Is your Glest sluggish? Solution available! --Linux--

[-Archmage-]

You may notice In the later Ubuntu(and variants), that Glest can run extremely sluggish!
I have integrated graphics, I don't know about other people, so my graphics isn't that good without a good driver, and I ran into a solution, in about 2 minutes!

Solution:

Open the menu.
-Select the "Applications" tab.
--Select the "System" Submenu.
---Select the "Hardware Drivers" application.

It will ask you for the sudo password.
-Enter it.
--Select the "OK" button.

A window will open that says something like: "Scanning for available drivers that match your hardware".
-Wait until that window disappears, and then another window will pop up.
--The window will have a display of available drivers for your system, select the one that says recommended, if none say that, then select the one that looks the best.
---If the recommended one is already active, a green filled in circle will be next to it, if the circle is gray then it is not active.
----After you've selected a driver click "Activate".
-----After you click the activate button, it might tell you to restart your computer.

Restart your computer.

And............YOUR DONE!

Have fun playing Glest!

[softcoder]

In otherwords use the proprietary drivers from nVidia or ATI, not the default built-in drivers in Linux. That applies to all 3Dgames, but especially 3D accelerated games which work much better using native drivers.

[-Archmage-]

Yah, basically.
All 3D games on both my linux computers don't play well at all without using proprietary drivers.
Although as I said, I have integrated graphics, so for you people with graphics cards, you probably have a good driver by default.

[softcoder]

Integrated or not... Linux (out of the box) usually does not come with propietary drivers.. at least in Ubuntu you must explicitly pick it whether you have a dedicated card or Integrated card.

But your comment will likely help a lot of linux users who didn't know to turn on the "restricted drivers" package.