character creation menu: very bad performance

[Guenhwyvar]

hello,

its my first post in this forum, because of this, i want to introduce myself (a little bit ;> )

i\'m an inspired rpg-gamer, living in germany and i have played for example: planescape torment,  baldurs gate series, m&m 5-8, icewinddale series, and so on... my job is: computer scientist (btw. sry 4 my bad english..)

this much promising game has an entry in the package tree of mine linux distribution, whereby I also experienced of it.

after installation i\'d run the planeshift executable and here is my problem:

while using the charakter-creation-menu the mouse is moving very slow.. clicking on a button will be noticed some seconds up to minutes later..  
in the last step, before uploading the new charakter, u have to type a password, and because of a very slow noticing of keyboardtyping, i cannot input my password 2 times in a right way.. :-(

has someone knowledge about this performanceproblems while running this game on linux?

I would be very much pleased, if someone me could help.

mfg Guenhwyvar

ps: i\'ve read all the information, offered by the planeshift-homepage and I\'m inspired.

?dit: oh sry, i\'d forgotten to post my system-config:
os: gentoo linux with kernel 2.6.3
hardware: athlon 1.8 xp, radeon 8500, 512 mb ddr-ram, i think with this hardware planeshift should run fast enough, dispite the radeon-driver is slow himself

[Levski]

Hmm I couldn\'t understand the last part about your graphics driver... I once had trouble running Planeshift in Linux myself because of my graphics driver.  It ran way to slowly.  The answer was that my graphics driver wasn\'t properly installed.  I believe the best driver\'s come from the manufacturor\'s website.  You should check to see if you have the correct/latest version of your radeon driver.

[Guenhwyvar]

hi,

thx for answer..

i?ve installed the latest radeon-driver (3.7.0) and in other games it works very well..

did u know the ebuild(entry of portage, paketsystem of gentoo) for planeshift? i had compiled/installed planeshift with all of the ebuilds dependencies.. at present I cannot post them, because i?m @ work, this will be done later

possibly the problem is because of a dependency.

greetz Guenhwyvar

[Xanaroth]

you probably have, but i am still going to ask it just in case:P

Have you run the pssetup file to make sure everything works fine? that the game uses the right screen size, the right driver for you video card etc?