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Date:      Sat, 12 Aug 2006 05:34:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Girish Venkatachalam <girish1729@yahoo.com>
To:        Viswas Nair <fysical@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Improving Quake 3 frame rates in BSD
Message-ID:  <20060812123405.58915.qmail@web35612.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <73d604760608120513v2c7fe1c7sae10006c418cdde@mail.gmail.com>

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--- Viswas Nair <fysical@gmail.com> wrote:

> I managed to install Quake 3 but the frame rates and
> the mouse
> response is terrible. I am running the game on an
> intel integrated
> system 945g. While I know that this is not great for
> gamin, quake 3 is
> quite a old game and hence gives me pretty decent
> frame rates in
> windows. I am trying to get something playable in
> BSD.
> 
> I get about 773 fps with glxgears and here is the
> output of glxinfo:
> 
> 
> name of display: :0.0
> display: :0  screen: 0
> direct rendering: No
> server glx vendor string: SGI
> server glx version string: 1.2
> server glx extensions:
>     GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info,
> GLX_EXT_visual_rating,
>     GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_OML_swap_method,
> GLX_SGI_make_current_read,
>     GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_hyperpipe,
> GLX_SGIX_swap_barrier,
>     GLX_SGIX_fbconfig
> client glx vendor string: SGI
> client glx version string: 1.4
> client glx extensions:
>     GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample,
> GLX_EXT_import_context,
>     GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating,
> GLX_MESA_allocate_memory,
>     GLX_MESA_swap_control,
> GLX_MESA_swap_frame_usage, GLX_OML_swap_method,
>     GLX_OML_sync_control, GLX_SGI_make_current_read,
> GLX_SGI_swap_control,
>     GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGIS_multisample,
> GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
>     GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group
> GLX extensions:
>     GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample,
> GLX_EXT_import_context,
>     GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating,
> GLX_OML_swap_method,
>     GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGIS_multisample,
> GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
>     GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group
> OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
> OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
> OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.4.1)
> OpenGL extensions:
>     GL_ARB_depth_texture, GL_ARB_imaging,
> GL_ARB_multitexture,
>     GL_ARB_point_parameters, GL_ARB_point_sprite,
> GL_ARB_shadow,
>     GL_ARB_shadow_ambient,
> GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp,
>     GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, GL_ARB_texture_env_add,
>     GL_ARB_texture_env_combine,
> GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar,
>     GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3,
> GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat,
>     GL_ARB_texture_rectangle,
> GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_ARB_window_pos,
>     GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra, GL_EXT_blend_color,
> GL_EXT_blend_func_separate,
>     GL_EXT_blend_logic_op, GL_EXT_blend_minmax,
> GL_EXT_blend_subtract,
>     GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint, GL_EXT_copy_texture,
> GL_EXT_draw_range_elements,
>     GL_EXT_fog_coord, GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays,
> GL_EXT_packed_pixels,
>     GL_EXT_point_parameters, GL_EXT_polygon_offset,
> GL_EXT_rescale_normal,
>     GL_EXT_secondary_color,
> GL_EXT_separate_specular_color,
>     GL_EXT_shadow_funcs, GL_EXT_stencil_two_side,
> GL_EXT_stencil_wrap,
>     GL_EXT_subtexture, GL_EXT_texture,
> GL_EXT_texture3D,
>     GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp,
> GL_EXT_texture_env_add,
>     GL_EXT_texture_env_combine,
> GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3,
>     GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias, GL_EXT_texture_object,
> GL_EXT_texture_rectangle,
>     GL_EXT_vertex_array, GL_APPLE_packed_pixels,
> GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3,
>     GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once,
> GL_ATIX_texture_env_combine3,
>     GL_HP_occlusion_test,
> GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat,
>     GL_INGR_blend_func_separate,
> GL_MESA_pack_invert, GL_MESA_ycbcr_texture,
>     GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_point_sprite,
> GL_NV_texgen_reflection,
>     GL_NV_texture_rectangle,
> GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap,
>     GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp,
> GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp,
>     GL_SGIS_texture_lod, GL_SGIX_depth_texture,
> GL_SGIX_shadow,
>     GL_SGIX_shadow_ambient, GL_SUN_multi_draw_arrays
> glu version: 1.3
> glu extensions:
>     GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator,
> GLU_EXT_object_space_tess
> 
>    visual  x  bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st
> accumbuffer  ms  cav
>  id dep cl sp sz l  ci b ro  r  g  b  a bf th cl  r 
> g  b  a ns b eat
>
----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 0x23 24 tc  0 24  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  0  0 16  0  0 
> 0  0  0  0 0 None
> 0x24 24 tc  0 24  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  0  0 16  8 16
> 16 16  0  0 0 None
> 0x25 24 tc  0 32  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 16  8 16
> 16 16 16  0 0 None
> 0x26 24 tc  0 32  0 r  .  .  8  8  8  8  0 16  8 16
> 16 16 16  0 0 None
> 0x27 24 dc  0 24  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  0  0 16  0  0 
> 0  0  0  0 0 None
> 0x28 24 dc  0 24  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  0  0 16  8 16
> 16 16  0  0 0 None
> 0x29 24 dc  0 32  0 r  y  .  8  8  8  8  0 16  8 16
> 16 16 16  0 0 None
> 0x2a 24 dc  0 32  0 r  .  .  8  8  8  8  0 16  8 16
> 16 16 16  0 0 None
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Any suggestions on how to improve this? Thanks,
> Vishy
You have to enable DRI. What is your video card?
Procedure is different depending on your video card. 

I took the lengthy route of recompiling the entire
X.org source tree. But others may be able to give you
a simpler solution. 

Best,
Girish
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