Same Problem here!

I also got a hint from GE to upgrade and did it. Until then it ran fine.
After that it hangs at the splash screen. A kill (-TERM) is still recognized and GE terminates as it should with the TERM signal.

I then updated drivers (ATI Radeon x600, driver 8.29.6, SuSE 10.1 x86_64), the System (from SuSE 10.0 to 10.1), etc. No succes. No errors displayed, etc. So it is hard to find out whats the reason for the hang.

I tried around a lot, but still do not have an Idea. Software like bzflag runs fine, but the framerate with fgl_glxgears dropped fromm 700 fps to 200fps with the newer drivers.

I also tried the previous GE version 4.0.1563, but this also does the same.

Hopefully someone finds the reason. I'll keep searchning ..