[solved]Crashes during load

[Urkle]

AMD64
Gentoo (Linux 2.6.20-gentoo-r8)
Penumbra DEMO

The game starts and gives me a black screen with the word "Loading" on it for about 8 seconds, then dissapears and leaves me back at my desktop without bothering to set the resolution back to normal.

I've symlinked the libraries included with the game to those compiled on my own system (32-bit) with gcc 4.1

Did you try running the game with the provided libs?
Also, can you attach a copy of your hpl.log (located in ~/.frictionalgames/Penumbra Overture/Episode1)