From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 14 8:25:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0204F37B401; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 08:25:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts16.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4CF743EAA; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 08:25:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmagda@number6.dyndns.org) Received: from number6.magda.ca ([64.229.178.211]) by tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with ESMTP id <20021114162508.YBPE15542.tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net@number6.magda.ca>; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 11:25:08 -0500 Received: from number6.magda.ca (localhost.magda.ca [127.0.0.1]) by number6.magda.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAEGP7BR096274 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Thu, 14 Nov 2002 11:25:07 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dmagda@number6.dyndns.org) Received: (from dmagda@localhost) by number6.magda.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gAEGP6fJ096201; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 11:25:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dmagda@number6.dyndns.org) X-Authentication-Warning: number6.magda.ca: dmagda set sender to dmagda@number6.magda.ca using -f To: Jason Andresen Cc: Pierrick Brossin , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NVidia - Games References: <1037083524.3dd0a3841f968@www.swissgeeks.com> <3DD137FF.33E03A8F@mitre.org> Reply-To: dmagda@ee.ryerson.ca From: David Magda Date: 14 Nov 2002 11:25:06 -0500 In-Reply-To: <3DD137FF.33E03A8F@mitre.org> Message-ID: <86el9o3yql.fsf@number6.magda.ca> Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jason Andresen writes: [...] > Finally, make sure you have $__GL_SINGLE_THREADED set to 1 or Quake > will crash when you try to start it. (Oddly, Return to Castle > Wolfenstein had no such problem). [...] RtCW is single-threaded as far as I know. The admin of one of the server (Charter) once said that on their dual-CPU server that one CPU is always at 100%, and the other is idling. Remeber that RtCW was a Windows games first, and how good is Windows with threading? (Especially the Win9x series.) -- David Magda Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, _The Prince_, Chapter VI To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message