I don't have any windows installed, so I cannot test the system that way.  The
system is pretty new, so I have the newest drivers.  I remember reading that
some of the smoothness issues were driver related.

As a crude test, I once played quake 3 while recompiling my kernel, and it
worked fine.

Jason Brown


On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> Jason Brown wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> > > No DRI support for nVidia cards because of the closed source drivers
> > > (not linux's fault of course)... 3dfx has really came to the table with
> > > it's arms out but I still get really poor performance with my voodoo3
> > > with games like Unreal Tournament and Quake 3.
> > 
> > I run a pIII550 with a voodoo 3000 agp and my experience with quake3 has been
> > great.
> > 
> > Jason Brown
> 
> Well, you're a little ahead of me on the hardware end. I'm only running
> a p2-350 w/ Voodoo3 200 PCI. I guess I should say that it's not really
> horrible. It's actually quite playable on most maps but I'm very picky
> about my frame rate and it just runs much smoother in windows.
> 
> Do you have windows loaded on the same computer? If so, what kind of
> frame rate difference have you notices (if any at all)?
> 
> Regards,
> Mike Cantrell
> 
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