Whoa! All I can say is I moved my Geforce 256 DDR card from my celeron 500 system (windows) to my Athlon 700 (my linux box, previously with a Matrox G400) and ran a timedemo demo001 in Q3A first thing. Boy, was I amazed. With 1024x768 (no lightmap, geometry set to low, and 16bit color/textures) I was getting over 112 fps! I almost shit myself. I cranked up the color depth and textures to 32bit, changed to lightmap, set geometry to high, and cranked up the texture detail, and I was still getting 50fps... I am amazed... closed source or not, these drivers are amazing...
This type of info is often the easiest and most often collected snippet around. How many times do people visit a website, and the counter goes off, dropping in a cookie on the users computer, all the while adding their OS version, browser version, and ip address to a database. This info is available to anyone with a simple cgi. take this for example:
I do not take offense to this... you can see it in the dedicated server terminal. And being a test, I do not think id is in the wrong. Although I would have like them to put an extra line next to "this is not an official demo, this is a test" saying they will be gathering info on the users running their test, and what it is they are looking for.
Does anyone know if there are any command line options for the dedicated server, such as start map rotation, add bots, etc? i'd like to add it to a startup script. =]
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Whoa! All I can say is I moved my Geforce 256 DDR card from my celeron 500 system (windows) to my Athlon 700 (my linux box, previously with a Matrox G400) and ran a timedemo demo001 in Q3A first thing. Boy, was I amazed. With 1024x768 (no lightmap, geometry set to low, and 16bit color/textures) I was getting over 112 fps! I almost shit myself. I cranked up the color depth and textures to 32bit, changed to lightmap, set geometry to high, and cranked up the texture detail, and I was still getting 50fps... I am amazed... closed source or not, these drivers are amazing...
When selecting parts for my athlon 800 system I was putting together, I immediately bought a Matrox G400.
works great for me... I've been playing Quake3Arena all weekend w/o a hitch
Works great with my Creative Annihilator Pro card
I almost wet myself after installing the Q3 demo... and it just started up
btw... every day I am more impressed with the Loki installer.
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "Enviroment
Variables";
foreach $env_var (keys %ENV) {
print " $env_var is set to $ENV{$env_var}";
}
$blah = $ENV{'HTTP_USER_AGENT'};
@info = split(/;/, $blah);
print $info[1];
print "";
I do not take offense to this... you can see it in the dedicated server terminal. And being a test, I do not think id is in the wrong. Although I would have like them to put an extra line next to "this is not an official demo, this is a test" saying they will be gathering info on the users running their test, and what it is they are looking for.
Just my 2 cents
Actually, getting paid to make OSS is not uncommon. And it may just become the next biggest thing.