Doom3 on a Radeon 9600 w/ X11R6.8.1

[Marc Poulhiès]

Roland Mainz <gisburn at gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 17:02:57 +0200, Roland Mainz <gisburn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Please use your OWN GMail account and not the next available unlocked
> terminal. xx@@@@!!!!##@@!.
>
>> A quick question before I waste my time with downloading the Doom3
>
> I already downloaded it for all who are interested here - see
> /shared/bigtmp/gisburn/download/doom3/
>
>> demo for Linux:
>> Does X11R6.8.1 on a Radeon9600 support the Doom3 demo?
>
> No, I tried it tonight, it doesn't work with the normal lab machines.
> And http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/doom/ even lists the Radeon
> issue in the FAQ.

Hi,

Seems that with this patch: 
http://homepage.hispeed.ch/rscheidegger/dri_experimental/s3tc_index.html

You can make Doom3 works (see dri-devel mailing list) but don't expect
something very good :)

Marc