Re: Playing DOOM/NEODOOM

[Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost>]

I upgraded NetBSD-HEAD -- I think nouveau  got upgraded also.
The slowdown went away. I am gonna hunt for more .wad files.

ALSO, the problem I had with the text "blacking out" at boot
is now tolerable -- I can read the login messages.

On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 9:05 AM David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 26 Jan 2022 at 14:43, Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > I found a came called NEODOOM that works with doomlegacy.
> > After a certain amount of time it likes to slow to a crawl, and
> > I need to stop to let things catch up. If I make the window smaller
> > (640 x 480) it still does the same thing. NEODOOM alss has a lot
> > of Hi Def weapons and explosions, etc. How do I know if the problem
> > is the graphocs card, nouveau, or the game?
> >
> > Has anyone else played NEODOOM?
>
> Random thoughts - could try running it in different ways to see what
> triggers the slowdown:
> - with the software legacy renderer vs the opengl one
> - with/without sound disabled (if possible)
> - with a standard doom wad vs neodoom
> - with a VESA Xorg config vs nouveau (will be slow anyway, and may be
> hard to tell if it gets slower)
>
> David