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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. |
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3D drivers?
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Which video card do you have?
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lspci | grep VGA What about other 3D apps, how are they running? |
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just run windows.. works great for me for everything :D
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He he he...
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Dom3 runs beautifully on Ubuntu for me (and indeed is written on Linux), so it certainly should be possible to get it working smoothly.
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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.
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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.
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lspci doesn't need to be part of the standard tools, I think.
Festin, run Code:
glxinfo | grep render Does it tell you that you are using "direct rendering", yes or no? |
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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. |
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ATI card owners should get the fglrx driver.
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Though the fglrx driver is probably faster. Problem is that it's also rather less stable. |
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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. |
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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.
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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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