2 problems with starting nexuiz

[Urmel]

Now please press the "Start" Button, choose "run" (or what's the corresponding command in your language) and type in DXDIAG then enter. A window with a DirectX Diagnostic program pops up and soon you can choose the tab "display". There you can quite exactly see which graphics adapter is working in your rig. Take a screenshot and post it please.

[Kitsune Inari]

Similar problem here: Nexuiz closes with the same symptoms, and I have a SiS Mirage Graphics too.

Card: SiS 661, 64Mb
Driver: 6.14.0010.3680
(in)Operative System: XP home SP2
Computer: Desktop ACER, Pentium IV 3GHz

With a SiS 760 you might forget about playing any 3D game actually.

Except for OpenArena (OpenGL), and Narbacular Drop (although it's DX9), and Hinokakera (same), and I Was an Atomic Mutant, and some others I can't remember right now; all these play fine in my computer.
Anyways, I don't think that OpenGL games don't run on a SiS by default. And Nexuiz's engine is based on the Quake 3 too, ¿isn't it?

[C.Brutail]

No, it's not. Nexuiz runs on the DarkPlaces engine (almost completely rewritten GLQuake, although it shares as much lines of code with the original GLQuake as DooM3).

[Kitsune Inari]

So I was both right (DarkPlaces is based on GLQuake) and wrong (DarkPlaces has as much in common with GLQuake as vampires in Marvel Comics's 'Blade' have with Dracula), with more emphasis in the "wrong" part. I have to get a real graphics card asap.

Thank you.

[Urbanshenkie]

Do you have amd64 ? and did you install sis agp drivers ?

[Urbanshenkie]

sis760 AGP broken on amd64
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... +bug/34144

AGP does't work with an SIS760 motherboard and a geforce 6200 or other agp cards
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... +bug/45942

its linux but its also broken in xp

try to change the agp apeture size in the bios from 4 mb to 256 mb , after reboot it probley changed back to 4mb

The problem is caused by the amd64_agp and sis_agp drivers running into each other.

[Urbanshenkie]

DRI bug with sis760 and agp card...
that happens if you use sis760 chipset with agp cards
something to do with agp apeture size

DRI ("Direct Rendering Infrastructure") is the basis for OpenGL and hardware 3D acceleration. Without DRI, X.org/XFree86 will use software rendering for OpenGL and 3D which is really slow

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/free ... 00161.html

its linux but doesnt mather for now just search for sis760 no DRI in google its a bug with agp apeture size it always stays on 4 mb or somthing

[Urbanshenkie]

its easy to fix in linux but i will try to find a fix for xp http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1082780

did you ever installed agp drivers ?

http://www.whitebunny.net/hardware/chipset_sis.html

becasue you canot assign memory to the video card without agp drivers
thats why agp apeture size higher then 4mb not work or agp x8 in the bios
and then you dont get DRI but black screen and crash