Very poor performance under Linux

[PhilD]

I tried playing with the command-line switches, and nothing seems to make things better. The -x switch does make graphics faster, but then the terrain doesn't show up at all during battles (I get a few unit sprites on a black background), and main screen display is messed up.

[Jamie]

Has this been resolved? I note this thread is 6 months old. I have the identical to problem to Chazar (above, who happily resolved my dom2 issue).

[hnchrist3]

You do not state your hardware, and "running Linux" is like saying "I have something 'green.'" There are a lot of green things. Be specific about hardware and versions.

I personally have had no trouble at all with Linux.
[I run a dual-processor {which makes no difference to DOM3 as it it is not hyperthreaded} machine at 2 GHz with 1 GB of memory. (Note that I went from 512MB to 1GB and DOM3 did not change.). It is 9 years old and still serves all my needs.]

If I may suggest, your video card is very old and cannot handle the bandwidth.

Send me a personal note [hnc3@wb4me.com] and I will try to resolve your problem. You must include EVERYTHING I need to know, about your hardware, and Linux versions.

[Right now I am running ubuntu 7.04; after switching from Mandrake 2007. Both of those ran DOM3 with no problems or slowdowns.]

[Gandalf Parker]

Ubuntu is "home" to Dom3 if that helps. Thats what its developed on.

[Jamie]

Hi,

Thanks for the offer, I did not provide details as chazar had previously solved this for Dom2 as he exactly the same problem and it is specified in detail on a previous post cross linked from this forum.

In summary, I'm running SUSE Linux 10.1 on an oldish ACER laptop (Travelmate 800) with a ATI radeon 9000. With Dom2 I had erratic errors but chazar sorted this out for me some time back.

See post #459277

He mentioned at that time that this solution did NOT work for Dom3, and since I am considering buying a copy I wanted to know if this was still the case or if a solution had been found.

[Chazar]

Jamie said:He mentioned at that time that this solution did NOT work for Dom3, and since I am considering buying a copy I wanted to know if this was still the case or if a solution had been found.

Uh, that was ages ago, when I shortly wanted to take a peek at the first available Dom3-Demo. Unfortunately I vowed that I won't play Dom3 (nor any other time-consuming PC-games) until my PhD-Thesis is finished, so I have not tried again since. Sorry for not being able to offer any help, but I know that the ATI Linux drivers have quite improved since (DualHead, Suspend, etc.), so it might be worth to give it another try with the lastest ATI Driver and the lates Dom3-Demo:

Download the ATI unified driver binary executable from the ATI webpage, run, select Distribution Specific RPM Generation and generate appropriate RPM package, install RPM, run aticonfig (IMPORTANT! It is best to use the option which allows it to reinitialize your /etc/X11/xorg.conf entirely from scratch and then manually merge specific settings by hand from the backup of your original xorg.conf. Chose Single-Head setting first, for in earlier times I sometimes had problems with 3D stuff in DualHead mode. aticonfig --help explains quite a lot of stuff. E.g. check with "aticonfig --query-monitor" whether only one head is enabled or whether the VGA-connector is live in clone mode, etc.), restart X-server, check that the commandline tools "fglrxinfo" and "glxinfo" do not print "MESA" anywhere. Rinse and repeat these steps whenever you use Yast-Online-Update updates the kernel. That's all that I can offer right now, sorry. I'll be back to Dom3 in a year, hopefully earlier... [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Cold.gif[/img]

[Kristoffer O]

> That's all that I can offer right now, sorry. I'll be back to Dom3 in a year, hopefully earlier...

YOu are welcome when you do