$ java -version java version "1.6.0_02" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_02-b05) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 1.6.0_02-b05, mixed mode)
Using run.sh, I get... disappointingly... Warning ! True full-screen support is not available. The system is a dual core pentium d (3.6 GHz) x86_64 with 3 Gb RAM. The graphics card is a NVIDIA 7600 GT running a true nvidia driver compiled on this machine. 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7600 GT] (rev a1) I don't know if running dual-monitors messes with performance, and do not know much about graphics acceleration as I'm no power gamer since my hardware is pretty old (except for this box which is a sort of loaner), but I believe it is possible since TuxRacer rocks even with only 17" monitor, you get a wierd feeling like you are really going down the slope. The jxclient is very slow. It feels like the character is heavily burdened, so is very hard to control. Compared to both GTK clients, it is not very playable, so I suppose it is not taking advantage of hardware acceleration :-(. So far I have not had it crash. I've played a bit with it, though at 1280x1024 it is only using about 1024x800 or so for the display, so I need a magnifying glass to see in game text and inventory and the little buttons. It's odd because the map graphics are in your face big compared to how I run the GTK clients. Unfortunately I only have 17" monitors on this machine. The graphics work is beautiful, but I must be a geek... it kind of gets in the way, though to be fair, I'd have to see it using the full 1280x1024 to give it a reasonable evaluation, but I find it really hard to monitor HP, Grace, and Mana. The small veins in the icons seem to take a lot of concentration to be able to monitor. To me the fast pace of crossfire means you can't spend a lot of time looking to see how bad you're hurting or what you have left for mana/grace. Don't know if that stuff is skinnable and so might be able to be done differently to taste. That dragon thing can about freak you out with a low-level character when you walk around a corner the right way ;-). It will be interesting to see it mature... I, and other people played the dxclient years ago because it had a bit of ambiance to it, and I've often been sorry it disappeared, so I can see jxclient going over well if performance improves, but the lag now would kill my character... literally... and I'd hate to think I had to buy better hardware to get it. Long and short of it is, I'm glad I took the time to figure out how to build it. It'll be interesting to watch. Oh, the speed thing reminds me... Daimonin sort of caught my eye some time back, and I played it a while, though quit. It was too slow. There's some talk about slowing Crossfire down, and I'm all about not dying before you can even press the word of recall hotkey, but here's my vote to not go that slow... though I haven't tried it in ages to be sure my impressions were up to date. Wish list: Scroll wheel support. _______________________________________________ crossfire mailing list crossfire@metalforge.org http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire