[ut2003io] radeon 9700

floam floam at ascorbic.com
Mon Feb 3 00:23:13 EST 2003


what do you  mean by not in a window manager? as in not at X at all? 
then youd type startx -e ut2003, otherwise just do xterm and type ut2003


Deaths_Ride wrote:

>How do u start ut2003 when your not in a window manager?
>for instance...nox?
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>On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 18:56, Ryan C. Gordon wrote:
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>>>So from my experience it appears that *something* is chewing up CPU in
>>>the rendering pipeline someplace.  The OpenGL render in UT2003 is known
>>>to be not terribly efficent at this point, but systems with similar
>>>specs running nVidia cards appear to get higher frame rates.
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>>Remember that using a faster CPU or overclocking might get you a 
>>noticibly better framerate even if it _IS_ a driver bottleneck...some 
>>drivers might use a software fallback if a game hits an unoptimized 
>>codepath.
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>>I can't speak for ATI's drivers directly, but this seems to be a 
>>possibility here.
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>>--ryan.
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