[ale] OT - Unreal Tournament (not 2k4)

[Dow Hurst]

Ah! The nvidia driver is worlds better than the ATI as far as I know.  
Even the low end card like you have will perform pretty well compared to 
an equivalent ATI version card.  The Rage Pro is old as well as the card 
you have Matt.  Also, the CPU speeds are pretty low for gaming.  I'd 
think your doing well with your setup.

I've noticed the Nvidia 5200 FX cards are only around $100 now.  You 
could try that out from Microcenter and take it back if it doesn't 
perform the way you'd like within 30 days.
Dow


Matthew Magee wrote:

> Geoffrey wrote:
>
>> Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone here play Unreal Tournament on Linux?  I've got a UT 
>>> server on Linux, but recently decided to try to actually play the 
>>> game on Linux.  The install went great, I'm at v436, installed Bonus 
>>> Pack 1, and I was ready to play.  When I fired up the game though, 
>>> it was running at a crawl.  The image looked really nice, it was 
>>> just very slow.  As an example, the intro movie was moving frame by 
>>> frame.  Below are the specs (that I know to look for) on the machine.
>>
>>
>>
>> Sounds like you might be missing hardware acceleration.  You really 
>> want the hardware acceleration if you want the fps.
>>
>> Look in your config file for:
>>
>> Section "Module"
>> .
>> .
>> Load    "dri"
>> .
>> .
>> EndSection
>>
>> and:
>>
>> Section "DRI"
>>     Group    "video"
>>     Mode    0660
>> EndSection
>>
> I had no problems running UT GOTY on my machine at 1024x768.  (and 
> higher!)
>
> Although I can't back this statement up with any facts, I will say 
> that I found performance for anything multimedia on Fedora 1 or 2 to 
> be terrible.  I switched to Mandrake, and all is well with the games 
> and audio.  Must be some MM and preemption tweaks in the MDK supplied 
> kernel???
>
> If you really are using an accelerated driver, then we have a mystery 
> on our hands.  UT should fly on your box.
>
> I was using:
>
> Duron 750
> 256MB RAM (PC100)
> Nvidia GeForce 4 MX 440 W/64M of SDRAM
>
> Mandrake 9.2
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