Is OpenGL required ?

[B0rsuk]

Hey.

It was possible to play Dominions2 without hardware acceleration. You just missed some animations and couldn't view battle replays.
Recently, my video card (Geforce2 MX 400) started suffering from old age afflictions. With OpenGL enabled, it occasionally freezes my linux box.Once that happens, it freezes over and over, until I turn my machine off for a couple of minutes and let it cool down.
So I switched the driver from 'nvidia' back to 'nv.

Can I still play Dom3demo without OpenGL ? I thought I could, but it segfaults with OpenGLish message.
I searched dominions folders for any kind of documentation, but there's no info about this kind of stuff.

I'm not going to buy a placeholder AGP video card just to play Dominions. I wait for Enemy Territory:Quake Wars, you see. And there are other heavy weight games coming to Linux, too, like Penumbra. So I really need the money for big hardware.

If there's no way to play Dom3 till ET:QW, I'll probably buy the 2 games at the same time. I'd be stuck with Linley's Dungeon Crawl for several months.