Enemy Territory on my Laptop :(

DizL · Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 11:25 am Post subject: Enemy Territory on my Laptop :(

Hi,

I try to play Enemy Territory on my Laptop - Toshiba - Cel 2,7Ghzm 512Mb Ram Intel 852GM 64 Mb, but the game is very slow

It's 'jumping' all the time on minimum graphic options (640x480 low,low.........) What can I do to speed up my laptop??? Maybe I should reconfigure my X? with xorg to have better performance??? Please help, I have no idea

THNX!!!!!!!
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DizL · Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 10:37 pm Post subject:

(((((( Average 9-10 fps

For example medal of honour runs normally on 800x600 and medium effects
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chINeSe mIDgEts · Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 12:54 am Post subject:

what video chipset/driver are you using?
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GaMMa · l33t Joined: 23 Aug 2002 Posts: 684 Location: USA

Do you have a graphics driver with opengl support? How are your 'glxgears' speed?
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bennettp · Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 6:23 am Post subject:

The biggest problem with 3d games in linux at the moment is the complete lack of decent (read: fast) software opengl support. You will need to find out how to get hardware accelerated opengl working if you want more than a few fps.

Also, 64mb is not much ram in linux, chances are that kde or something else is taking up your memory. After shutting down everything that you don't need (incuding your desktop manager and X session), run "xinit /usr/games/bin/et" (from the console) to start up enemy territory in a dedicated X server, with no window manager.

Finally, enemy territory is much faster in 16 bit mode. If your server uses 24bit mode, copy /etc/X11/xorg.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf-16, and change the DefaultDepth option from 24 to 16 (it's in the Screen section). Then tell xinit to use that config file using "xinit /usr/games/bin/et -- -config xorg.conf-16". If using xfree86, use Xf86Config-4 instead of xorg.conf
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DizL · Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 3:16 pm Post subject:

I'm using i810 driver, the biggest problem is that the game runs great on winshit at 1024x768 high, high 32bit....

hmm

glxgeras - average 505

Any ideas??[/code]
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