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Re: ppracer much slower than tuxracer



On Tue, 24 May 2005 15:44:58 -0400
Marty <martyb@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> I am running Debian testing which has recently transitioned from
> tuxracer to ppracer 0.3.1.
> 
> The game has slowed by at least an order of magnitude, based on
> side-by-side testing with a backed-up copy of old tuxracer.  The
> results are consistent after trying several graphics cards.  With old
> Tuxracer I get 20-30fps, while ppracer gives 2-5fps.  (The tested
> cards refresh glxgears at 250-730fps).
> 
> These results were seen on older hardware (K6-3 450MHz w/first gen 3D
> graphics cards).  I can understand how this problem might not be as
> noticable on fast hardware.

I can confirm that. Tuxracer consistently ran at 100 - 110fps, but
ppracer runs at 75 - 80fps on my computer. You're right, the difference
is noticeable, but not enough to be a problem. I had to turn on the fps
display to see how much of a difference it was.

My computer is a 1.8Ghz AMD Athlon with 1GB of ram and a Radeon 9200SE
video card.

Unfortunately this doesn't help your problem, but I can confirm you're
not the only one seeing it.

HTH,
Jacob



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