glx & quake3 & g200

[Scott Dier - dieman <dieman@ringworld.org>]

I have seen the light.

I got a g200 in a box today, overnight fedex from zibby over up in fargo
-- cause he has a tnt2u now.  Installed it and thought: ok, will this
thing do quake3?

Sure it will!

I installed the GLX drivers in debian format found at
http://glx.on.openprojects.net/ and they worked nicely. (After finding a
regexp bug in the package that i need to report)

First off I tried it out with xscreensaver-gl.  Excelent framerates from
most of the savers 'cept for stairs.  Then I took it a level further, I
did the AGP sysmem sharing.  As in, i deticated 8mb of my system memory to
the card and told glx to use it. (I have AGP2x, could be 3x if i wanted to
risk a 100mhz pci bus....)  I then fired up quake3 and lo and behold-- on
default settings this thing really does kick ass.  I havent had time to
run timedemos on it yet, but I am guessing its at least getting 30+ fps.  

Cant wait for neverwinter nights for linux :)

-Scott

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