What is Dominions II?

[alexti]

Arralen said:
There is an issue with DOM2, SDL, OpenGL and ATI cards:

There is an issue with OpenGL and ATI cards, Dom2 is not the first and is not the Last game that works poorly on ATI, actually, is there any OpenGL game that works well on ATI? I believe there were some non-ATI OpenGL ATI drivers around, which were working better than original ones.

[Cainehill]

Gandalf Parker said:

Well he mentioned keypresses. I think that the keypresses used originally were the ones that would work standard across windows, mac, linux and solaris. As it is they are already sliding into ones which dont carry over well into all of the platforms which slows down getting patches and new demos done.

The up/down arrows are already used in other portions of the interface, so it's not that the keypresses aren't standard across the platforms. (And yes, I've programmed X for many years on *nixes, and know what a PITA many of the keys are.) But while it's possible to scroll through commanders, and to scroll the map, it isn't possible to scroll through the spells in the research screen, or the spell scripting screen, or through the commanders in the troop deployment screen.

The entire spell list section - having the spells in a sane order has nothing to do with the multiple platforms. But as Sheap said, we don't want to turn this thread into a rant.