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Old August 20th, 2004, 07:36 AM
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Default Re: What is Dominions II?

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Pickles said:
...why is the thing so resource intensive?

I dont think it is: I am running it on a 600Mhz Athlon machine with a GeForce2MX under Windows, which is considered pretty old and unusable for contemporary games by most of my friends, yet I am comfortably running Dom2 with high-quality graphic settings (not highest, but high)...

I guess the problem lies that most systems are not equipped with sensible OpenGL drivers. The game was unplayable-slow on my 1,8GHz Intel Laptop with ATI Radeon graphics, until I installed some freeware-third-party-drivers which were mentioned in this forum somewhere. Now it runs smoothly under the highest settings under windows! I really just changed the driver...

Unfortunately, I didnt manage to install any suitable drivers under Linux to play Dom2, so I need to reboot all the time: I am doing my work with Linux and only use Windows on the Laptop for games, not that I am currently playing anything else than Dom2...this is really odd considering that the game was written under/for Linux!!!
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