[ut2003io] Choppy w/Radeon 8500

Gerardo Pirla Diaz gpdiaz at bellmonte.com
Tue Jan 7 05:32:26 EST 2003


Neil Gower wrote:

>I'm trying to run ut2003 on a RH7.2 machine, Athlon XP 1800+, 512MB DDR,
>Radeon 8500 128M.  I've installed all of the latest patches (2166) via
>the updater.  Trouble is, even if I crank everything way down (640x480,
>lowest settings or disabled for all details, etc, although resolution
>doesn't seem to matter), the game often gets choppy.  It's especially
>noticably on DM-Antalus, whenever the big white spikes in the center of
>the map are on screen.
>
>I'm using ATI's latest linux drivers, v2.5.1.  Other games work fine,
>like UT and Quake 3, and I know my libGL is hardware accelerated,
>because Heavy Gear 2 won't even start if it's not.  I looked through
>/var/log/XFree86.0.log and didn't notice any errors or other weirdness.
>I'm using the latest stock RH7.2 kernel, "2.4.18-19.7.x".
>
>Thoughts or advice?  Is my machine fast enough to expect smooth gameplay
>on maps like DM-Antalus?  Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Neil.
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Hi Neil

I'm playing with a Athlon-xp 1600+ and a Geforce4 TI4200 64mb and works fine





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