If you have a dedicated graphic card you could try to type "DRI_PRIME=1 start.sh" in the Terminal (when you are in the game folder). This forces the program to use the graphic card instead of the Intel/AMD graphic.

Good luck!

OK, I just played it for an hour on my mid-range computer with two cases:

- Tiny map but with well developed cities (from the tutorial)
- Big map with small villages (beginning of the freeplay mode)

Naturally, the most demanding would have been a big map with big cities but I'm not there yet :o)

So, overall, it's what I expected (I haven't got Cities Skyline to compare) thus with a stationary camera, all vehicles animations are smooth. Now if you mix zooming/dezooming coupled with scrolling the camera, you'll of course get some stutterings as the objects models need to load and be rendered. This is the kind of thinh you don't necessarly notice in games like GTA because the speed of your character is not as fast as going wild with your mouse/camera in a city builder.

Personally, I don't mind as I play those kind of games in a chillout way (most on the time it's on pause so I can take the time to make decisions and do some layout).

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Quick impression on the game itself:

From what I've played so far and being a fan of Transport Tycoon for more than 20 years, it really feels like we finally a have a decent 3d successor. I'll play further to confirm but I doubt it will go wrong afterwards.

You got Team Fortress 2 from GOG? HOW?!
=P

Nice to hear that, I planned on starting next week :)

I just had a quick look & it seems to work ok in Mint 18. It's possible that one or more of the bundled libraries isn't getting along with Mint 17.3, but I don't have it installed on any systems to test atm... you could try moving some of the bundled libraries out of the way (and installing them from the repositories if they're not already installed on your system) to see if that makes any difference.

I'm having a great time with TF. Already put 12 hours into the game, and I just barely passed the Panama Canal scenario. I'm actually really enjoying the campaign so far, and the gameplay is much improved over TF. It still has some quirks, but they're fairly easy to adjust to. Definitely a very worthy purchase to me, and I can see myself playing TF for quite a while. :)

Is there any point in playing the campaign?

I just dived straight into the freeplay mode (and greatly enjoy it) and didn't even bother with the scenarios. :o)

It looks pretty but is incredibly shallow. There's a point in the 3rd? campaign bit with the two bridges where steel production almost shuts down no matter how much you feed it. Much of the entire iron/coal production line shuts down after you build the 2nd bridge. One of the medals is to sell a million in tools. They are made with steel. You can see where this slows to a crawl and you start bleeding money because you've got enough vehicles running to handle 4 times the production that used to be going. Production makes no sense.

Just play OpenTTD.

Well, the first American scenario was a bit of a bore, but the ones after that I found pretty fun so far. It's kind of a mix of freeplay and goal-oriented. I'm also just trying to ease myself back into the game a bit. A definite plus to the campaign is that it features unique maps with stuff you wouldn't usually see in freeplay. Take the Panama mission, for example. The player's ultimate goal is to lug off stone from the dig site. As more and more material is removed you see sections of the Panama Canal being dug out in stages. Granted, it's nothing super special, but it does add a neat little touch to it.

That looks interesting, I might try it tomorrow then ;)

To all Linux players that couldn't run the game cause of crash to desktop issue. The last patch has fixed it and I can confirm that the game now runs problem free.