Re: OT: 3dfx voodoo 5 errata

2000-12-11 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Peter Jay Salzman, > 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

Re: OT: 3dfx voodoo 5 errata

2000-12-11 Thread Rob VanFleet
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.

OT: 3dfx voodoo 5 errata

2000-12-11 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
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