Help with 3D games...

[david]

On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 12:26, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> I just replaced my ATI card with the on-board Nvidia Geforce2.
> I have installed the driver and all that, and OpenGL works fine.
> I tried a couple OpenGL games for test purposes : Foobillard, Billard-gl,
> and Tuxracer. They all work perfectly with good frame rates.
> 
> BUT, the game I happen to be really interested in, somehow doesn't turn 3D on !
> It doesn't report any error in the terminal window, and in the
> "graphics" option menu, it clearly states that it sees the Graphics
> card, and that 3D is turned ON !
> But it's not, the graphics are exactly the same (extremely 'blocky') as
> when I force software rendering (for comparison purposes of course) with 
> the --software_rendering command line option.
> 
> The game is a Helicopter flight simulator called "SearchAndRescue'.
> You can find it in Synaptic in Universe. It takes only a few megabytes,
> a matter of seconds if you have broadband.
> 
> I would be really soooo greateful if some people could install it, turn
> all the 3D options on (textures, clouds etc...) and tell me if it
> works ? and maybe show me a screen capture ?
> 
> Here is a link to a screen capture I just made...very blocky...
> 
> http://www.007.org.uk/~vtrouilliez/temp/pic.jpg
> 

Vince,

I got the game up and running, but I don't have any kind of joystick so
after a couple of minutes sitting on the runway I gave up.
In the options for the game I noticed you could set the screen res and
toggle fullscreen on/off. Maybe up the screen res?

David