in response to myself, the pegasos website (at least the au reseller) doesnt make a big deal out of the agp bus. infact it just calls it an agp 'slot' not a bus. which makes my old voodoo3 3500tv an appealing choice if i had such a motherboard
so they have weezled their way out of providing proper agp support. making my hard earned (ok thats debatable, i work in IT) cash less likely to transfer to their accounts i can probably get a second hand g4 1ghz for cheaper anyway... *shrug* Dean On Sun, January 23, 2005 12:08 am, Dean Hamstead said: > pegasosii has no true AGP? *shudder* > > and to think i was planning on buying on > > how many people are using pegasos machines? > > Dean > > On Sat, January 22, 2005 11:48 pm, Sven Luther said: >> On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 11:23:57AM -0500, Michel Dänzer wrote: >>> On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 11:03 +0100, Bartosz Soko??owski wrote: >>> > >>> > I discovered strange behavior of QuakeII. In software rendering mode >>> it >>> > works fine (20-30FPS) but looks ugly. In GL mode it looks much better >>> but >>> > performace is VERY bad. When I start the game I have approx 80FPS but >>> when >>> > I see some opponents and start shooting them the performance drops >>> > dramatically to 5FPS!!!!! CPU load at this moment is about 30-40% >>> > accorting to top, so it doesn't seem to be CPU load problem. >>> > Can someone explain me whats wrong? >>> >>> For one, the lightmapping method used by the Quake 2 engine is known to >>> work very inefficiently with the free DRI drivers. Try >>> >>> set gl_ext_multitexture "0" >>> >>> in config.cfg. >> >> Nice to know. >> >>> > I did some investigation and found out that my Radeon 8500 works in >>> PCI >>> > mode, not AGP mode (see log file below). May it be a problem?? How to >>> > force Radeon to AGP mode?? >>> >>> AFAIK the Pegasos doesn't actually have an AGP bridge. >> >> Indeed, it only has a pci-x slot which is camouflaged as AGP, for the >> sake >> of >> using cheap agp cards, and not having to go for pci ones. >> >> BTW, Michel, i have been getting reports of DRI not working on pegasos 2 >> with >> PCI radeon cards, do you have access to such a card and could maybe test >> the >> truth of this claim ? >> >> Friendly, >> >> Sven Luther >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
