Dom3 runs slow on Linux

[Festin]

Hello. I just tried to install Dominions 3 on my new Debian system, and it works fine, except very slowly. Did I miss something in configuration? The hardware should be fine, because when I had Windows installed on this machine, the game worked perfectly. Latest patch is already installed.
Thanks for any help in advance.

[Zeldor]

3D drivers?

[Thilock_Dominus]

Which video card do you have?
lspci | grep VGA

Which driver and version?

What about other 3D apps, how are they running?

[Aezeal]

just run windows.. works great for me for everything :D

[Thilock_Dominus]

just run windows.. works great for me for everything :D

Never works for me ;)

[Dedas]

He he he...

[llamabeast]

Dom3 runs beautifully on Ubuntu for me (and indeed is written on Linux), so it certainly should be possible to get it working smoothly.

[Dedas]

I run it smooth as silk in Fedora 10. You've got to make sure you have right drivers installed of course, but that applies to windows as well.

[ramarren]

Works perfectly for me on Gentoo on a not-very-fast laptop with integrated Intel Graphics. So, as the posters above say, it is probably drivers.

[lch]

lspci doesn't need to be part of the standard tools, I think.

Festin, run glxinfo | grep render in a Terminal.

Does it tell you that you are using "direct rendering", yes or no?

[Jagdpanther]

Assuming it is an OpenGL issue, try running glxgears and take a look at the FPS count after about 10 seconds. After installing gentoo, the default video driver for my Nvidia card was the 'nv' driver and it had a dismal frame rate. (Actually, I don't think 'nv' even worked on my latest graphics card.) After switching to the proprietary Nvidia driver, 'nvidia' the glx reported a frame rate many times faster than the 'nv' driver rate.

Also, in Dom 3, try lowering some of the video preferences.

[Dedas]

ATI card owners should get the fglrx driver.

[Ornedan]

ATI card owners should get the fglrx driver.Not necessary. My old laptop had an ATI card and ran Dom3 quite fine with the "ati" driver.

Though the fglrx driver is probably faster. Problem is that it's also rather less stable.

[lch]

Same here, I'm using the radeon driver, not fglrx. Running fine.
If it says that you're using the MESA software driver / indirect rendering, you have trouble.

[Dedas]

I agree, fglrx may not be the perfect choice, especially for legacy cards. If you have a more recent card however (I have a HD4850) it should be perfectly stable. At least I haven't run into any problem what so ever.

[Festin]

Thanks for advice, everyone, this community is really nice and helpful :) For now, I decided I need Windows as second OS anyway, so I installed Dominions there, and it solved the problem for me :)