Problem Playing Demo

[alphalon]

I just recently downloaded the Dominions 3 demo for linux. I ran the installer, and everything turned out find, but when I ran "dom3demo" all that happened was that a window opened up that said "Please wait", and then it immediatley closes. The output from the terminal said "Error: Rage 128 timed out... exiting". What does this mean, and how can I fix it so I can play the demo?

thanks.

[lch]

Do you have DRM/DRI enabled and working? Type "glxinfo | grep render" in a shell window. If it says "direct rendering: No" then you haven't.

[alphalon]

It says yes.

I tried running it again and it said

"unix_connect: can't connect to server (unix:/tmp/ksocket-alphalon/alphalon-desktop.site-0e2f-468b8286)"

Any idea what that means?

[Ironhawk]

Might be that the game is trying to connect to a company server? Presumably as some sort of security measure I would guess. But then... you wouldnt think that would be neccessary in a demo? Dunno.

[alphalon]

I fixed the socket problem, but my stupid graphics card hates this game.

[Kristoffer O]

You can probably set a lot of the video preferences to low, or run without background, but that is a bit unappealing http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

Hmm... I doubt it your problem, but its a quick thing to try.
Try the --noglext switch. When my graphics hated it, that was the blanket tweak that fixed everything.

[llamabeast]

Have you made sure you've installed all the latest drivers for your video card on linux?

For me (also using linux) it was an unplayable clunky mess until I installed drivers from nVidia, since when it's been smooth as anything.

The game is written on linux by the way, so the platform's well supported.