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tba
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 06, 2002 9:48 am    Post subject: series of 3d ?s Reply with quote

there are a few questions here but dont feel like you have to answer all of them...

true or false... in general one gets more fps running games in windows than in linux...

why does hardware acceleration only work as root and how can i correct this?

is having a preemptible kernel bad for game performance?

is there any way to get wolfenstien to run in fullscrean wo/ running it at the desktop's resolution (1024x768) or in a little corner? (quake 3 arena funcitons the same way as wolfenstien in manyinstances)
also concerning wolfenstien: the mose speed is slow and i dont think turning it up in the game helps much if at all. can i turn it up in XFree so it is faster in general?

thanks in advance
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Zu`
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Joined: 26 May 2002
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 06, 2002 9:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

resolution:

Make sure you have the resolutions that you will use in your game are set in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file.

I have something like this:

Code:

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth    24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     24
                Modes     "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection


So by default, my X starts up in 1152x864. But when I run Q3A, I play it in 1024x768 or 800x600 (since I have a crappy system), and that works great. It's fullscreen.


Also, I'm using preempt kernel and I'm not having any trouble with it (so far)

Greets
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id10t
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 06, 2002 1:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

And root-only for 3d went out the window back in '97 or so....
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Joined: 30 May 2002
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 06, 2002 6:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

'in general one gets more fps running games in windows than in linux...'

- true.. windows framerate should be about 5 fps faster in q3a =) BUT games just 'feel' to run smoother under linux (at least on my machine). I get better pings with the linux quake 3 client (usually about 5 - 10 ms !!) and it loads up a lot faster.
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