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Yeah, I saw some more of the "Interaction Table" sizing code but it's spread out into several files and looks dynamic so there's no magic bullet to force a new overflow limit. Somewhere in the algorithm there must be a way to keep that table bigger though...

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Hahaa, the image loading is exactly as I thought it'd be... oh god. Shouldn't be a problem to add 3Dc/ATI2/DXN support, and with the DTXn patent being either invalid(Apple vs HTC fallout, tho untested) or gpl-friendly (HTC is part of that linux patent friendly group iirc) it may even work well enough outside of windows in the near future (outside of horrible binary blobs) :V

 

And strangely enough a friend who wants to help with TDM performance and such decided to set up a dev environment a few hours before release, so he should come in a bit more handy now... or at least he'll have fun profiling useless crap (I know you'll read this - get busy).

 

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Someone needs to build an executable ASAP so we can see if the performance went up or down :D

 

I think someone just compiled it... unless I'm misunderstanding this reply:

 

http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2539812&cid=38144420

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Hahaa, the image loading is exactly as I thought it'd be... oh god. Shouldn't be a problem to add 3Dc/ATI2/DXN support, and with the DTXn patent being either invalid(Apple vs HTC fallout, tho untested) or gpl-friendly (HTC is part of that linux patent friendly group iirc) it may even work well enough outside of windows in the near future (outside of horrible binary blobs) :V

 

First time accepted submitter boley1 writes "According to Cnet — S3 Graphics's case collapsed in their ITC suit, with the ITC ruling that Apple does not infringe on any of S3's patents. A big blow to HTC according to the report." So much for HTC buying a warchest; according to the ruling it looks like AMD/ATI actually owned the patents in question.

AMD asserted that. It wasn't decided.

 

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Hmmm...

# CPU type
cpu = commands.getoutput('uname -m')
exp = re.compile('.*i?86.*')
if exp.match(cpu):
cpu = 'x86'
else:
cpu = commands.getoutput('uname -p')
if ( cpu == 'powerpc' ):
 cpu = 'ppc'
else:
 cpu = 'cpu'
g_os = 'Linux'
# end system detection ---------------------------

... x86, ppc and generic cpu... thinking of the possibility of x86_64 and multi-core processor support as well. Then could AI be handled by a separate core, and physics by yet another?

And should linux compilation be done by scons, or should that be replaced by cmake maybe?

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System: Mageia Linux Cauldron, aka Mageia 8

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I compiled it on Debian. Doom 3 works great, but TDM not so much. TDM loads up (St. Alban's Cathedral). I was able to walk around and stuff. I didn't find any guards. The game hard locked though when I pressed exc to bring up the menu.

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Mmmm: http://www.tomshardw...ml#xtor=RSS-181

 

 

During DOOM 3's development, Carmack independently discovered and publicized a shading process later dubbed as "Carmack's Reverse," but Creative Labs had already filed for a patent on the technique back in 1999. Carmack said he created a separate shading method that got around the patent issues, but that meant a significant "speed hit" in DOOM 3's performance. Thus, the studio had no choice but to license the "depth fail" patent from Creative and move on.

"The Doom 3 GPL source code release does not include functionality enabling rendering of stencil shadows via the 'depth fail' method, a functionality commonly known as 'Carmack's Reverse,'" states the source code notes.

 

So there's the old performance issue Carmack talked about?

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