Quake 3

Chris Feltner plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
10 Sep 2002 21:46:04 -0400


On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 15:42, slr wrote:
> that is exactly the problem, you are not running 3d hardware acceleration. i 
> tried the loki site and it appears they have taken it down. try this link, 
> you may find it useful: http://www.opengl.org/users/about/ 
>
I went to this site, but only found drivers (Bronze - Platinum versions)
ranging from $69.00 to ~$112.00.

Did I go to the right place, or did I miss something?
 
> slr
> 
> 
> On Sunday 08 September 2002 09:37 pm, Dallas Helquist wrote:
> > Sounds like your X isn't using hardware acceleration.  Loki used to have a
> > support page that explained how to check etc, but they are out of business.
> > The page might still be in place - check www.lokigames.com .
> >
> > -dallas
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Chris Feltner" <chrisf@access4less.net>
> > To: "Plug-discuss" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> > Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 6:16 PM
> > Subject: Quake 3
> >
> > > I hope that somebody can help me out. Today I installed Quake 3 on my
> > > box; however, after I execute the program and try to play it, my courser
> > > goes so slow over the GUI. (Keep in mind that this doesn't happen over
> > > the regular desktop settings or in AbiWord, etc. Although this does
> > > happen when I try to play Tux Racer.)
> > >
> > > I have a Pentium II @ 400 Mhz,the minimum requirements for the game is
> > > 233 Mhz. My video card is a S3 Savage4, at 32MB. I have 256MB of RAM and
> > > the minimum requirements are 64MB. I am running Red Hat 7.3, and I am
> > > assuming that Glibc 2.0 or greater came with the distro. (can anyone
> > > explain to me what Glibc 2.0 is? I am not sure what this is.)
> > >
> > > I do not understand why this game is going so slow! Can anyone help me
> > > out?
> > >
> > > Thank you,
> > > Chris F.
> > >
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