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by **David J. Toppe** » Fri, 27 Apr 2001 07:49:37

Hi all,

The Quake3 and SOF demos run ridiculously slow on my box. I've got
XF4.0.1 which I thought had "built in" OpenGL acceleration? This is an
upgraded Slackware 7.0 box. I have an ATI Rage Mobility M1. Demos
(eg., Mindrover) work great under Win95.

Regardless, I can barely move the mouse in a manner to simply exit the
game. IE., move mouse ... wait 2 seconds ... move again ... wait to see
if it's where I want it ... move again ...

If anyone has some tips, I'd love to hear about them.

Thanks,

DT
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by **Harri Haata** » Fri, 27 Apr 2001 17:05:31

>The Quake3 and SOF demos run ridiculously slow on my box. I've got

...

You're doind software rendering.
Check guides on dri.sourceforge.net.
I think there's been talk about the mobility chipset, so you might want
to dig out mailinglist archives if they have them.

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by **jhibb..** » Sat, 28 Apr 2001 02:07:33

I have OpenGL with X4.0.1(just got it working yesterday, see other post) and
the ATI Mach64
driver installed, and,
although I don't have Quake or SOF, I have run all the demos, like the
superquadrics
screensaver(which is GL and processor intensive), and they are at least twice
as fast as before. How did you compile X?
I used options that I saw on Linux.com. If you want true hardware
acceleration, X4.0.3
claims to have that, but I haven't even been able to get X4.0.2 working
without trashing
my system!! Needless to say, I am not about to upgrade to X4.0.3 yet.

Justin Hibbits

>Hi all,

>The Quake3 and SOF demos run ridiculously slow on my box. I've got
>XF4.0.1 which I thought had "built in" OpenGL acceleration? This is an
>upgraded Slackware 7.0 box. I have an ATI Rage Mobility M1. Demos
>(eg., Mindrover) work great under Win95.

>Regardless, I can barely move the mouse in a manner to simply exit the
>game. IE., move mouse ... wait 2 seconds ... move again ... wait to see
>if it's where I want it ... move again ...

>If anyone has some tips, I'd love to hear about them.

>Thanks,

>DT
>--
>Technical Director - *ia Center for Computer Music
>http://www.*ia.edu/music/vccm.html

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by **Harri Haata** » Sat, 28 Apr 2001 22:54:40

Quote:>I have OpenGL with X4.0.1(just got it working yesterday, see other post) and
>the ATI Mach64
>driver installed, and,
>although I don't have Quake or SOF, I have run all the demos, like the
>superquadrics
>screensaver(which is GL and processor intensive), and they are at least twice
>as fast as before. How did you compile X?

You just made your software faster. On light apps this is ok. Mach64 has
no GL capabilities.

You won't probably find a machine able to run a textured game like that
with software rendering and do more than maybe 0.1 fps =)

>>The Quake3 and SOF demos run ridiculously slow on my box. I've got
>>XF4.0.1 which I thought had "built in" OpenGL acceleration? This is an
>>upgraded Slackware 7.0 box. I have an ATI Rage Mobility M1. Demos
>>(eg., Mindrover) work great under Win95.

>>Regardless, I can barely move the mouse in a manner to simply exit the
>>game. IE., move mouse ... wait 2 seconds ... move again ... wait to see
>>if it's where I want it ... move again ...

>>If anyone has some tips, I'd love to hear about them.

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by **ad..** » Sat, 28 Apr 2001 23:01:08

>>I have OpenGL with X4.0.1(just got it working yesterday, see other post) and
>>the ATI Mach64
>>driver installed, and,
>>although I don't have Quake or SOF, I have run all the demos, like the
>>superquadrics
>>screensaver(which is GL and processor intensive), and they are at least twice
>>as fast as before. How did you compile X?
> You just made your software faster. On light apps this is ok. Mach64 has
> no GL capabilities.

Yes it does. Through the utah-glx project for XFree86 3.3.6. There is
also a CVS branch of the DRI tree with some support for Mach64
cards. However, it isn't being worked on at the moment.

Adam

by **The.Central.Scrutinizer.wakaw..** » Sat, 28 Apr 2001 23:10:20

>>>I have OpenGL with X4.0.1(just got it working yesterday, see other post) and
>>>the ATI Mach64
>>>driver installed, and,
>>>although I don't have Quake or SOF, I have run all the demos, like the
>>>superquadrics
>>>screensaver(which is GL and processor intensive), and they are at least twice
>>>as fast as before. How did you compile X?

>> You just made your software faster. On light apps this is ok. Mach64 has
>> no GL capabilities.

>Yes it does. Through the utah-glx project for XFree86 3.3.6. There is
>also a CVS branch of the DRI tree with some support for Mach64
>cards. However, it isn't being worked on at the moment.

I've yet to get it to run w/ XF 4.x and ended up reverting to 3.3.6.

by **Harri Haata** » Tue, 01 May 2001 17:48:42

>>>I have OpenGL with X4.0.1(just got it working yesterday, see other post) and
>>>the ATI Mach64
>>>driver installed, and,
>>>although I don't have Quake or SOF, I have run all the demos, like the
>>>superquadrics
>>>screensaver(which is GL and processor intensive), and they are at least twice
>>>as fast as before. How did you compile X?

>> You just made your software faster. On light apps this is ok. Mach64 has
>> no GL capabilities.

>Yes it does. Through the utah-glx project for XFree86 3.3.6. There is

Oh? Well, my memory deserves that refresh cycle.
Come to think of it, that's true.
Then again, I thought it had the older MGA chips but bow they don't say
anything about sub-G200 ones.

Quote:>also a CVS branch of the DRI tree with some support for Mach64
>cards. However, it isn't being worked on at the moment.

That I haven't heard of. Guess they are driving the pci GART forward.
That's great.

Apologies for the misinformation.

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