Re: [TuxKart-devel] Slowness - really related with Karts?

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

James Gregory wrote:
>
> The in-game text in the old TuxKart was heavily pixellated and very
> ugly.

Which is because it had to work on a typical card of that era - a
Voodoo-1 or -2 which had a hard limit of 256x256 as the largest
possible map.

Given the ability to use a 1kx1k for the fonts, that problem would
magically disappear.

> Given that SDL_ttf was already being used for the menu screens, by
> far the easiest way to fix this problem by just switching the text
> drawing calls to use SDL_ttf, rather than using one thing for menu
> screens and another for in-game status text.

Well - don't spend too much time on it - SDL is the first thing I'll
be removing when you guys finish messing around.

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