Hi! [ adding the bug and it's submitter to CC, I'm to lazy to send out the nearly same mail twice ;) ] * Marty <martyb@ix.netcom.com> [050524 21:44]: > 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. As the maintainer of ppracer I must confess, that I indeed didn't tested it on older hardware. Sorry. But - as explained in /usr/share/doc/tuxracer/README.Debian - it didn't seemed to be usefull to us, to ship sarge with unmainted code (which proved at least once not even compilable on a recent sarge system). However, I'm aware of that problem (it has even it's own bug report - see http://bugs.debian.org/310573), and I'm in contact with the upstram author, to see, what the problem could be, and if it is solvable on a per user basis. For the moment, the only solution I know of, is to fetch the old 0.61-6.4 package from [1] (don't forget the tuxracer-data package!), and set both on hold, so they won't be upgraded again. Yours sincerely, Alexander Links: 1: http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2005/04/27/debian/pool/main/t/tuxracer/ -- http://learn.to/quote/ http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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