Thanks for the reply.
I installed it from the repos, not sure you did the same? Is it the latest
version? I don't know.
The game actually crashed on me once but during the gameplay and because of a
"bug" (basically I went through a wall and the game couldn't deal with that,
so it crashed). But other than that I can play the game at any graphics
level, the only issue is that the karts disappear after level 4 (in level 5
and up I notice that it says other player karts are animated... maybe that is
the reason?).
The machine might be doing it all with software, I don't know... It's a dual
core 2.4, 4gbs ram DDR3. Which machine are you using?
I am a total noob in this game. I used to play it a lot back when I was using
windows... about 8 or 9 years ago. So I am not very good at it now. But I
still enjoy it :)