| From: | Mark Olsen |
| Date: | 10 Apr 2000 at 15:17:15 |
| Subject: | Re: StormMesa and Warp3D V3 |
Hello DJNick
On 10-Apr-00, you wrote:
>> I hardly believe that the Warp3D libraries themselves are the reason.
>> Otherwise there would be more such reports (and I also use the latest
>> libs and don't experience such problems). If you still have the
>> old libs, replace the new ones with them to do some tests. For now
>> I have no idea about the cause of these problems.
> So it happened to him too? Interesting. The same thing happens to me here.
> Sometimes (!?) StormMesa demos are asking for ScreenMode to chose. And
> sometimes it just works on Workbench. What it might be?
> Also, sometimes it happens that some demos are playing sooo sloooow, and
> when reboot & try again - they work good. Very strange.
> Here is one thing I don't get it:
> When I had 040 ppc on 200 mhz, DISTORT demo worked fantastic and every time
> I started it opened on Workbench! Only once (!) it started to work on
> separate 24bit full screen (!?) even screen mode choser never appeared.
> Now when I have 060 ppc on 166mhz - Distort does NOT work anymore. Amiga
> just freezes when attempt to start RunDistort icon.
> Any ideas?
Actully, my problem is that it ALWAYS runs slow. Not only sometimes. And your
problem might be that you don't have enough memory left on your gfx card, and
it then runs the program in non-hw mode. Try setting mesa/stats to 1 and see.
Regards