Re: Torcs 1.3.1 system requirements

Hi José


> hi, I've just installed Torcs 1.3.1 on my system. While with 1.3.0 I have 
> nearly 50 fps, 1.3.1 only gives 3/4 fps!
> 
> Has something changed so much in Torcs? I am using opensource radeon drivers 
> with Mesa 7.0.3 (Mandriva 2008 Spring).
> 
> Thanks
> 
> CPU Pentium M 1733MHz
> RAM 1,5GB
> GPU Ati Radeon X600 Mobility with 64MB


Technically in TORCS nothing has changed regarding this, but on the content side
a lot happened, so most car textures now consume ~4 times more memory, and some
tracks look much better, this requires all more memory for the textures, so when
the graphics memory runs out the textures must be fetched from "ordinary"
memory, this is very slow.

You can go to the OpenGL settings in TORCS and reduce the "max texture size",
try as example 256 and look if this helps.

Hope this helps

Bernhard

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