On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 23:59:51 -0600
Vincent Danen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Found something else that worked pretty good... I documented it on
> the wiki.
>
> Went from 320FPS to about 2200FPS... much nicer. EQ runs pretty good
> in winex now, and NWN looked pretty good for the 10s before i
o set it up as a server on linux, but I suspect
> that a bit of searching on google would remedy that.
>
>
> regards
>
>
> Franki
>
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jack Coates
> Sent: Saturday, 28 June
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Sent: Saturday, 28 June 2003 12:02 PM
To: Mandrake Expert List
Subject: Re: [expert] radeon 8500
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 23:33, Vincent Danen wrote:
...
> You know, I may actually have to try tuxracer out... truth be told, I
> haven't given it a go
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 23:33, Vincent Danen wrote:
...
> You know, I may actually have to try tuxracer out... truth be told, I
> haven't given it a go once. But Frozen Bubble should be cool, although it
> ran quite nicely before... I can't imagine it taking advantage of too much
> 3D accel.
>
FB
On Thu Jun 26, 2003 at 11:14:11PM +1000, John Haywood wrote:
> > Anyways, doesn't matter. I've had nothing but problems with this radeon
> > under Mandrake so I pulled it out. I've got better things to do with my
> > time than muck around with proprietary drivers that need 5% skill 45% luck
> >
On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 02:09 am, Vincent Danen wrote:
> Anyways, doesn't matter. I've had nothing but problems with this radeon
> under Mandrake so I pulled it out. I've got better things to do with my
> time than muck around with proprietary drivers that need 5% skill 45% luck
> and 50% vo0doo to m
On Wed Jun 25, 2003 at 02:35:52PM +0100, Mark Watts wrote:
> I've been playing one fo the betas of the NWN linux client for quite some time
> now, with no issues at all but this_is_ using the nVidia binary drivers
> and a GeForce 4 Ti4200...
I had heard bad reports with ATI cards during the
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I've been playing one fo the betas of the NWN linux client for quite some time
now, with no issues at all but this_is_ using the nVidia binary drivers
and a GeForce 4 Ti4200...
Mark.
> On Tue Jun 24, 2003 at 07:44:31PM +1000, John Haywood wrot
On Tuesday 24 June 2003 02:20, James Sparenberg wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 22:59, Vincent Danen wrote:
> > On Mon Jun 23, 2003 at 06:10:59PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote:
> > > > With this vesa driver, are you getting a decent FPS? I'm (currently)
> > > > getting 320FPS and that really re
On Tue Jun 24, 2003 at 07:44:31PM +1000, John Haywood wrote:
> > Looks pretty similar. I have to use the binary drivers tho... no two ways
> > around that. Oh well.. not that big of a deal. At least now I've got a
> > decent resolution... =) Getting the games to behave is a completely
> > diff
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 04:02 pm, Vincent Danen wrote:
[SNIP & cut to the chase!]
> Looks pretty similar. I have to use the binary drivers tho... no two ways
> around that. Oh well.. not that big of a deal. At least now I've got a
> decent resolution... =) Getting the games to behave is a complete
On Mon Jun 23, 2003 at 11:20:54PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote:
> > Found something else that worked pretty good... I documented it on the
> > wiki.
>
> Thanks I plan on documenting mine as soon as I can get back into
> it. (Lost IDE on the mainboard due to a bad hdd caddy. UGH.)
Geez.
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 22:59, Vincent Danen wrote:
> On Mon Jun 23, 2003 at 06:10:59PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote:
>
> > > With this vesa driver, are you getting a decent FPS? I'm (currently)
> > > getting 320FPS and that really really bites.
> >
> >Go to the site http://www.retinalburn.ne
On Mon Jun 23, 2003 at 06:10:59PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote:
> > With this vesa driver, are you getting a decent FPS? I'm (currently)
> > getting 320FPS and that really really bites.
>
>Go to the site http://www.retinalburn.net/linux/dri_xv.html and take
> a look at what they have + gat
On Mon Jun 23, 2003 at 11:24:16PM -0400, Robert Crawford wrote:
> > It comes close One question here. What is your monitor. 90% of the
> > X related problems I've found are related to the wrong monitor
> > settings. Also is it correctly detecting the amount of video ram on
> > this card?
>
On Mon Jun 23, 2003 at 05:57:47PM -0700, James Sparenberg wrote:
> > Has anyone gotten this to work with 9.1? I've got a radeon 8500 that I had
> > temporarily put into a machine that just did console, and now I've moved it
> > back to my own machine and I'll be darned if I can make it work prope
On Monday 23 June 2003 20:57, James Sparenberg wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 12:19, Vincent Danen wrote:
> > Has anyone gotten this to work with 9.1? I've got a radeon 8500 that I
> > had temporarily put into a machine that just did console, and now I've
> > moved it back to my own machine and I'
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 15:03, Vincent Danen wrote:
> On Mon Jun 23, 2003 at 05:17:50PM -0400, Charles A Edwards wrote:
>
> > > I'm a total n00b when it comes to X and different cards and even
> > > trying some ATI binary drivers resulted in nothing happening and I've
> > > been told that the 8500 s
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 12:19, Vincent Danen wrote:
> Has anyone gotten this to work with 9.1? I've got a radeon 8500 that I had
> temporarily put into a machine that just did console, and now I've moved it
> back to my own machine and I'll be darned if I can make it work properly. I
> can get 640x
On Mon Jun 23, 2003 at 05:17:50PM -0400, Charles A Edwards wrote:
> > I'm a total n00b when it comes to X and different cards and even
> > trying some ATI binary drivers resulted in nothing happening and I've
> > been told that the 8500 should work "out of the box".
>
> I can not give specific h
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:19:53 -0600
Vincent Danen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm a total n00b when it comes to X and different cards and even
> trying some ATI binary drivers resulted in nothing happening and I've
> been told that the 8500 should work "out of the box".
I can not give speci
On Mon Jun 23, 2003 at 02:50:59PM -0500, Dave Sherman wrote:
> >Has anyone gotten this to work with 9.1? I've got a radeon 8500 that I had
> >temporarily put into a machine that just did console, and now I've moved it
> >back to my own machine and I'll be darned if I can make it work properly.
Vincent Danen wrote:
Has anyone gotten this to work with 9.1? I've got a radeon 8500 that I had
temporarily put into a machine that just did console, and now I've moved it
back to my own machine and I'll be darned if I can make it work properly. I
can get 640x480 out of it and that's it... I kin
Has anyone gotten this to work with 9.1? I've got a radeon 8500 that I had
temporarily put into a machine that just did console, and now I've moved it
back to my own machine and I'll be darned if I can make it work properly. I
can get 640x480 out of it and that's it... I kinda would like to have
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