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Vandala

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Starfarer Running Horrendously slow on Linux
« on: July 05, 2012, 06:41:34 PM »

If you are experiencing a slow down that makes the game unplayable then you are not alone. (and its not only this game)

However, its not the game itself, I've read its the latest Sun Java update. Just wanted to let you guys know. (it affects all applications that work with java)

I have no idea when this will be solved. Google "slow java on linux" if you want to know more.

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Re: Starfarer Running Horrendously slow on Linux
« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2012, 07:11:44 PM »

Not finding much relevant on google. A solution, however, is simple - just use an older version of Java (1.6 should do), if you're certain that this is what's causing it.
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Re: Starfarer Running Horrendously slow on Linux
« Reply #2 on: July 05, 2012, 09:41:56 PM »

Huh, I wonder if this is why my work computer (Ubuntu 12.04) is running so much slower than my home machine (Ubuntu 10.04) despite being more powerful. I'll try to revert and see what happens. Of course I'll have to do extensive testing. :D
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Re: Starfarer Running Horrendously slow on Linux
« Reply #3 on: July 06, 2012, 04:39:23 AM »

I would first check the drivers of the graphics card actually.
Starfarer comes with it's own jvm, so that should be the same on all machines.
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Re: Starfarer Running Horrendously slow on Linux
« Reply #4 on: July 06, 2012, 08:56:57 AM »

StarFarer runs fine on linux. If you have NVIDIA card with proprietary drivers - enable OpenGL triplebuffering for FPS increase. Also its running equally fast with IcedTea JDK 6.1.11.3 and  Sun JRE 1.6.0.31.
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Re: Starfarer Running Horrendously slow on Linux
« Reply #5 on: July 10, 2012, 12:49:03 AM »

After I updated my distro some time ago, Starfarer was indead very slow. Before the update, the performance was quite reasonable. What solved this little problem for me was update my NVIDIA drivers to the latest/greatest, like Dr.Noid and Vind mentioned.
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