System and Software Requirements
Is glibc-2.0 supported?
Quake III will run on a glibc-2.0 based system if you have a 3D card
based on a 3Dfx chipset. Matrox G200/G400 users must install Quake III on
a glibc-2.1 based system.
Please remember that you should upgrade your glibc-2.0 system to XFree86
SVGA 3.3.5 and the latest matching Glide2. You should really upgrade to
glibc-2.1 as soon as feasible.
Are TNT or TNT2 cards supported?
At the time of this writing, the GL available from www.nvidia.com is
based on Mesa-3.0 and XFree86 SVGA 3.3.3. This combination does work
correctly with Quake III (apart from a few visual artifacts) but the
framerate performance is poor -- approximately 15-20 frames per second on
the fastest systems. Because nVidia has not released register
specifications yet, the efforts to add TNT support to the "Utah"
Accelerated GLX have not progressed to the point where we could
reasonably support them. We have successfully tested nVidia's early
release during QA, and you will find information on how to use it on
http://www.lokigames.com/support/gldrivers/. nVidia has announced a new
Linux OpenGL release for "First Quarter, 2000," and we will test this as
soon as released.
Are ATI Rage/Rage Pro/128/Fury cards supported?
At the time of this writing, we are testing an ATI driver for Quake
III. We hope to release this Real Soon Now.
ATI has made the necessary hardware and programming information available to Linux developers for Rage Pro and Rage 128 2D, 3D and video capture development. To help ensure support is made available ATI has engaged Precision Insight to write 2D and 3D drivers for the ATI Rage 128 product family. These drivers will be released open source when completed.
This is a XFree86-4/DRI release, presumably.
What version of Mesa can I use, and how do I get it?
The latest official release is Mesa 3.1, available from
www.mesa3d.org. Bug fixes and patches have been, and will be, applied to
Mesa 3.2., the mesa_3_2_dev branch. If you have problems with Mesa 3.1,
you should try 3.2 from the CVS. Mesa 3.2 is the current stable release,
freezing Mesa 3.1. It is not recommended to use 3.3, which is an unstable
pre-release, and is subject to major architectural changes in connection
to the XFree86-4 release.
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.mesa3d.org:/cvs/mesa3d login cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.mesa3d.org:/cvs/mesa3d co -r mesa_3_2_dev MesaBack to Questions