[ut2004] Tuning guide?

Mon May 17 06:11:46 EDT 2004

Oh, i have an GeForce FX 5600 and i switched the color depth from 16bit to 32bit in UT2004 and now i have about 80fps instead of 30fps

give it a try...

gladiac

The following message was sent by Peter Hoff <petehoff at pacbell.net> on Sun, 16 May 2004 15:55:38 -0700.

> John Bailo wrote:
> 
> >On Wednesday 12 May 2004 21:32, Peter Hoff wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>I'm with you. It's playable on Linux, but the performance is definately
> >>better on Windows. The most plausible (to me anyway) explanaition I've
> >>heard is that directx is designed specifically for gaming, while opengl
> >>is geared more towards proffesional 3d applications.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >C'mon, you guys are just trolling.
> >
> >My machine is :
> >
> >2400 Athlon 2G
> >256 memory
> >Suse Linux 9.0
> >Radeon 9200 with the ATI Linux drivers.
> >40G harddrive -- dual boot, 2 Windows shares, and four Linux file systems.
> >
> >I put UT2004 on a 19G linux filesystem.
> >
> >Im new to UT so I'm doing the single player games -- two on one fighting. 
>   To 
> >me, it's excellent.  I compare it with Halo -- which I found to be a dog 
> once 
> >the action and fighting started.   In fact the Linux UT2004 moves so fast 
> 
> >it's hard to keep my wits about me.
> >
> >In theory, since the Linux and Windows version come on the same DVD I 
> could do 
> >a comparison with Windows .
> >
> >  
> >
> Not trolling, I'm totally serious. I haven't done a comparison on my own 
> 
> system, as I only run Linux. As I said, it's playable, but the 
> performance isn't great. A friend of mine dual boots and performance is 
> 
> significantly better on Windows. IIRC, he has:
> 
> Athlon 3000+
> either 512 or 1024M RAM
> GeForce FX 5900
> SuSE 8.2/Windows XP
> 
> Even when he had an 1800+ and was using the NForce2 onboard video his 
> performance under Windows was equivalent or better than mine under 
> Linux, and the only real difference between our systems was that I was 
> 
> using a GeForce FX 5700 Ultra (and not using Windows).
> 
> 
> 
> 