[quake3] Performance win/lin

Michael Stather lists at michaelstather.com
Wed Nov 16 03:32:13 EST 2005


Carlos Alberto Lopez Romero wrote:
> Get the proprietary ATi Drivers for Linux at ATi's homepage. Quake 3 
> should be playable, but don't expect those drivers to perform quite as 
> well as the ones for windows. If you need help installing them, 
> please, PLEASE go to www.rage3d.com and ask on the linux forum, not here.
>
> Michael Stather wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I´ve a notebook with a "Mobile Radeon M6" chip with 16MB VRAM in it. 
>> Under Windows the performance of quake3 SVN is ok, but when I try it 
>> under linux it´s almost unplayable. I´m using the open-source 
>> "radeon" driver and SuSE 10.0. What can I do here?
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Michael
>>
>
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As said I´ve a Mobile Radeon and the proprietary drivers only support 
newer cards. Direct rendering is enabled too. So If there´s no other 
thing I can do thanks for your help.
But I wonder anyway why the open-source drivers are so slow compared to 
the windows ones...



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