[L3mMinG (old)]

I've got an athlon with geforce3 set up with debian testing and beryl using the nvidia method (it works superb on a gf3 if you use nvidia 96.31 drivers).

Quake3 and doom 3 run with the whole beryl thing still up and running, but speed isn't quite what it is without beryl. I put in this little hack in the quake3 startup script where it does kill `pidof beryl` and after quake3.x86 starts it up again. Works quite well (k, sometimes I have to reload the window decorator after q3 but I can live with that).

Anyone know if there's a more clean way to enable quake3 full speed by disabling beryl in some automated way and resurrect it after the game ? (well for any full screen openGL game really)

Beware for people trying beryl: you will lose time just playing with this thing and eventually get so used to the eye candy that anything non-beryl will look like utter crap... 

[Woekele]

Some tips I found in other forums, dunno if they actually work:

general/options: "Undredirect Fullscreen windows" and in "window management/set window attribs": disable ARGB visual for quake3.

Also you could try disabling GY Yield setting...

[L3mMinG (old)]

You are right, disabling redirecting for full screen windows fixes quake3 up good. However... when quitting quake3 the screen stays black unless I go to a terminal and kill beryl. Hope they will fix this.


edit: hmm I took quake3 out of the disable ARGBVisuals again and turned of the wine legacy background support thingie so just turning on the unredirect full screen windows does the trick. I hope my geforce3 will run 4.0 just fine hehe

[MrBecks (old)]

Why don't you just switch to your normal wm and afterwards back to beryl?!

uhm you're playing Q3 with WINE?!

[Woekele]

Ye, I was also wondering what whine had to do with it

[L3mMinG (old)]

Actually wine has nothing to do with it, but it was one of 3 options I changed. The option being "Enable workarounds for certain wine and legacy windows". Just meant that the only thing that has to be altered is making sure the unredirect full screen windows option is checked and quake3 runs excellent in full screen. Lol playing quake3 on linux with wine... you guys are funny 

[MrBecks (old)]

There are a few peeps out there who play it with WINE 

[mitsubishi]

I tried to run id's q3 with wine since it appeared it'd be a great way to get alsa support with pb but pb would kick with a similar error as running pb on vista or early vista. I should have thought about this way to get alsa support before gpl q3's release though..

[tanq (old)]

Just like MrBeck said.. switch to another WM when you are playing games. 
I wasn't about to spend more time jacking with Beryl and gaming when I could just switch to XFWM or fluxbox in a few seconds.

Beryl is a game in itself though. 

[Woekele]

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Beryl is a game in itself though. 

so true!