21 Mar 11, 05:32AM
Yes, ubuntu packaging is sometimes very annoying in that way - the interlinking dependencies just make it near-to impossible to get what you know you want :-/
Sometimes I've found it can be tricked into not removing a package by simply prepending or adding to the end of your command line the package it's trying to remove .. but that doesn't always work.
Actually, I don't think any of this is going to change performance for you! As long as the game starts and works (even badly) it's got the required libraries.
As long as you're sure - you still haven't given us the "driver:"-lines from your AC-log - that it's using OpenGL (and not mesa!) this is probably all what your GFX-card can give you. It's been a while since I had my 5000-series nvidia card, so I can't remember the fps'es I got from it. You should try the following:
For AC just limit the fps to .. say .. 40: "/maxfps 40" - no quotes - to stabilize it.
Outside AC simply run (from shell) "glxgears -info|grep GL" (again: no quotes) and thus ensure yourself OpenGL is set up for your enviroment .. then double-check the log output of AC to see it's using OpenGL for real too. You should see something like:
Sometimes I've found it can be tricked into not removing a package by simply prepending or adding to the end of your command line the package it's trying to remove .. but that doesn't always work.
Actually, I don't think any of this is going to change performance for you! As long as the game starts and works (even badly) it's got the required libraries.
As long as you're sure - you still haven't given us the "driver:"-lines from your AC-log - that it's using OpenGL (and not mesa!) this is probably all what your GFX-card can give you. It's been a while since I had my 5000-series nvidia card, so I can't remember the fps'es I got from it. You should try the following:
For AC just limit the fps to .. say .. 40: "/maxfps 40" - no quotes - to stabilize it.
Outside AC simply run (from shell) "glxgears -info|grep GL" (again: no quotes) and thus ensure yourself OpenGL is set up for your enviroment .. then double-check the log output of AC to see it's using OpenGL for real too. You should see something like:
[SELECT ALL] Code:
init: gl
Renderer: GeForce 8800 GT/PCI/SSE2 (NVIDIA Corporation)
Driver: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 260.19.06