeds: max: 3600 MHz 1: 800 MHz 2: 800 MHz 3: 800 MHz
           4: 800 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GM206 [GeForce GTX 950]
           Display Server: X.Org 1.18.3 drivers: nvidia (unloaded: fbdev,vesa,nouveau)
           Resolution: 1600x900@60.00hz
           GLX Renderer: GeForce GTX 950/PCIe/SSE2
           GLX Version: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 375.39
Audio:     Card-1 NVIDIA Device 0fba driver: snd_hda_intel
           Card-2 Intel Sunrise Point-H HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.4.0-21-generic
Network:   Card: Intel Ethernet Connection (2) I219-V driver: e1000e
           IF: enp0s31f6 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full
           mac: 30:5a:3a:7f:56:59
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 500.1GB (16.6% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: ST500DM002 size: 500.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 451G used: 70G (17%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 8.50GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda3
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8C mobo: 27.8C gpu: 41C
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 0
Info:      Processes: 212 Uptime: 10:16 Memory: 3120.6/7899.1MB
           Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.2.35

[vdeane]

OK, so I tried to run Cities: Skylines from the console but it occurred to me that I have absolutely no idea how to do this. I thought I could just type "steam" and launch the game from the library, but I guess not, since the command prompt was just waiting for my next command rather than waiting for output from steam.

EDIT: Just tried the game again, and for some reason, it actually works tonight. Weird.