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Article #13Re: Quake3 + XFree86-4.0.3 + Voodoo3 = Death Slow
From: Crap Name [AGQx]
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 15:37
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 15:37
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The prob is caused by the 3dfx driver not supporting SMP. -- ... "Philip Willoughby" <pgw99@doc.ic.ac.uk> wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.32.0105021611080.30654-100000@pub.doc.ic.ac.uk... > 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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 101ac7,526427bb38243f2e X-Google-Attributes: gid101ac7,public X-Google-Thread: 104191,526427bb38243f2e X-Google-Attributes: gid104191,public X-Google-Thread: f906c,526427bb38243f2e X-Google-Attributes: gidf906c,public X-Google-Thread: 1103af,526427bb38243f2e X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-02 08:45:02 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!212.74.64.35!colt.net!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!leggatt.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Crap Name [AGQx]" <warren@NOSPAM.leggatt.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.slackware,3dfx.glide.linux,alt.games.quake3,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Quake3 + XFree86-4.0.3 + Voodoo3 = Death Slow Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 16:37:29 +0100 Message-ID: <988818270.23939.0.nnrp-10.c1ed5d97@news.demon.co.uk> References: <wmelu9xkf9.fsf@phoenix.cs.purdue.edu> <teuacbq3vvrk38@corp.supernews.co.uk> <wmoftbx57l.fsf@phoenix.cs.purdue.edu> <Pine.LNX.4.32.0105021611080.30654-100000@pub.doc.ic.ac.uk> Reply-To: "Crap Name [AGQx]" <warren@NOSPAM.leggatt.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: leggatt.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: leggatt.demon.co.uk:193.237.93.151 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 988818270 nnrp-10:23939 NO-IDENT leggatt.demon.co.uk:193.237.93.151 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Lines: 43