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Article #2Re: Quake3 + XFree86-4.0.3 + Voodoo3 = Death Slow
From: Fredrik Olausson
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 21:36
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 21:36
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I second that - there is something distinctly wrong with the 3dfx drivers. I finally got mine working half-decent, but Unreal Tournament looked like crap because of the 16 bit colordepth the 3dfx driver uses, so I replaced it with an old TNT2 card - less hassle, much more stable, and it renders UT correctly. -Fredrik Charles Wilkins wrote: > > I have seen this exact symptom when software gl is the driver in linux > and in windoze. > > I am leaning towards there being a problem with the 3dfx driver under > X. smp compatibility or not, the 3dfx driver is not working properly. > > Charles Wilkins > > On Wed, 2 May 2001 20:02:29 +0100, "Crap Name [AGQx]" > <warren@NOSPAM.leggatt.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > >I used to run a p2-300 + v3 without much issues. It was in vertex mode and > >at 800*600 but I still managed to get 40-50 fps. The person with his Dual p2 > >setup should have NO problems running Q3. > > > >I still have my V3 in my new Athlon tbrid 750 on a 21" screen and still run > >it at 800*600. Yes the display would be better at a higher resolution but I > >prefer to keep stable at 60fps at all times instead of having the variations > >I get when I run at the higher resolutions.
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