What causes glest to run slow?

[Gabbe]

The title explains it, but seriously, how come the settlers 7 run FASTER than glest when TS7 has WAY more eyecandy?

[John.d.h]

Glest runs alright for me on Windows, but on Ubuntu it's like molasses going uphill in January.

[zombiepirate]

Glest runs alright for me on Windows, but on Ubuntu it's like molasses going uphill in January.

That's generally a graphics drivers problem. The open source drivers that ship with Ubuntu aren't as good as the proprietary ones.

[Yggdrasil]

Glest runs alright for me on Windows, but on Ubuntu it's like molasses going uphill in January.

That's generally a graphics drivers problem. The open source drivers that ship with Ubuntu aren't as good as the proprietary ones.

Yep, you probably got software rendering because your driver has no 3d acceleration.

And what exactly is slow in glest? It does not use multiple threads, so no use of multi cores, and it's 3d engine isn't as much optimized as commercial games. But i doubt that todays computers have problems running glest.

[Gabbe]

i mean that commercial games run at 60 fps were glest takes down to around 30, atleast on only one GPU, and if there is only one core use...oh well, then i know because my new motherboard can`t overclock and for some starnge reason i have six cores eacht at 800 MHZ and then it isn`t weird that it sowed down...Multi threading would be good right? SINCE THE GAME IS NOT MUCH gpu Intense...?