Battery warning suppressed by D2 under XP?

[Chazar]

Stupid me: Installing the new OpenGL Linux drivers from ATI could not work, since they do not support my older but widespread Radeon7500 Mobility...

...on the other hands, the newest OpenSource XFree Drivers are not that bad, provided one enables 3D Acceleration, which is turned off by default in the configuration files of my Linux distribution!

Now Dom2 runs pretty fine with my Linux-Laptop... ...hence hopefully no more Battery-Problems!

(Although textures are much more coarse, which I understand is due to the different drivers, but also the battle grounds have an entirely different color...much darker and greenisher...more menacing somehow...why?)

Chazar,

You seem to have solved your problem (though the solution does seem a bit drastic), but I thought I'd chip in anyway.

I run Dom2 on a Windows based tablet PC when away from home, and when Dom2 is running I do notice that none of the power-management options work (screen blanking, auto-suspend, as well as low-battery warnings). This seems to be the case even when running in Windowed mode.

It is slightly bizarre.

[Chazar]

[in reply to Mark the Merciful:]
...so your observation confirms that Dom2 interferes with the WinXP Power-Management...