Re: [tuxracer-main] Request for feedback

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

Evan Andrew Weaver wrote:
> 
> > 2. What do you like LEAST about Tux Racer in its current form?
> 
>         It hasn't enough to play at this time. There are too few
>         courses, and some of the ones there is, are quite crappy.
>         And it seems to be quite eager for hardware resources.
>         I've got an AMD K6-2@450 with 128MB RAM and a Voodoo3
>         and I have to lower the detail level quite a lot to get
>         good playability. And still, FPS differs from 10 to 30
>         or something, which isn't that much.
> 
> I'm not sure, but I thought that the Voodoo series didn't properly support
> OpenGL, which would mean you are running in software rendering, which
> would obviously be very slow.

No - that's not true.  I've used Voodoo-1/2/3 cards for a couple of
years and they support OpenGL just fine.  Their problem has been in
supporting OpenGL running in a window on the desktop...that's not
generally a problem for games which mostly *want* to run full-screen.

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