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Festin January 30th, 2009 10:20 PM

Dom3 runs slow on Linux
 
Hello. I just tried to install Dominions 3 on my new Debian system, and it works fine, except very slowly. Did I miss something in configuration? The hardware should be fine, because when I had Windows installed on this machine, the game worked perfectly. Latest patch is already installed.
Thanks for any help in advance.

Zeldor January 30th, 2009 10:39 PM

Re: Dom3 runs slow on Linux
 
3D drivers?

Thilock_Dominus January 31st, 2009 12:53 AM

Re: Dom3 runs slow on Linux
 
Which video card do you have?
Code:

lspci | grep VGA
Which driver and version?

What about other 3D apps, how are they running?

Aezeal January 31st, 2009 12:57 AM

Re: Dom3 runs slow on Linux
 
just run windows.. works great for me for everything :D

Thilock_Dominus January 31st, 2009 01:50 AM

Re: Dom3 runs slow on Linux
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Aezeal (Post 670860)
just run windows.. works great for me for everything :D

Never works for me ;)

Dedas January 31st, 2009 02:17 AM

Re: Dom3 runs slow on Linux
 
He he he...

llamabeast January 31st, 2009 05:07 AM

Re: Dom3 runs slow on Linux
 
Dom3 runs beautifully on Ubuntu for me (and indeed is written on Linux), so it certainly should be possible to get it working smoothly.

Dedas January 31st, 2009 05:10 AM

Re: Dom3 runs slow on Linux
 
I run it smooth as silk in Fedora 10. You've got to make sure you have right drivers installed of course, but that applies to windows as well.

ramarren January 31st, 2009 05:49 AM

Re: Dom3 runs slow on Linux
 
Works perfectly for me on Gentoo on a not-very-fast laptop with integrated Intel Graphics. So, as the posters above say, it is probably drivers.

lch January 31st, 2009 07:30 AM

Re: Dom3 runs slow on Linux
 
lspci doesn't need to be part of the standard tools, I think.

Festin, run
Code:

glxinfo | grep render
in a Terminal.

Does it tell you that you are using "direct rendering", yes or no?

Jagdpanther January 31st, 2009 10:36 AM

Re: Dom3 runs slow on Linux
 
Assuming it is an OpenGL issue, try running glxgears and take a look at the FPS count after about 10 seconds. After installing gentoo, the default video driver for my Nvidia card was the 'nv' driver and it had a dismal frame rate. (Actually, I don't think 'nv' even worked on my latest graphics card.) After switching to the proprietary Nvidia driver, 'nvidia' the glx reported a frame rate many times faster than the 'nv' driver rate.

Also, in Dom 3, try lowering some of the video preferences.

Dedas January 31st, 2009 12:09 PM

Re: Dom3 runs slow on Linux
 
ATI card owners should get the fglrx driver.

Ornedan January 31st, 2009 03:42 PM

Re: Dom3 runs slow on Linux
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Dedas (Post 670967)
ATI card owners should get the fglrx driver.

Not necessary. My old laptop had an ATI card and ran Dom3 quite fine with the "ati" driver.

Though the fglrx driver is probably faster. Problem is that it's also rather less stable.

lch January 31st, 2009 03:46 PM

Re: Dom3 runs slow on Linux
 
Same here, I'm using the radeon driver, not fglrx. Running fine.
If it says that you're using the MESA software driver / indirect rendering, you have trouble.

Dedas January 31st, 2009 04:26 PM

Re: Dom3 runs slow on Linux
 
I agree, fglrx may not be the perfect choice, especially for legacy cards. If you have a more recent card however (I have a HD4850) it should be perfectly stable. At least I haven't run into any problem what so ever.

Festin February 2nd, 2009 04:04 PM

Re: Dom3 runs slow on Linux
 
Thanks for advice, everyone, this community is really nice and helpful :) For now, I decided I need Windows as second OS anyway, so I installed Dominions there, and it solved the problem for me :)


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