Recent content by Fro

I would be more than happy to playtest the 1.0pre on linux when it's ready.

@Fink I have never tried to run an OpenGL app under the nv driver. The NVidia driver is far far better than the nv driver that comes with XFree86 (or XOrg) and is definately worth the effort to install. I can't comment on Fedora core 3, but the driver installs painlessly on Mandrake 10...

Couldn't have been. There were only about 5 ships in the system. At this point I'm pretty well convinced that my video driver just barfed.

Here's one for you, hellcatv. I was smoking along on my machine, averaging around 80-100 FPS. I jumped into Aldebran to do battle with some cats and something went totally screwy. My CPU jumped to 100% and the game turned into a slide show at less than one frame per second. I had to exit...

LOL Your network sounds a lot like mine. All of my machines predate the wife and baby (from a long forgotten time when I had money :-) I think there's a possibility that Santa Claus (or Mrs. Claus, as the case may be) might be bringing me a new mainboard with an Athlon 2200 on it. Maybe...

Definately go with the NVidia card if you can. NVidia's drivers are quite solid. If your current card is old or manufactured by some oddball manufacturer the OpenGL support could leave a lot to be desired.

A tad off topic... Out of curiosity, how well do you fare against large numbers of fighters like that? When I first saw one of those bounty missions where the target has some ridiculous number of escorts (30 for the mission I accepted) I thought "yeah, right, must be a bug or something" and...

wow... good luck with that. My linux box is a rather old p3 700, but it's got a newish NVidia FX card. Runs pretty sweet.

@hellcatv - Is there anything in particular that you want checked out on the linux port? I got it up and going last night and have started working my way through the story line. This is easily one of the best games available on Linux, by the way.