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Article #12Re: Quake3 + XFree86-4.0.3 + Voodoo3 = Death Slow
From: Philip Willoughby
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 15:12
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 15:12
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Today, Charles Fultz wrote: >"Mjx2001" <mjx2001@lineone.net> writes: > >> "Charles Fultz" <fultz@cs.purdue.edu> wrote in message >> news:wmelu9xkf9.fsf@phoenix.cs.purdue.edu... >> > I'm having a bit of trouble getting Quake3Arena to play at an >> > acceptable speed. My setup is as follows: >> > CPU: dual PII-overdrives 333MHz >> >> Quake 3 Arena does not use dual CPU systems, so the second CPU is >> useless... >> Also, a P2 333 overdrive is prehistoric and nowhere near minimum >> requirements. > >Mjx2001, are you on crack!? First of all, YES, Q3A DOES support dual >procs. Check out this DOCUMENTED command-line option: >Flag Description >---- ------------ >r_smp Setting this to "1" enables dual CPU support for the Quake3 > rendering/graphics engine. Note that your graphics card > drivers and operating system must support smp. Last time I tried this, it failed. They may have fixed it in newer drivers/point release. That was on dual-celeron 400s with voodoo3s. Regards, Philip Willoughby -- echo bzidd@nfo.ho.co.se | tr "bizndfohces" "pwgd9ociaku"
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