Re: any NWN users here? mouse lag problem

[Matthew Mueller <donut at dakotacom dot net>]

On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 04:26:57AM +0100, Malte Cornils wrote:
> Am Freitag, 4. März 2005 04:39 schrieb Malte Cornils:
> > > LD_PRELOAD should do it.  I happen to have an existing library that
> > > could be trivially modified for testing this.  Grab libglfps v0.1 from
> > > http://www.dakotacom.net/~donut/programs/libglfps_s.html and edit
> > > src/glfps.c, insert the glFinish() before the call to
> > > real_glXSwapBuffers and you should be good to go.  (You could comment
> > > out the update_fps call if you want, although leaving it in would be an
> > > easy way to verify that the library is actually being used.)
> >
> > Way cool - it works. Great!
>
> BTW, I tested with a different app (TacOps for Linux) and the libglfps trick 
> does not work. This seems to be a generic issue with LD_PRELOAD for that 
> game, since the frame counter does not display at all. Also, a rage3d user 
> reported that she/he was not able to force quake3 to use glfps either.
>
> -Malte

I think it's because quake3 isn't linked to libGL, instead it loads it
dynamically at runtime.  Probably TacOps does too.

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Matthew Mueller
donut at dakotacom dot net