Help please Glest 3.2.x hammers cpu on Ubunto 9.04 but is fine of Ubuntu 7.10

[cogvos]

Hi,

1st post here and well I am *stuck*.

Can anyone suggest why glest hammers the cpu (100%) when running under Ubuntu 9.4 but is fine under 7.10? I want to get rid of the older install, but can't get glest to work properly.

I have tried the package that came with 9.04, the package that is on this forum and a clean compile, all with the the same effect. The symptoms of this processor overload are choppy sound and graphics, but why is it so processor intensive, and why on 9.04? I'm only running at 640*480 the processor is an AMD 3200+ (64 bit) but I am running a 32 bit compile and the graphics card is a Nvidia 9500

Baffled.

<Edit>
Darn, sorry just noticed that someone else has posted the same problem - sorry to duplicate - looks like it is some kind of glitch in this version of Ubuntu? Has anyone got things working on 9.04?

[-Archmage-]

Well, I downloaded it from Synaptic File Manager.
Although the AI can't seem to play Magic well at all.
I'd recommend upgrading to 9.10.
And probably using a 64-bit version of Glest would help as well.

[titi]

@cogvos: Do other 3d-games work fine for you?
Something like nexuiz, alien arena or ut2004?

[-Archmage-]

I just found your solution!
My secondary computer running on 9.04 coudn't run Glest well at all, and neither could our main computer(Kubuntu 9.10), but I ran into an application on my CPU that scans your hardware and recommends drivers, I started that application it scanned my computer, and game me a Windows with a few options in it, and two different drivers to choose from, I clicked on the best one, clicked activate driver, and it activated it, and told me I had to restart my CPU, and when came back up Glest worked so good.