[psychonauts] Expected performance on Intel Sandybridge?

[Luiji Maryo]

Does your laptop use an Intel GPU? Psychonauts tends to have problems
with them due to the lack of S3TM texture-compression support, though
many people have succeeded in forcing it to work.

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy at goop.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm getting <1fps on my Lenovo X220 (Sandybridge) laptop running Fedora
> 17.  This is definitely not a high powered gaming machine, but a lot of
> things work surprisingly well on it, including things of a similar era
> to Psychonauts (doom3-demo runs at 40-60fps, for example, and the rest
> of the HB V games are working well).
>
> Is this something that could be fixed by tweaking settings (I've turned
> everything off in the menu, but perhaps there are other settings?) or
> optimisation/driver issue that is likely to be fixed in time, or is
> there something fundimental about how it does rendering that makes it
> unlikely it will ever run well on this machine?
>
> Thanks,
>    J
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