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Article #5Re: Quake3 + XFree86-4.0.3 + Voodoo3 = Death Slow
From: Philip Willoughby
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 14:46
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 14:46
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Today, Charles Fultz wrote: >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 >RAM: 384MB >Video: 3Dfx Voodoo3 3000 PCI >Disk: 18GB IBM SCSI (40MB/sec) 7200RPM >Kernel: 2.4.3 >X: XFree86-4.0.3 w/ tdfx driver and DRI and GLX modules > >The game looks fine, but the response is horrible. I get anywhere >from 2-10 secs/frame. That's right secs/frame, not frames/sec. >I get the same results playing as a user or root. >Can anyone help me out here? I know I should be getting like anywhere >from 30-50 frames/sec. enter \com_hunkmegs 192 also send us the output of glxinfo and lsmod Regards, Philip Willoughby -- echo bzidd@nfo.ho.co.se | tr "bizndfohces" "pwgd9ociaku"
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