Anyone running RtCW?

[Steve Snyder]

I'm playing with Return to Castle Wolfenstein. There's 2 problem in my environment: general low performance and the sky is very distorted.

My software: RedHat v7.1 + RH-released updates+ /w kernel 2.4.12. XFree86 v4.0.3 + latest Matrox drivers.

My hardware: dual P3/850 CPU and 512MB RAM. Video is G400MAX.

The G400MAX is now a fairly old card, so I'm not surprised about the perforamnce. The sky, however, is criss-crossed with lines.

Anyone else see this behavior?

Thanks.

[leech]

I tried it out on Mandrake 8.1 with my Marvel G400-TV P3-850 and it ran like crap. It runs pretty good on my Radeon 64DDR. I think part of it is the DRI drivers for the Matrox cards are missing something. But then again, I think the Radeon ones are too. Also I'd like to say that in Linux Return to Castle Wolfenstein runs better than the Windows version. At least in my experience. Do you happen to know how to get it to run without running it as root? For whenever I'd play it in linux, I'd have to run it as root. Very odd indeed.

Leech

[Steve Snyder]

Anyone running RtCW?

>Do you happen to know how to get it to run without running it as root?

Yes. Install it as a normal user (not root) into a location beneath your home directory. You can run it from there.

The problem is that the RtCW demo writes to the program directory at runtime. This means that you must have write permissions to that directory to get the game to work. Installing the game to your home directory insures that you can write to the installed game directory without being root.

[leech]

Got ya. Thanks. Though that's kind of annoying when you have a multi-user environment.... hope they fix that for the final.

Leech