Re: Q3 Horrific Lag on VooDoo 3 [ PLEASE HELP!! ]

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

JakeCatfox@aol.com wrote:
> 
> Hi, sorry for the extreme subject. Not sure if my last message got through. I
> installed Quake 3's linux demo, mesag3-glide2, but when I run it, it runs at
> 1fps! I have seen 2 other people online with this problem, but no one had a
> solution. The best thing I heard was "it can't find libGL.so" so it's using
> MESA software rendering. It's right there in the directory with it, though! I
> installed the 3dfx device too, from the sources .deb available on
> Packages.debian.org, no help .. The game works fully, but from the moment I
> run it to the moment I quit it's unbelievably slow. I have a Duron 880mhz
> with 196mb RAM, VooDoo 3, 2.4.5 kernel, and XFree86 (dunno what version,
> whatever comes standard with 2.2.19pre17 Debian ISO image-made discs). Can
> someone please help me?

  try to run glxinfo, you should see a line like:

direct rendering: Yes

  if it's very slow it probably does not use HW rendering. remember, you
have to run X in depth 16 (not 24) for openGL HW acceleration to work
(pretty stupid if you ask me but that's hw limitation of voodoo III).

	erik