[H-GEN] Re: [H-CHAT] Request for comments (sic)

[Martin Pool]

On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 11:01:02PM +1000, Stephen Thorne wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 11:24:50AM +1100, Martin Pool wrote:

> > I have a G400 and it's very nice.  There's a significant performance
> > improvement for it under XFree86 4.0.1, though perhaps it was just
> > that 3.x just wasn't quite configured properly.  Branden's Debian
> > packages work well.  So if you're going to run XFree rather than a Sun
> > proprietary X server you might like to risk the upgrade.
> > 

> 2d or 3d?

Both, but it was already pretty fast at 2d.  I barely ever play Quake,
so fast for me means:

  2d: opaque windows drag smoothly in 1280x1024x16bpp

  3d: the Xscreensaver hacks (sprongies!!) look smooth not jerky

> I use my G400 for playing Quake3a primarily and I'm using utah-glx/3.3.6,
> do you know how Xfree 4.0.1 compares?

Running gcc they look just the same. :)

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