Re: Quake 4

["Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith@ieee.org>]

Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org> wrote:
> My copy of Quake 4 showed up yesterday, so this morning I
> checked for an ETA on Linux binaries and was surprised to
> find out that they were released last Thursday.
>   http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/quake4/
> On my system, sound is a little choppy for some reason, but
> other than that, it looks *really* nice and plays great.

Try disabling the 3D output of your sound card (typically
done at module-load time, hence /etc/modules.conf or
modprobe.conf).

Or try throwing in a quality sound card that doesn't taxi the
PCI bus like a Creative Audigy series or newer.  I finally
just went back to an Audigy2 ZX on my Athlon64 recently and
I'm very glad I did versus the on-board ALC850 when it came
to CPU (and, therefore, constrained PCI) load.

Only a few vendors out there add logic to the Realtek ALC
codecs to cut the load 1/4th.


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