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/
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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