[SOLVED]Issue report: Postal 2 lockup on intro screen

[vsteel]

When I try and play postal 2 I get the little red screen that comes up with the warning of don't do any of this stuff in real life. The box goes away and then the next full screen starts to appear and it locks up. (I can tell by an icon on my monitor I am switching resolutions but I don't know to what.) It is dark but you can just start to make out some items vaguely. Just like it has shown the first frame of an animation and then locked up on the fade in. You can't alt tab or anything out of the screen. Sound I think is working normally. I have to hit the reset button to escape.

I didn't find any logs that would help as the machine locks up so hard I don't think they are getting captured. If you can point me to some logs that you would like to see or experiments I should run I would be more than happy to.

Processor Information:
    Vendor:  GenuineIntel
    Speed: 3401 Mhz
    8 logical processors
    4 physical processors
    HyperThreading:  Supported
    FCMOV:  Supported
    SSE2:  Supported
    SSE3:  Supported
    SSSE3:  Supported
    SSE4a:  Unsupported
    SSE41:  Supported
    SSE42:  Supported
    
Network Information:
    Network Speed:  
    
Operating System Version:
    Ubuntu 12.10 (64 bit)
    Kernel Name:  Linux
    Kernel Version:  3.5.0-21-generic
    X Server vendor:  The X.Org Foundation
    X Server release:  11300000
    
Video Card:
    Driver:  NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 680/PCIe/SSE2

    Driver Version:  4.3.0 NVIDIA 313.09
    Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
    Monitor Refresh Rate: 59 Hz
    VendorID:  0x10de
    DeviceID:  0x1180
    Number of Monitors:  1
    Number of Logical Video Cards:  1
    Primary Display Resolution:  1920 x 1200
    Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1200
    Primary Display Size: 20.43" x 12.76"  (24.06" diag)
                                            51.9cm x 32.4cm  (61.1cm diag)
    Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
    Primary VRAM: 4096 MB
    Supported MSAA Modes:  2x 4x 8x 16x 
    
Sound card:
    Audio device: AV200
    
Memory:
    RAM:  32122 Mb
    
Miscellaneous:
    UI Language:  English
    LANG:  en_US.UTF-8
    Microphone:  Not set
    Total Hard Disk Space Available:  1877791 Mb
    Largest Free Hard Disk Block:  1285924 Mb
    
Installed software:
    
Recent Failure Reports:
    

Solution: I was unable to find any errors and Postal 2 would keep locking up so I thought I would start it from the console to allow me to see what was going on and capture the output. For some reason starting Steam from the console allowed Postal 2 to run. I was able to change the game resolution to my standard screen resolution and then I could start Steam from my icon from my KDE start menu and have Postal 2 work correctly.

[vsteel]

I also had this issue on Postal 2 Apocalypse weekend. The intro screen would be black but I could hear the music and moving the mouse around I could hear menu items being selected. Started Steam from the command line, loaded the game in the default resolution just fine, set it to my screens resolution (1900x1200) and it would work like normal after that.

I am not sure what the issues are with the screen resolution when starting from an icon versus starting from the command line.