How is Sauer with a GMA 950?

by Chaos on 07/31/2007 09:48, 37 messages, last message: 08/07/2007 08:55, 10945 views, last view: 05/04/2024 02:39

I'm looking into buying a laptop for college like every other stereotypical college student, and I love Sauerbraten.

So naturally I want to get something that can handle Sauer ideally at 1280x800, and won't look like crap.

I found a decent Core 2 Duo with GMA 950 integrated graphics and I wanted to know if anyone had experience with Sauer on it?

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#18: Re: ..

by rancor on 08/02/2007 18:45, refers to #16

But you see, I don't hate Windows for no reason. I will not explicate, because such flamewars are not productive, but there are well founded reasons. Additionally, I really like *nix environments, so there is a positive as well as a negative. Can we talk about hating on people for bad spelling and punctuation instead?

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by djGentoo on 08/02/2007 20:32

You're right, Linux *had* a long way to go before we could use it for gaming, but that was a while ago.
Wait, you meant to say "has"? Ohhh... Well, why didn't you say so?
And by the way, why aren't you using your spelling checD'OH! *slaps self in forehead* I forgot you're not using Firefox.

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by SanHolo on 08/02/2007 21:58, refers to #16

Tell me when you finish first grade and we'll talk again.

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by Passa on 08/03/2007 15:33, refers to #19

"You're right, Linux *had* a long way to go before we could use it for gaming, but that was a while ago."

Imo it still does. For a casual gamer its fine, it runs the most popular games under Wine at decent speeds. But for people with high powered rigs who squeeze every last frame out of their system, running their favourite games under Wine and having to play on the lowest settings and enjoy strange quirks and performance problems is not fun.

When Linux has strong publisher support, then we'll talk about its eligibility as a gaming platform. On that note, I use a laptop with Ubuntu and MythTV with the MythGame extension to run all my console emulators on the TV screen with a controller, its great :)

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by RealNitro on 08/03/2007 15:56

I have a macbook with a GMA 950. Sauer doensn\'t start without providing the -f0 flag (no shaders). Simple maps run without problems (metl2,3,4), but aquaduct is unplayable, and the village rpg map crashed sauer (and took my Ubuntu Feisty system down with it).

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by noerrorsfound! on 08/03/2007 18:25, refers to #21

Passa speaks the truth. Although it's great how id Software and Epic Games continue to port their software for our enjoyment, there are many more companies out there releasing popular titles with no support for the GNU/Linux operating system. Running games in Wine sometimes works, but you usually have to make a graphical or gameplay (or both) sacrifice.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Shadow of Chernobyl, which I've played a lot recently, is slow when using DiretX 9 mode. Although "Static lighting" is good enough for me to enjoy the game, many people just won't want to give up their pretty dynamic lighting in the game.

Oblivion needs HDR lighting off to play, although still looks nice without it, in my opinion.

SWAT 4 runs great as long as you have "Bloom" off and "Bump map detail" set to anything under High, but you can't make a full turn in the game due to this bug: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6971

This means, to turn all the way around to the right, you've got to push Esc and drag your mouse over to the left side, then push Esc to go back to playing and you can finally turn. This must be repeated whenever you want to face a new direction. The game is literally "playable", but it's just to annoying.

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by noerrorsfound! on 08/03/2007 18:26, refers to #23

I've successfully misspelled "too" in the above post. GREAT SUCCESS!

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by noerrorsfound! on 08/03/2007 18:28, refers to #24

...and DirectX. I never proofread my posts when they're in this tiny little box.

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by djGentoo on 08/03/2007 20:12

Yeah, Passa is, mostly, right. I was just taking a stab at ATIFANBOY for his misspelling of the word "has".

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by Acord on 08/04/2007 00:24, refers to #23

Have you tried "Oldblivion"? It's a hack but made oblivion run a lot faster.

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by rancor on 08/04/2007 00:32, refers to #27

The other part I noted with Oblivion was that it wants a lot of RAM. Going from 1GB to 3GB made a big difference.

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by ATIRULE on 08/04/2007 04:55, refers to #26

linux can eat my fps=/ Ive used Ubuntu Feisty and Tryed to run sauer with a ati 9600xt and I get 60-80/noshaders
Running omega 7.6 drivers

fps under windows xp ProSp2 & useing the native linux version of sauer
I Get 15-35 fps useing the ati drivers

PS:Iam fully aware of the issues with AtI and linux so Don't Bother Ranting To me about ati issues with linux =/

PSS;}there is a saying money makes the world go around and if u can't make money off of something don't
expect the the driver/dev's to put resorces into makeing it work=/

In short thay arnt going to waste there time&money on linix A VERY SAD BUT TURE FACT/= :(

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by tentus_ on 08/04/2007 05:59, refers to #29

Why do you waste our time with your grammar? It boggles the mind just how bad it is. It's almost deliberately bad, I have trouble believing that you aren't trying to sound like a Neanderthal.

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#31: ATIRULE

by Qconorkirk03pattrickdcfasfsdf0909090Q on 08/05/2007 05:55

ATIRULE: What did you expect? it's ATI!

I am using a GeForce FX5200 with bloom and I get 30FPS, and I use Linux. With water reflections, shaders, everything on, and it runs fine.

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by djGentoo on 08/05/2007 09:14

In metl4, I get about 25-30FPS with most effects turned off, including music (I prefer to have my music scrobbled to last.fm), and I'm running a GMA 950 with 512MB RAM.

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#33: Re: ATIRULE

by ATIRULE on 08/05/2007 20:42, refers to #31

30 fps thats LOw

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#34: Re: ATIRULE

by noerrorsfound! on 08/05/2007 23:25, refers to #33

gtfo ;)

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#35: Re: ATIRULE

by dsafsdfsdconorjkirkdafsdfsdafsdfsdsdf on 08/06/2007 05:21, refers to #33

"30 fps thats LOw"

ATIRULE: I know, but until you provide some screenshots, with your card that has everything on, I have a hard time beliving that you get any more.

Also, you have the worst grasp of the English language I have ever heard.

Oh, and guess what? My card is older than yours, and my computer is way slower, so I suppost you have just been owned? No? Okay.

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#36: Re: ATIRULE

by ATIRULE on 08/07/2007 08:46, refers to #35

u asked for is this is useing the cvs verion with all that shaders maxed no
x2 Af x2AA
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Shot at 2007-08-06

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#37: Re: ATIRULE

by noerrorsfound! on 08/07/2007 08:55, refers to #36

Whoa, what is wrong with the inclined surface? The bump mapping (it IS bumpmapping, right eihrul...?) looks very messed up.

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