I'll give it a go. 

Let me know if you need any help. I'll set up a FreeBSD VM. 

You did a great job.. And SDL is awesome. Took me a few hours to install wxWidgets and codeblocks - just dependancies and stupid little things really. SDL-fitzquake compiled as soon as i disabled warnings. ;> Sound, video mode switching, "-game travail", and game saves all seem fine.

It benched faster in FreeBSD than Linux too. (~Perhaps~ it's the different nvidia driver version - My BSD has a much newer one). Timedemo demo1 was 376 fps versus 326 fps at 800x600x16, FX5600, Sempron 3400+. 

It would be awesome if we could include your changes into SVN and provide a FreeBSD binary for everyone. Did you create a new project for FreeBSD or did you just use the Linux project? 

I didn't make any changes 8>, just opened the Linux project, disabled warnings, and built the release target. First-up I did copy the pl_linux to pl_freebsd.. though whether this was necessary, i'd have to check. 

timedemo demo1
machine amd 2300BE (2x 1,9 Ghz), nvidia 7200gs 256
Ubuntu 8.04

1280x1024 32bpp

wine sdlfitzquake: 130 fps
no vsync no refreshrate adjustment

wine fitzquake 080: 93 fps
refreshrate adjustment possible no vsync

linuxsdlfitzquake: about 90, no fullscreen at desktop resolution, no vsync, no refreshrate adjustment 

Wow - that is not what I would have expected at all. And there's no vsync at all no matter what you try on that machine? That's odd. Does it work in other games? 

Vsync only by forcing it via nvidia-settings manager.
Haven't installed other games.
wine version is 1.0 

If you intend to distribute SDLFitz for FBSD, for the love of god, make a port (as in, a package for the FreeBSD ports system) and submit it upstream instead of distributing it in binary form. 

The 7200gs might be the culprit?

Pentium-M 1.2GHz, Geforce 6600GT, 173. driver
All 1280x1024x32

wine fitzquake080.exe: ~225 (had to run in window)
wine sdlfitzquake.exe: ~175
fitzquake (sdl): ~350 

that sounds more like it, Spirit. I get about 300 fps in OS X.

Jago: I'm not making any ports myself, since I don't have much interest in anything else than the OS X port. But if you want to do it, let me know what you need. 

the 7200gs is a 64 bit low end card, You can't compare it with a 6600gt.

with a 6000+ and a 8500gt I got at least three times faster results, but wine is always 25% faster than the linux version.

Same thing with quake4,Doom3,Prey
1152x864 high, 8500gt
quake4.x86 40fps
quake4.exe 55fps 

Don't know if anyone else had this issue... but looking at benchmarks this week i found i had a bit of a slow-down (50%). The problem was NvAGP is set in xorg.conf, but it isn't working at top speed because AGPGART is already loaded by the kernel - see /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README.txt
====================================
With Nvidia's proprietry drivers installed, Linux can use either AGPGART or NvAGP drivers for AGP access. This option is set by "NvAGP" in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
.....
In the author's experience, NvAGP is necessary in order to get the linux kernel's suspend to ram working properly, and is also slightly faster. Users with kernels with built-in AGPGART need to add agp=off to their boot loader in order to use the NvAGP driver. 

ok I need a bit of help here. The engine looks great but I have a problem with the monster animations: they look "off", jerky, slowmo-like. I'd be grate if someone can tell me if there is a command to revert the animations to standard quake. This is killing the game to me. Thanks 

That jerkyness IS original quake.
Fitzquake currently does not support animation interpolation. Most (all?) implementations feature some occasional wobbling.
You might want to try Joequake if you need "smooth" animations. 

 

Preach hacked this into FitzQuake (see that thread for details) 

Can be found at;

http://user.tninet.se/~xir870k/

And has model interpolation.

Remember this is an old game. 

Well, thanks for the info! It has been a long time since I played vanilla quake and I didn't remember the jerkyness. Ijed, thanks for the link but I already know, and abitually use, that engine :) 

Have you seen/heard/thought about Fitz-0.85 ? 

Hey. Just tried to compile the newest release using code::blocks, in Quake/net_sdlnet.c you check if the preprocessor symbol LINUX is defined. That symbol isn't defined anywhere so the check will always be false and the Windows SDL_net path will be included instead. (sorry if you already fixed this)

As usual, the engine is sexy as hell except for the sound thing :p 

Yeah, but as there are plans to merge Fitz and FitzSDL, I won't make many more changes to FitzSDL.

amoe: Okay, do you know which symbal I can use to detect Linux reliably on all distros? It seems to work on Ubuntu. 

SYSNAME := $(shell uname -s)

ifneq (,$(findstring MINGW32,$(SYSNAME)))
HOST_OS = WIN32
TOPDIR := $(shell pwd -W)
else
ifneq (,$(findstring $(SYSNAME),FreeBSD NetBSD OpenBSD))
HOST_OS = UNIX
UNIX = bsd
TOPDIR := $(shell pwd)
else
ifneq (,$(findstring $(SYSNAME),Linux))
HOST_OS = UNIX
UNIX = linux
#UNIX = null
TOPDIR := $(shell pwd)
else
$(error OS type not detected.)
endif
endif
endif


The 'uname -s' is the key here.

I just took that from Tyrquake's Makefile; does it help somehow? If not, I apologize and go back into my corner. 

uname -s returns "Linux" (sic) and I'm on Gentoo. 

I'd have to use a makefile first :-). But thanks anyway, maybe it'll help later.