Re: Very slow 3d games
On Sun, 2003-04-20 at 16:32, ralph bacolod wrote:
> Btw,i am also dual booting the same machine with
> windows xp home ed. In xp,im have half life CS,
> Warcraft 3, red alert installed . Theyre doing ok with
> the same specs AFAICS.
Firstly, please set up your email client to wrap text at around 80
columns, and place your replies below the quoted text.
Well, as noted elsewhere, the Savage3D is not what you'd describe as a
high performance 3D solution. This is exacerbated on Linux by the fact
that the XFree86 "savage" driver doesn't do OpenGL, as noted at
http://www.tjansen.de/xfree-features/
However, there does appear to be a Linux driver located at
http://ranger.s3graphics.com/swlib/395drv/
However, on initial inspection, this driver seems to be for XFree86
3.3.6, and there is no mention of accelerated 3D in the README.
Additionally, as noted at http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html :
"DRI/OpenGL/Mesa support.
There is currently no DRI driver for the Savages for XFree86 4.x, which
means that OpenGL applications are entirely simulated in software. There
was work going on at one time to add this support, by the same fellow
who did the UtahGLX driver for XFree86 3.3.6, but his e-mail address no
longer responds."
I suspect that you might be out of luck on this issue, at least with
XFree86 4.x.
Regards,
Peter.
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Peter Whysall <peter@whysall.net>
The IWETHEY Project
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