Slow Radiant

(ChumChum) #1

My radiant here at work runs extremely slow on all machines but 1. They are suppossed to be clones except I noticed that the good machine has updated video drivers while hte others use the standard XP drivers. I assume this is what causes the lag in radiant. However, I don’t have admin access to install the drivers :confused: Are there any options like cubic clipping to allow me to run a little smoother than my current state?

Or perhaps there is a way to install drivers without admin rights that I am not aware of?

(SCDS_reyalP) #2

Make sure you desktop is in 32 bit mode.
Make sure radiant is not using software rendering (in 1.4, this is usally caused by having a 16 bit desktop). To check if you are using software rendering, look at the GL_RENDERER in the about box. If it says 'Microsoft GDI Generic blah blah blah" then you are using software rendering.

(Softwar) #3

:banana: Hi :banana:

Steal some money and buy yourself a decent PC :smiley:

:banana: And download Gtk Radiant 1.4.0, it works fine on a new system like mine.

:drink: Cheers

(ChumChum) #4

I am in fact using sw rendering but if my drivers are generic m$ then am I just stuck? I looked around but saw no option to change this and any change I make in my video drivers setup gets owned by the admin priviledges, or lack there of.

I was playing around wiht the textures lowering them and al but its still slow. My 2d is also slow, would sw rendering affect this as well? I wouldn’t think so, but I am noobius maximus.

The machines are p4 2.4ghz 512 ram but have radeon 7000 cards.

thanx for the reply reyalp, always there to help you are.

edit: Ok, I get it now. I was thinking when u said radiant was using sw rendering that it was an option within radiant. I just jacked the good machine and verified that it was infact using the correct drivers and not generic sw rendering. Now I just have to get the drivers installed somehow which I am pretty sure is impossible without admin rights :confused: