Q3 delivers sexy 18 secs per frame!!

[Meester Woowis]

I have found that my quake three delivers an enormous and "phwoar"! eighteen seconds per frame. That's right seconds per frame.

Spec:- SB16 PCI (yeah old tech new card!!)
Athlon 755 (slot) - 384 MB RAM RedHat 7.1. Tried a kernel recompile to the newer 2.4.5 from 2.4.2 (I think) for the sake of trying to get the RW bit working under cdrecord and Gtaoster - didn't work (yeah scsi emultn).
Lost four "OK"'s in boot sequence for bothe old and new kenerls. pants. Now gterm don't work in Gnome, Xterm(colour) is ok though.

Am running with a Voooodoooo 3 PCI. It's probly running it software. So I am looking for a loadable kernel module to help me acheive at least 18 fps? HELP!!!

REgards
The woowis boy

[Meester Woowis]

Note:-
RW bit means RW bit of the CCDRW that i have.

[bwkaz]

It's a 3dfx card. So you need DRI, the only problem is I'm not sure where to get it or how to install it.

You will also need Mesa to get OpenGL working.

(I've been using an nVidia card for as long as I've been using Linux, so I haven't had the opportunity to try DRI or anything like that.)

[ 10 January 2002: Message edited by: bwkaz ]

[Trd79]

Hi there Meester Woowis.

You need to read the 3dfx howto at linuxdoc.org

www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/3Dfx-HOWTO.html (http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/3Dfx-HOWTO.html)

This should tell you everything you need, and where to get it.

Hope this helps :D

[Meester Woowis]

thnakz bwkaz,
thankz tom (trd79)

Meester Woowis

[Meester Woowis]

Checked out the howto. Got all the right files. changed the 2d bit of X to daryll's 2d glide bit. installed the 2d setup program. Ran it. it took a little while. I left it for six houras and it was still taking a littl while. I considered ity hung. I think that as I am using 4.0.0.3 X and not the required 3.3.~.% I think it hung. I don't fancy reverting to a different X. Had Q3 for a monthx and it is so slow even in the menus that I only run it so I can quit it. ie testing changed config. What do I do? Shal I try the MESA thing? It looks like trying the mesa thing requires Daryll's 2d x bit anyway so I'm scuppered either way. Maybe my dodgy recompile was ppooping it up. I think I might try reinstalling RH71 as I cannotthink of anything else.

Woowis boy

[Meester Woowis]

might just hand the voodoo back to my dad (it's his) and buy me an arbitrary Nvidia.

Woowis