[quake2] slow opengl only in quake2 linux

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at nsu.ru
Mon Aug 20 11:12:04 EDT 2007


On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 12:34:20PM +0100, Tiago Marques wrote:
> Hi!
> I would like to know if someone has any ideia why my laptop, wich has
> a 945 intel chipset, runs fine games like quake3, but the quake 2 port
> for linux is inexplicably slow. Like 2-5fps.

It can be wrong dlopen() flags in src/linux/qgl_linux.c when opening
game .so, at least on FreeBSD I needed to change them from RTLD_LAZY to
RTLD_LAZY | RTLD_GLOBAL.  Interestingly enough, Quake3 seems to have
this flag set correctly.

To be sure, what does your /gl_strings say in Q2?

THT,

./danfe



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