Games : 'FlightGear' hangs ! :o(

[Francis X. Maier]

Vince,

I use an old iMac G3/350 for my Linux box, with a built-in ATI Rage 128
card.  I can't launch Flightgear without it stalling either, and I think
it's a function purely of my very limited video RAM.  

If you like simple flight sims, you might try gl-117.  Less graphically
pleasing, but not too bad, and it has low memory requirements.

Fran


On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 07:06 +0100, Trouilliez Vincent wrote:
> > Maybe I could try another program that uses 3D, just to see if it
> > works at all. I heard that 'Tux racer' uses 3D hardware rendering,
> > so I will download that see what happens.
> 
> Just tried Tux Racer then. Well, I think that 3D must be enabled as I
> get decent graphics and it's very smooth/fluid, but after 30 seconds
> playing, it hung the machine just like Flightgear did, and I had to
> restart it (it was really completely frozen, completely crashed).
> 
> On the thread you pointed me to, they say talk about problems with
> color depth, something like it is set by default to 24, but this
> causes memory problems, and that it should be set to 16 bit. Maybe
> this memory problem crashed 'X', hence the whole system. Will try and
> do what they suggest then, tweak X's conf file to switch to 16 bits
> depth, see what happens.
> 
> Vince