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« on: August 31, 2012, 08:54:30 AM »
Hi,

atm I'm trying OA on Lubuntu (first time linux for me).
I get OA running (openarena.i386) and with the xgamma -gamma 3 hack it looks good - better than I had it under windows and loads much faster.
My problem is that the rendering is slower now. In one scenario it was only half the frames. With normal weapons it is very noticable which I had only rarely or less severe under windows.

Question:
Can I tweak down the graphics to improve FPS with Mesa (through some general settings / oa setup is the same as before) and if so what/where to do?

I did try to install the driver of ATI but that failed and OA did not boot.

The configuration I copied from the windows installation on the same machine.

 
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« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2012, 10:08:49 AM »
Did you also try using a "clean" configuration?
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« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2012, 03:19:34 PM »
OpenArena doesn't support software rendering, including Mesa and TinyGL. It will never be playable on it for the time being.


I wish I had a software renderer module using SSE2 (modern cpu gruntwork instead) because of these linux/bsd driver issues honestly, but right now your best luck is to get the AMD video driver working.


Did you try the opensource driver? That supposedly still supports older radeon hardware which I suspect you are using.
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« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2012, 02:08:37 PM »
OK.

I think I do run with hardware accelerated graphics (as installed together with the OS):

http://www.mesa3d.org/faq.html 1.2 > DRI gives me a config (package driconf).

Played around a bit. FPS seem more stable at first glance.



Yes, my old Radeon is not supported by ATI/AMD
http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Hardware#mw-head
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