It was my understanding that you didn't need device3dfx at all when running X4. I thought tdfx replaced it's functionality.
-Rob On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 04:38:11PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > i made an astonishing discovery: > > device-3dfx (3dfx.o) is only needed for glide applications. and then, only > if you want to play the glide game as non-root. quake3 plays just dandy as > non-root. > > in fact, i have a question about this. i do a lot of benchmarking, and i've > found that quake3 plays FASTER as non-root than as root. > > > timedemo 1 voodoo 5/5500 > ---------- xfree86 4.0.1 > root: 34.6 fps dual celery 550 > p: 39.0 fps > > > these benchmark numbers are the fastest out of a trial of 3. i didn't > fiddle with mtrr's or runlevels. i rebooted the system after each trial of > 3 was done. the timedemos were run without a window manager, via xinitrc. > > > to be honest, the 39fps is an improvement over the voodoo3, but not by much. > i was expecting something much, much faster. is there anyone else on this > list with a voodoo5 or voodoo4 and quake3? can you email me your benchmarks > for timedemo1? i'd like to compare numbers. > > maybe the lack of speed increase is a result of the v4/v5 driver not being > finished? > > in any event, the speed difference between root and p is very strange. does > anyone have an explanation for such a thing to happen? > > pete
