Whenever I try to run Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory it will play the startup video and then ask me to enter some starting settings.
But after the video the framerate drops well below one and I, for some reason, can’t move or see my mouse.
What’s going on here?
Are my video drivers way out of date or something?
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The framerate drop occurs during the setting screen, right after the movie. I can still access the console with the ~ key though, but the framerate prevents me from typing anything correctly. I have an ATI card by the way, and I’ve heard ATI and linux don’t get along so well. Also, I’m a complete noob to linux so I would appreciate if you would explain what’s wrong in detail so I can learn how to fix similar errors in the future.
If desktop effects are running, opengl games will run very slowly. Turn desktop effects off and try again.
I am having the same problem. I am running KDE 3.5.10. Is there any other way of fixing this, without disabling the effects?
Desktop effects use your graphics card. If you plan on gaming at the same time, don’t expect things to run well.
The idea behind this it that there is no performance penalty when running a game if You turn off Desktop Effects. If memory server me right if You have correct drivers you need to tick “Unredirect Fullscreen Windows” in General Options? Somebody correct me with this one.
Second solution would be to make a script turning off Desktop Effects when starting the game but i don’t think that Desktop Effects make your game so unplayable. You either haven’t got correct drivers as ET is quite old and i think it’ll comfortably runs on a toaster:D
I don’t have sound in et-wolf on openSUSE 11.1
Anyone with a solution to this?
Thanks!
That is actually an old trick to do mate 
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