Hi! I have installed Spring engine, and it works well in the beginning of the game, but as the game progresses, it becomes unplayable. I have 99% CPU load when others have only 17-20% and even mouse stops moving after all. I have reduced max particles number to only 100 but this does not help.
I have desktop Core 2 Duo 2Gb RAM and OpenSUSE 11.2 64-bit.
Hello Ansus,
First of all we need a lot more information.
Do you use KDE or GNOME?
Do you have desktop effects enabled?
Which video card do you have? And which driver do you use for it?
Could you post the output when you run the game?
Are you running it fullscreen?
Does this happen with other games?
Best of luck!
Do you use KDE or GNOME?
Gnome
Do you have desktop effects enabled?
No
Which video card do you have? And which driver do you use for it?
Nvidia GeForce 8500GT, driver 195.36.15
Are you running it fullscreen?
Yes.
Does this happen with other games?
I never encountered such slowness. All other games remain playable and work well.
Hello Ansus,
Thanks for the information.
You could try to run it in windowed mode.
Sometimes adding your user to the video and game group helps.
To do go to Yast->Security And Users->User and Group Management.
Select your user and click on edit. Go to the tab “details”.
On the right you’ll see a list with “Additional Groups”.
Select the games and video group and click OK.
I assume you hadn’t had time to do this.
But don’t forget it!
Good luck!
You could try to run it in windowed mode.
Sometimes adding your user to the video and game group helps.
To do go to Yast->Security And Users->User and Group Management.
Select your user and click on edit. Go to the tab “details”.
On the right you’ll see a list with “Additional Groups”.
Select the games and video group and click OK.
Neither helped 
I assume you hadn’t had time to do this.
But don’t forget it!
Here is the log of the first few seconds of the game: http://arxiv.hotbox.ru/spring.log
As the game continued I got 77% CPU load when some other people still had 6-7% load.
Hello Ansus,
Sad to hear it didn’t work.
Nothing seems wrong when looking at your log-file.
I’m afraid I don’t know what’s wrong.
Maybe updating to a newer version of Spring helps?
The very best of luck!
It’s the same for me, I’m on openSuse 11.1 with an GeForce 8800GT using the NVidia drivers. It used to work just fine in the past, but went slow at some point.