Strange issues with Sauerbraten

[MichelangeloF536]

I've installed Sauerbraten and it starts OK but two strange things happen. One, it starts out over 30 fps and rapidly degrades to between 1 and 6 fps. Two, I can "see through" the walls of whatever map I'm on and see whatever image serves as the background (for example, if I am supposed to see mountains out a window, I can see the mountains through the walls and floor as well). I've looked through the forums but haven't found anything that helps.

It may be that this old computer just can't deal with Sauerbraten, but OpenArena runs fantastic on it. Here are the specs:

Pentium 3 733 MHz, 512MB RAM, graphics card is a Voodoo 5 5500 64MB.

OS is Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy).

glxinfo | grep render gives this output:

direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Voodoo4 20061113 x86/MMX/SSE

glxgears produces about 900 fps.

Is there any hope, or should I just stick with OpenArena?

Thanks!

[RabidWeezle]

Well, on my nvidia 8200M G, i get a good fps in that game, but my card supports newer up to opengl 3.1 :/ Sauerbraten has some advanced effects in it that if you crank down the graphics all the way you might get a decent framerate. If you want to run it as intended I suggest a low end nvidia pcie or high end agp 8x video card to experiance the game with the full result. Once you see the game in it's full beauty, you will see why it requires a somewhat current generation video card though. It has some impressive water/particle/lighting/HDR/etc effects.

OpenArena runs well because well, it came out when the voodoo 3 was awesome, and ran like silk on a 400mhz.

[MichelangeloF536]

Thanks for the advice--I've turned down pretty much every possible setting and got the weird "see-through" thing to go away, but it still won't get a decent frame rate. I'm pretty much resigning myself to playing OpenArena or perhaps some other low-resource FPS game.

I could get a new card, but what's the fun in that? ;)