[geeks] bzflag is fun

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 12:09:12PM -0400, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> On my PIII-900mhz Dell laptop (ATI Mobility graphics, Linux):
> geometry sucks
> shadows and lighting render it unuseable
> texturing is out of the question
> 
> I'm very impressed with the O2, I expected worse performance for some
> reason.  I'm severely disappointed with the laptop.  I know it's not
> supposed to be a graphics powerhouse, but I would expect something
> decent from it.  No matter anyway, I can't see myself using to it play
> games - it's my 'work' laptop and I only loaded BZFlag to test
> performance against my <sarcasm> slow </sarcasm> machines.  I might test
> BZFlag for Windows on an identical laptop tonight if I get a chance...

ATI Mobilities really suck, that is the main problem here.  Well, there is
also the little fact that PIII suck for normal floating point.  With 
significant PIII specific optimization, I bet that bzflag could be twice as
fast, except for there is still a Mobility in the way.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd