On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Matthias Saou wrote: > Once upon a time, Pieter wrote : > > > On Monday 18 November 2002 07:15, Fogle Cpl Shawn B wrote: > > > Did you uncomment > > > > > > X86_ASM_68000 = 1 > > > X11_MITSHM = 1 > > > > I had the second one, not the first one. My testgame was gradius2, which > > now that I've recompiled with the first option uncommented as well runs > > very well indeed! Scaling left something to be desired, but I'll try xv > > and other options to see how it performs. Also, the suggestion to add a > > few lines to my x configuration will be given a try as well. > > For scaling, if you have a good and quite recent video chip, xv is probably > what you're looking for as you'll get all games in fullscreen by using > hardware scaling (less cpu intensive). > I really missed OpenGL (xgl) fullscreen mode when switching from a GeForce > 2MX (with NVidia's binary drivers) to an SiS onboard chipset that didn't > have accelerated drivers for Linux... but it does support xv, and I'm now > *very* happy with that since all games are now playable in fullscreen and > fast enough for me (e.g. all mslug and street fighters, even the latest run > fine). > > Matthias > >
One thing OpenGL from nvidia's binaries has in advantage on xv is syncing to vblank. I can't remember which environment variable you should set, as i am not at home, but you can find it in README. Andre. _______________________________________________ Xmame mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://toybox.twisted.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/xmame
