https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100242
--- Comment #3 from tnmailinglists@gmail.com --- I retested the game with mesa 12.0.6 and xserver-xorg-video-radeon 1:7.7.1 (the current versions for default Lubuntu 16.10) and noticed that while the game doesn't crash, it still produces buffer allocation failures during startup:
2.969 Initial atlas bitmap size is 8192 radeon: Failed to allocate a buffer: radeon: size : 268435456 bytes radeon: alignment : 16384 bytes radeon: domains : 4 radeon: flags : 20 radeon: Failed to allocate a buffer: radeon: size : 268435456 bytes radeon: alignment : 16384 bytes radeon: domains : 4 radeon: flags : 20 radeon: Failed to allocate a buffer: radeon: size : 268435456 bytes radeon: alignment : 16384 bytes radeon: domains : 4 radeon: flags : 20 radeon: Failed to allocate a buffer: radeon: size : 268435456 bytes radeon: alignment : 16384 bytes radeon: domains : 4 radeon: flags : 20 3.029 Couldn't create atlas bitmap (size 8192x8182), will try again 3.094 Created atlas bitmap 4096x4096