Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 16:12:28 +0200 From: "Karel J. Bosschaart" <K.J.Bosschaart@tue.nl> To: Mica Telodico <maria_libera2000@yahoo.it> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux Enemy Territory very slow in menus Message-ID: <20030728141227.GA92833@phys9911.phys.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <20030727215607.64241.qmail@web41902.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030727215607.64241.qmail@web41902.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 11:56:07PM +0200, Mica Telodico wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm tring to play to Wolfenstein:ET on FreeBSD 4.8 and > 5.1 , but I have the subsequent problem: > > My system is Athlon XP 2400+ with a Radeon 8500LE , > DRI and Linux SubSystem is correctly installed , I can > start the game correctly, I see the video without any > problem , and all is ok until I get into the Main Menu > of the game . > > The screen is draw correctly ( only a little glitch in > the right-low corner) , but the problem is that all is > veeeeeeery slow , also if I put resolution to 640x480 > and all the graphics options to the lowest setting. > The mouse and the keyboard are very laggy , if I move > the mouse I have to wait a couple of seconds before it > moves (and it doesn't move smoothly , it moves like if > the system is under heavy load) , the sound have some > problem too , sometimes it is choppy. The very funny > thing is that if I start the game (is very difficult > start a game , because the mouse is pretty difficult > to move) the game work correctly , the mouse is very > quick in responding and the keyboard too , the sound > is smooth , and the game is fast (as under linux) , > I've tried at a max of 1024x768 (I can't try over this > resolution , because at this Res the mouse become > impossible to control under the main menu , and at > this Res is quite difficult too) . Why under the menu > the system is so slow , and under the game (that > should be more heavy that the menu! ) works normal and > under the menus it doesn't ?? > It looks like software rendering in the menu, hardware rendering in the game itself, but I have no idea why the hardware rendering in the menu fails. No useful logs around? I might give it a try this week and see what happens on my machine (GForce4 Ti4200). Karel.
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