Re: new linux user having probs w/ dominions
 

If you are using Gnome try turning the visual effects off (Preferences->Apeareance->Visual Effects) they seem to cause problems with Dom3. And use proprietary drivers. :)

Re: new linux user having probs w/ dominions
 

I can't remember where I heard about "suspend" problems, but I do know that it crashes my friend's (very dodgy) laptop running Ubuntu (probably 8.04), and also my laptop (utterly ancient and running Puppy Linux, which is a much less slick kind of beast so not very surprising).

The Ubuntu forums should know lots about this. They are excellent. But in general I believe it is probably worth using proprietary drivers. Maybe there is a workaround for the suspend crash.

Re: new linux user having probs w/ dominions
 

Linux doesn't have a problem with suspend mode in general, though, those are hardware/driver issues. I have no troubles with suspend/resume. Puppy Linux is an abomination, BTW... :cool:

Re: new linux user having probs w/ dominions
 

Just to help clear up any confusion, ATI's proprietary drivers are generally called fglrx and there are a couple of open source ones that ship with Xorg, radeon generally being the one you would want to use from among those. These drivers are almost certainly kernel modules, and so you can check which one is loaded with:
(More refined methods exist on various distributions, but the above should work just about anywhere.)

Also, you may want to look at the output of glxinfo, specifically the vendor strings. If you see Mesa in one of them, then there is a chance (though not a guarantee) that software rendering may be being performed.


As part of the troubleshooting process, I would definitely start by stripping down the in-game rendering options as much as possible, and then adding them back one by one or cranking them up in increments. It could be that a particular option, such as grass, is the killer.

Re: new linux user having probs w/ dominions
 

OK.

well I reinstalled the proprietary drivers. Everything runs fine and I'll just not use suspend. Also dominions runs great now. I can set everything to the highest detail, except for battle detail which is on 'very high', a step below the highest 'too high'. On very high I get ~27 fps, on too high it was about 5 :o