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Only submit games that render as intended and that do not crash.

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Quake 3 Arena

    game: Quake 3 Arena 
 version: 1.32b

settings: untouched default settings, fullscreen, varying resolutions. 
    test: in the ingame console (~ key) type:
          timedemo 1; demo four

  system: P4 2.8GHZ 533MHZ 1GB
     GPU: PCIE X700LE 128MB 64bit      

  driver: (II) ATI: ATI driver (version 6.6.1) for chipsets: ati, ativga
          (II) RADEON(0): [dri] Found DRI library version 
          (II) RADEON(0): [drm] DRM interface version 1.2
          OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R300 20040924 x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL
          OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 6.5.1
 
 results: Section "Device"
             Identifier "ATI X300"
             Driver "radeon"
             #Option "AGPFastWrite" "1"        # NO EFFECT, PCIE
             #Option "AGPMode"      "8"        # NO EFFECT, PCIE              
             #Option "DisplayPriority" "HIGH"  # NO EFFECT
             ...
          EndSection
            
                          ***   +++   ---   ---   ---
Option "AccelMethod"    | EXA | XAA | EXA | XAA | EXA | XAA | EXA | XAA |
Option "EnablePageFlip" |  1  |  1  |  0  |  0  |  1  |  1  |  0  |  0  |
Option "ColorTiling"    |  1  |  1  |  0  |  0  |  0  |  0  |  1  |  1  |
         FPS  640x480   | 140 | 150 |  81 |  81 |  82 |  86 | 139 | 139 |  
         FPS  800x600   |  95 | 108 |  53 |  53 |  53 |  57 |  96 |  95 |  
         FPS 1024x768   |  59 |  68 |  32 |  32 |  32 |  34 |  59 |  59 |   

*** stablest                                 
+++ fastest
--- slowest

by Paul Heldens, Thu Aug 10 00:55:28 CEST 2006

CategoryTroubleshooting

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