[ILUG] ut2004 & fedora3

[Conor Wynne]

On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 19:48, Philip Creevy wrote:
> AMD 3000+, 1GB DDR400, GFORCE4, Fedora3, binary graphics
> driver.
> At 800x600 with all setting to normal I am getting 30 to 35 
> fps on average. 
> I used to have doom3 on Fedora2 with the same hardware
> but the last doom3 patch broke the sound and so I did a 
> full install of fedora3 and have not got around to 
> re-installing dooom3.
> ut2004 & doom3 yes
> 60fps yes (or close)
> oss no

These new fangled games really do require top end gear so!
I downloaded the doom3 demo (500 odd MB), went to run it and it tells
me:

Couldn't get a visual
dlopen(libGL.so.1)
Initializing OpenGL display
Using XFree86-VidModeExtension Version 2.2
DGA DirectVideo Mouse (Version 2.0) initialized
Free86-VidModeExtension Activated at 640x512
Couldn't get a visual
idRenderSystem::Shutdown()
Fatal X Error:
  Major opcode of failed request: 105
  Minor opcode of failed request: 0
  Serial number of failed request: 38
BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
Fatal X Error:
  Major opcode of failed request: 2
  Minor opcode of failed request: 0
  Serial number of failed request: 42
BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
Fatal X Error:
  Major opcode of failed request: 4
  Minor opcode of failed request: 0
  Serial number of failed request: 43
BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
Sys_Error: Unable to initialize OpenGL
daddy at snowwhite:~>

i.e.: my machine is too crap. It seems that a Gforce3Ti is now low end
hardware. 

The README states:

GNU/Linux system,
Pentium III, 1Ghz
256Mb RAM
Kernel 2.4, 2.6 is recommended
glibc 2.2.4 and up
 
3D card:
  NV10 or R200 minimum hardware
  OpenGL hardware acceleration
  64 MB VRAM

So going by that, its really GPU intensive as opposed to CPU. 
I may ask Santy for a new board after all.

Now does anybody have any idea as to what OSS card will run new games @
playstation frame rates? 
I see no point in upgrading the GPU if it will not run the latest
goodies. 

The only card I know of that is equivalent or better than the one I
currently run is the Voodoo5 series of cards. I had one until my brother
"borrowed" it. 

p.s.: I do agree that getting graphics manufacturers to OSS their wares
would be the ideal situation. I am not in any way against that
philosophy. 

-- 
Conor Wynne
Dublin,
Irlande.

GPG Key: http://www.conorwynne.com/gpg-key
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