[ut2004] ATi and OpenAL problems

[[Apoc]Death]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Mark Limburg wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> I'm running an AMD2700+ with 1G Corsair RAM and an ATI 9700 PRo with
> 128M .. and it's really choppy when running at 1024x768.  I haven't
> checked FPS yet, but it looks around 25-30 .. any ideas on how I can a)
> check and b) do something about it?
>
> Also, sound works about half the time .. I'm guessing it's more than
> likely the various apps competing for the sound stream, so I'm going to
> install esound and see how it fairs ..
>
> Those aside, it's SO good to see UT2004 as a native linux game.  My hat
> is off to this, it's one of the reasons why I'm refusing to use my XP
> partition - and so far, I give it 6 months until I kill it off.
>
> But then .. I want to start getting into the MOD scene (for UT2004) and
> if I need XP for that, then I'll keep it :P

You don't...  "ucc make" can be successfully operated under Wine on
Linux without hassle.  Ryan has often banterred around the idea of
bringing that functionality to Linux, too, so it may not be far off as a
fully native function.

We can at least hope, right, Ryan?  ;)


Rob

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