Speed up Haven and Hearth?

[xweetok59]

Now i have a 1.60 ghz intel graphics card mini laptop. Haven and Hearth goes pretty slow. I can't buy a new laptop and a new graphics card wont work, because the graphics card is builded on the motherboard. Maybe still any way to speed it up?

[Darkren]

Latest graphics driver? Lastest java?

[xweetok59]

Will it speed up after i upgraded them?

[Darkren]

Impossible to tell, at least for me. When I first downloaded Dwarf Fortress, it ran at under 1 FPS, even though it was basically text-based graphics. When I upgraded my graphics driver from default Windows 7 installation to its actual driver, the FPS shot up to 40 (or whatever it throttles at). Basically, you'd be surprised what a driver update would do (especially if you never installed one); I can't guarantee it will speed it up, but it's unlikely to do any harm to your PC.

[xweetok59]

My graphics card is up-to-date, and my java is only 0.0.0.2 or something versions older.

[Chakravanti]

Dual boot with Debian man. Ubuntu has the same resource hog issues that windoze does because of so many fucking python apps and Debian still has, of course, the debian package management. I'd really reccomend Slackware with AWM or XFCE but never to a linux newbie. If you're working with 1gig or less of ram though Slackware is Ideal and, unlike Ubuntu, comes with Java setup at install (incl. Sun's EULA).

if you're addicted to the wincrack though I can't help you there. Slackware is the prize peach of linux for reviving old platforms because of it's core-minimalism and console guis for most system projects (updates, repos, etc.) I have it running on an old P3-400mhz emachine with 256mb of ram (which I bought to upgrade it from the 32 it had when it was given to me last year) and it runs pretty well....considering.it does all the web basics like page browsing (chrome), email etc. but I haven't tried flash yet. I'm just saying, with the right software old machines can see new life and power.

[xweetok59]

Does anybody has the ability to translate nerdish to english...? I didn't understand anything.

[loftar]

There is something weird with Intel graphics cards that I haven't managed to get past. The glCopySubImage2D routine runs ridiculously slow on those cards. I think it might be limited to only some Intel cards, but I'm not sure (and I don't know which ones). Those cards don't even have the ability to render to pbuffers. If anyone knows how to actually do off-screen rendering at some kind of close to reasonable speed on such cards, please do tell.

[DigDog]

Isn't installing a whole new OS a bit overkill just to play one specific game?

[xweetok59]

Oh, very fine. I tried reinstalling java, now java is fcked up and i can't run h n h. Please help someone!