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DCSquares: Linux ... Unplayable

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    • CommentAuthorKeogh
    • CommentTimeJul 10th 2005
     
    • Comments: 2
    • Joined: Jul 7th 2005

    On a Thinkpad T42P (ati radeon FireGL t2 , 1.5Go Ram,...Pentium IV m 1.8Ghz)...
    Linux Distrib: Mandriva 2005 LE

    I needed first to install:
    libsdl_mixer1.2

    Then playing (i mean trying to play)...

    It's not possible to play...the game is LAGGING...badly...squares appear in middle of the screen ...then disappear...0 square in 27 seconds...am not good...but not so bad.

    Working Great on Windows...this game is good!!

    (You should try Fileforum/Betanews www.fileforum.com) to submit your game ...)

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      CommentAuthorc99koder
    • CommentTimeJul 10th 2005
     
    • Comments: 241
    • Joined: Jan 6th 2003

    I've been meaning to update this site to display the minimum system requirements, but DCSquares uses OpenGL to display the graphics, so it depends on having a fast OpenGL system. For linux, this generally means installing the binary nvidia or ati drivers. All of my testing is done on a Pentium III with a 16MB nvidia TNT2, and it runs fine on that system with the binary nvidia driver.

    If you let X11 try to render the OpenGL using software, you will get a very low framerate, which will make the game unplayable.

    I'll check out the site you mentioned, thanks for the link.

    -Sam

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