[TriLUG] bzflag thermal runaway on wintel

[Jason Tower]

don't waste your time trying to get bzflag running on a mini-itx board, the 
integrated video doesn't have the cajones to do the job and an extra PCI 
video card is expensive and defeats the whole purpose of a mini-itx system.  
plus, the FPU on the mini-itx boards runs at only half the CPU clock speed, 
which hurts graphical apps even more.  i tried bz once on my epia 5000 and it 
was painful to say the least.

you don't need a high-end system to play a good game of bz, a fast PII or PIII 
combined with a decent 3D video card will give more than acceptable 
performance.  even a old TNT2 card worked quite well for me, and geforce2 
cards can be had very inexpensively.

good luck, and see you on the game field!

jason

On Sunday 22 June 2003 08:55, Jim Ray wrote:
> I found this animal:
> 128MB GeForce4 MX440SE w/ TV Out, DDR $69
>
> The teenie weenie power supply on one box wouldn't give up to go with 3d
> bzflag graphics.  I'm wondering if I'd be better off building up another
> box w/ 300W supply, super flammer turbo whapper and replacing my aging
> 4.7 MHz 8088.  I'd hate to waste a whole stick of butter fitting the
> GeForce in the ISA slot.
>
> On a more serious note, how do you switch apps from bzflag to evolution
> or whatever?  Any way to run bz in a separate winder, uh, I mean X
> session?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gnu Man [mailto:gnu_man at earthlink.net]
> Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2003 11:13 PM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: RE: [TriLUG] bzflag thermal runaway on wintel
>
>
> Nvidia has pretty good support for drivers etc.
>
> In case you weren't aware. ;)
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