Re: [Dri-users] Slow MGA G400 and Return to castle Wolfenstein (and others)

[B. v. d. H. <bvd...@xs...>]

On Friday 12 October 2001 17:06, Trond Eivind Glomsr=F8d wrote:
> "B. van den Heuvel" <bvd...@xs...> writes:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I'm strugling with my G400 performance for months now, since the 4.1
> > tree. Quake 3 is just not playable at some levels,
> > Return to castle wolfenstein is not playable.
> > Soldier of fortune is not playable anymore.
> >
> > I had contact with Jeff Hartman, and he told me that this was supposed =
to
> > be a SMP issue.
> >
> > But i've tried the same config (RH7.1+Xfree4.1+G400 (PIII/BX chipset)) =
on
> > a Uni-processor machine, and the same slowness as a result.
> >
> > I've heard from the avifile guys that there are some serious problems
> > with the gcc version (2.96) supplied by RedHat in combination with MMX.
>
> FWIW, Wolfenstein plays excellently on our dual 733-systems with G400
> her . All system components compiled with 2.96RH, of course (Roswell +
> updates).

Do you mind posting your exact configuration (Xfree version, kernel version=
,=20
Hardware), I'm curious.

Greetings,


Bas van den Heuvel