Mark Hughes played 6 hours without crash. His configuration is mentioned here

Hi, I installed it under Fedora 11 x86_64 and the game crashes when loading the city. The game starts ok but I can't pass that step. The sound and video was ok. I changed the options to minimal but no luck, the same problem.

I've not patched the game yet, is it neccesary?

Hard:

Athlon X2 4000+
Ram 2 GB 667 Mhz
nvidia GeForce 8600GT 512 MB

Thanks.