[Splashscreen loops on Ubuntu 11.10]

That looks like the NVIDIA legacy driver (designed for ancient hardware); the most recent normal (non-legacy) release (290.10) says it still supports GeForce 6800 so you shouldn't need the legacy drivers. Are you able to test with that?

I checked the Additional Drivers and I'm using the latest driver which comes with Ubuntu.

As much as I'd like to try out a different video driver, I'd prefer not to muck around as this is my main desktop as I'm not confident of getting it back if things take a nose dive!

What I might do is wait until April 2012 and before installing the new Ubuntu, try out the graphics driver you've suggested and see if that helps.

[Splashscreen loops on Ubuntu 11.10]

Tried from the terminal "0ad -nosound" and got no sound but no the splashsceen slides even slower that before and is essentially unresponsive (fortunately was able to ssh in and kill the process).

[Splashscreen loops on Ubuntu 11.10]

I'm running on a new (2 year old) desktop so should be fine (in terms of CPU and RAM capacities) and have latest drivers installed. I tried on a crusty laptop and the game played no dramas.

So either the audio is tripping up the video or vice versa...will try the nosound option and get back to you...

[Splashscreen loops on Ubuntu 11.10]

(generated 2011-12-27 23:02:24 UTC)

OS : Linux 3.0.0-14-generic-pae (#23-Ubuntu SMP Mon Nov 21 22:07:10 UTC 2011)

CPU : i686, AMD Athlon II X2 250 Processor (1x2x1), 3.01 GHz

Memory : 4026 MiB; 609 MiB free

Graphics Card : NVIDIA GeForce 6800/PCI/SSE2/3DNOW!

OpenGL Drivers : 2.1.2 NVIDIA 173.14.30; OpenGL 2.1.2 NVIDIA 173.14.30

Video Mode : 1920x1080:24

Sound Card : Unknown

Sound Drivers : Unknown

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SMBIOS:

[Splashscreen loops on Ubuntu 11.10]

Not sure why this is so confusing, so I'll try to explain again...

I run 0AD and get a blank/black screen for a few seconds.

Then the background image appears (couple of ladies, a soldier, etc). The background image is sliding to the left and the music starts with a short burst of noise.

The background image "slides" to the left very slowly and in a blocky way (that is, not smooth). The music seems to start from the beginning and get to a point (say a second in) and then start again, but get further each time.

The UI seems to only respond between audio restarts - making it difficult to move the mouse pointer to the Exit option and then move again to select Yes.

Any ideas? Is there a log file I could look at or be able to run it in debug mode?

[Splashscreen loops on Ubuntu 11.10]

I'm not sure if the main menu is scrolling (too hard to tell), but the background image certainly is. The sound is restarting over and over, getting a little bit ahead each time.

[Splashscreen loops on Ubuntu 11.10]

I installed 0AD via the Ubuntu ppa. I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 and when I launched the game (either via terminal or via Unity launcher) the splashscreen is displayed and slowly scrolls to the left and the sound restarts each time, getting a bit further along.

I can manage to move the mouse so I can exit gracefully.

Here is the output from the terminal...dunno if it helps:

Cache: 200 (total: 4026) MiB
TIMER| InitVfs: 133.863 ms
TIMER| InitScripting: 7.12241 ms
TIMER| CONFIG_Init: 296.697 ms
TIMER| RunHardwareDetection: 48.6041 ms
TIMER| write_sys_info: 23.5588 ms
TIMER| InitRenderer: 141.338 ms
TIMER| ps_console: 29.5665 ms
TIMER| ps_lang_hotkeys: 689.311 us
TIMER| common/setup.xml: 5.98634 ms
TIMER| common/styles.xml: 2.49875 ms
TIMER| common/sprite1.xml: 2.63789 ms
TIMER| common/init.xml: 10.8367 ms
TIMER| common/common_sprites.xml: 2.90493 ms
TIMER| common/common_styles.xml: 339.848 us
TIMER| pregame/sprites.xml: 3.41531 ms
TIMER| pregame/styles.xml: 79.449 us
TIMER| pregame/mainmenu.xml: 21.2789 ms
TIMER| common/global.xml: 403.414 us
SND| alc_init: success, using PulseAudio Default
TIMER| common/setup.xml: 5.98134 ms
TIMER| common/styles.xml: 54.016 us
TIMER| common/sprite1.xml: 3.57396 ms
TIMER| common/common_sprites.xml: 2.26701 ms
TIMER| common/common_styles.xml: 312.728 us
TIMER| msgbox/msgbox.xml: 956.767 us
TIMER| shutdown actor stuff: 1.283 us
TIMER| shutdown TexMan: 7.484 us
TIMER| shutdown Renderer: 1.14114 ms
TIMER| shutdown SDL: 83.9765 ms
TIMER| shutdown UserReporter: 947.608 us
TIMER| shutdown ScriptingHost: 3.53538 ms
TIMER| shutdown ConfigDB: 0.333 us
TIMER| resource modules: 10.217 ms
TIMER TOTALS (9 clients)
-----------------------------------------------------
  tc_dds_transform: 71.345 kc (9x)
  tc_pool_alloc: 2006 kc (246x)
  tc_png_decode: 33.1601 Mc (8x)
  tc_transform: 102.48 kc (3x)
  tc_plain_transform: 20.196 kc (3x)
  tc_linkProgram: 0 c (0x)
  tc_compileShader: 0 c (0x)
  tc_ShaderValidation: 37.9168 Mc (12x)
  xml_validation: 36.3113 Mc (12x)
-----------------------------------------------------
TIMER| shutdown misc: 244.74 us

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Bernard.