Ryan Gordon Ports HGE To Linux, Then Releases Code

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Ryan Gordon Ports HGE To Linux, Then Releases Code

Ryan Gordon has just written on the Wolfire blog about porting the HGE engine to Linux and Mac OS X operating systems...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=OTc1OQ

[sloggerKhan]

Eh, if hammerfight is an example, it's still got a long way to go.
Hammerfight is impossible to play on my 2.1 GHZ dual core AMD w/ 4gigs of ram and an nvidia 8600gt... Ticks along at like 4 - 14 FPS.
Seriously unplayable. And it's just a 2-D game.

[timofonic]

buy a new computer. its a 2d game but rendered in 3D!

i do have an quatcore 3,8ghz phenom II B50 x4 and a 4670 right now.

really don't blame the game buy a new computer.

That's too much sarcasm for a nerdy place like here... :P

Really... What's wrong with today's software? It eats hardware resources like crazy...

[RealNC]

Your system exceeds the minimum system requirements. So you don't need a new PC:

System requirements:
CPU: 2.0 GHz (x86 compatible)
RAM: 256 MB
GPU: OpenGL-compatible with 64 MB VRAM

Maybe you're using an open source driver (they're very slow). That would be the most probable cause for the performance issues.

[Nait]

Hammerfight is impossible to play on my 2.1 GHZ dual core AMD w/ 4gigs of ram and an nvidia 8600gt... Ticks along at like 4 - 14 FPS.

Take a look here:

https://bugzilla.icculus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5105

Maybe opening
~/.local/share/Hammerfight/Config.ini and changing the line:
CORE_USE_SLEEP=true
to
CORE_USE_SLEEP=false
will help you.

[Apopas]

That guy is a diamond

[RealNC]

if you wana run a game worst ever you use the "minimum system requirements"

No. For worst ever, you need a below-minimum system.

The game in question is not demanding. It's not even real 3D.

[sloggerKhan]

I'm looking in to that bug report conf file change, but for the record I get fine frame rates at relatively high settings using 1680x1050 or whatever resolution is supported for cogs and steelstorm and I use nvidia's binary driver.

Update: that conf file change worked wonders.


I admit my hardware is dated, but I don't think there's any excuse for it not playing humble bundle type games.