Video terrible and mouse slow

[AndrewIsLord]

I just got the game and extracted it. I tried playing it but the mouse is extremely slow. Also, the video looks terrible. It's remind me of the first Wolfenstein game, but a little worse. I'm using Fedora 8 and my video is ATI Radeon Mobility 16 mb. I tried the mouse fix in the faq, the "viddga 0; vidrestart" but it says viddga is an unknown command.

[AndrewIsLord]

I tried putting the _ in vid_dga like it says on the faq file but it didn't change anything. Also, the mouse and video work fine while it's showing me the flash screens but once it gets to the part where I have the 3 choices the problem starts.

[esteel]

First of all: Are you sure you installed 'real' 3D drivers? Most linux distributions do not install them by default for legal and idealistic reasons. What does this output when entered in the console?

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glxinfo | grep -i string\\\|direct

Then the ati drivers for linux are not as good as their windows counterparts and also mobility cards usually do not have much power. Especially if the card has only 16mb. Basicly Nexuiz needs around 100mb or graphic ram at good settings. It might work if you enable texture compression or use lower texture quality.

The mouse thing and uglyness might be a problem of your system just being too weak for Nexuiz. At good settings it can look like this: http://planetnexuiz.de/images/stories/n ... w/high.jpg

[AndrewIsLord]

I found out about 20 minutes after I started the thread that I don't have any graphics acceleration and have been trying to work on it. I posted at the Fedora forums http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/sho ... p?t=187984.
If you have any advice on how to fix this it would be very much appreciated.

Here is the output for that command:

glxinfo | grep -i string\\\|direct
direct rendering: No (If you want to find out why, try setting LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose)
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
client glx vendor string: SGI
client glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect
OpenGL version string: 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.0.3)


I'm aware of the problems with ATI and Linux. Especially with Fedora
I realize that my video card sucks. But on low settings I can handle most games that aren't too new or have high system requirements. I have 512 mb of RAM, with 512 more coming in the mail, and a P3 1.2, so I should be able to play this on low settings without too many problems, I think anyway. I'm not completely sure what the video requirements are for this game. It says Gefore2 but there were a lot of those. Maybe I should try this in Windows to see how well this will work. I've played games with much higher requirements without problems, but in Windows.

I think it's just a problem with my video drivers. I don't know if the mouse thing is caused by the same problem. It's not just the mouse that's slow, even typing in console is slow. Each letter takes a second to display. I'll look into that after the video thing is solved. I don't think it's a big problem. However, since I'm not great in Linux it will probably take me a while to figure out. Hopefully someone will respond at the Fedora forum.

[esteel]

glxinfo | grep -i string\\\|direct
direct rendering: No (If you want to find out why, try setting LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose)

I'm aware of the problems with ATI and Linux. Especially with Fedora
I realize that my video card sucks. But on low settings I can handle most games that aren't too new or have high system requirements. I have 512 mb of RAM, with 512 more coming in the mail, and a P3 1.2, so I should be able to play this on low settings without too many problems, I think anyway. I'm not completely sure what the video requirements are for this game. It says Gefore2 but there were a lot of those. Maybe I should try this in Windows to see how well this will work. I've played games with much higher requirements without problems, but in Windows.

I think it's just a problem with my video drivers. I don't know if the mouse thing is caused by the same problem. It's not just the mouse that's slow, even typing in console is slow. Each letter takes a second to display. I'll look into that after the video thing is solved. I don't think it's a big problem. However, since I'm not great in Linux it will probably take me a while to figure out. Hopefully someone will respond at the Fedora forum.

The line with 'direct rendering' basicly tells you that you do not have 3d drivers installed. You can use that to check if your installiation succeded

Well Nexuiz is quite scalable indeed at low settings it should run on old/weak cards too, i'm just VERY unsure about the 16mb thing..Thats not very much and every game more recent then 6 years should use LOTS more and usually do not really look good if brought down to fit. But i think we can take care of this when you have your drivers installed

[AndrewIsLord]

This has turned out to be a much bigger problem then I thought it would be. Luckily I'm getting a lot of help at the Fedora forums. All from one guy. 3 pages of posts in less than 2 days and still no luck. I guess xorg.conf won't let me change my resolution low enough to allow direct rendering.