gameplay very choppy in natty

[Sean Fitzpatrick]

Binary package hint: lbreakout2

I've been playing this game since Ubuntu 7.10 (on an older machine with much worse specs) without much in the way of problems. Since switching to 11.04 (clean install) the game has become unplayable. When there is not much going on (one ball in play, no power-ups falling down) gameplay is OK. Once there are several balls in play, power-ups in use, etc (anything that increases the graphics demand) it starts getting very choppy, as if there are a lot of dropped frames, and it becomes impossible to keep track of the ball.
The game worked fine in Ubuntu 10.10, and my hardware hasn't changed (Core2Duo, 2GB RAM, AMD Firestream with proprietary drivers), so I don't know what the difference is. It's not that Unity is using up more resources, because I had the same problem using Ubuntu Classic.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: lbreakout2 2.6.1-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon May 16 17:20:51 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lbreakout2
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Rich Hart (sirwizkid)]

I have a fairly recent video card, fast cpu and memory, and yet this game is not playable any more. I've played it for years on this system.