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[mlai023]

I have DF installed on both the Slackware and Windows XP partitions of my laptop. On the Windows partition, DF works fine. On the Linux portion, it runs far too slow to be usable. From the time I first see the dwarves hauling the "TOADY THE GREAT PRODUCTION" or whatever it says during the intro splash, it takes between 2 and 3 minutes for them to go finish.

I believe I have all of the packages I need (SDL 1.2+, SDL_image, libgl, libglu, and GTK 2+). When I first tried to run 40d13, I got an error about not having libtiff.so.4, so I made a symlink with that name pointing to libtiff.so.3. I hear this is a pretty crappy way to fix the problem, but I don't understand some of the other solutions I'm seeing online. However, I initially installed 40d9, and it ran fine without libtiff.so.4, although it was still extremely slow, so I don't think this is the problem.

Any advice?

[Footkerchief]

Post about it in this thread so the 40d# developers can help you out.

[Corona688]

I believe I have all of the packages I need (SDL 1.2+, SDL_image, libgl, libglu, and GTK 2+). When I first tried to run 40d13, I got an error about not having libtiff.so.4, so I made a symlink with that name pointing to libtiff.so.3. I hear this is a pretty crappy way to fix the problem, but I don't understand some of the other solutions I'm seeing online.

It's a debian thing, I hear.  they call libtiff.so.3 libtiff.so.4 for reasons nobody quite understands, which screws up linking with the outside universe.  Its actually the same version hence safe.