Am Samstag, 14. Februar 2004 23:38 schrieb Daniel Kasak: > Jacek Popławski wrote: > >On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 07:38:58PM +1100, Daniel Kasak wrote: > >>Just downloaded the UT2004 demo, and tried it out under > >> XFree86-4.3.99.902. I'm pleasantly surprised. > >>It runs quite nicely, > > > >What about speed? On my R200 (Athlon 1800 XP, low settings) it is slow > > like hell. What is your hardware and settings? > > The menu animations ( the background scrolling text ) is a little jerky > compared to Windows. Yeah, the game also runs slower than under Windows > - I've got a Windows box wth an Athlon 1800 XP and a Geforce 2 MX, and > it performs considerably better. I expected this after reading the bit > about the game being designed for D3D, and the OpenGL renderer being > unsupported ( under Windows ). Unfortunate, but I suppose they have > their reasons. Maybe ( hopefully ) performance will improve. Anyway, > it's certainly not slow as hell. It's respectable - just not silky > smooth. It's certainly better than nothing :) If enough people use the > Linux client, maybe for UT2005 they will say that the D3D renderer is > unsupported and only included in case your OpenGL drivers suck! > > I've got an Athlon 2100 XP, a Radeon 64MB DDR ( R100 ), and > XFree86-4.3.99.902: > > OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Radeon 20030328 AGP 4x > x86/MMX+/3DNow!+/SSETCL > OpenGL version string: 1.2 Mesa 5.0.2 > > My game settings are whatever the defaults are. I can't read any of the > menus, so I haven't bothered screwing with anything ( apart from invert > mouse ... I made a point of finding that ). > > Maybe you should try a snapshot of the new XFree86?
Try with latest DRI-Devel (new "revolutionary" lighting). But sadly your r100 wouldn't be much faster with it. r200+ are. Maybe you test the S3TC patch, too ;-) Greetings, Dieter ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id56&alloc_id438&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel