Optimising Doom for a GFX card

[MarkAshley]

I downloaded DoomAttack and installed it on my A1200, 040/33, Mediator/Voodoo 3000.

I selected a 640x480x8 screenmode on the Voodoo and I have to say I was disappointed with the performance. I used to play Doom on my AteoBus/Pixel64 and seem to remember getting good performance from it. Any yes, I was using the 040 versrsion of the executable.

Is there a setting I have missed, or is there a better version of Doom that will make better use of my GFX card?

Thanks
Mark

[MarkAshley]

I would prefer to see a version which makes better use of P96. Surely this would give better performance?

[MarkAshley]

Fair enough, I don't really understand how these things work  :roll:  I guess it's slow despite the Voodoo because it's relatively processor intensive???

[MarkAshley]

Karlos wrote:
The best bet for a big speedup on your voodoo would be to try to port one of the GLDoom jobbies that have arisen since it went open source.

Yeah, ok I'll get right on it  :-P

Anyone know if a port is in progress?

[MarkAshley]

Karlos wrote:

MarkAshley wrote:

Karlos wrote:
The best bet for a big speedup on your voodoo would be to try to port one of the GLDoom jobbies that have arisen since it went open source.

Yeah, ok I'll get right on it  :-P

Anyone know if a port is in progress?

I don't know of any, but PC developers really pushed the old game with replacement engines like Doomsday. I expect their source is available but it might be a big job for people who aren't heavily into both amiga and win32 coding.

I don't know anything about either  :-(  Best I can do is knock up an UI in Interface Builder and put some AppleScript behind it in XCode  :lol:  (actually this is quite a powerful combination. But it's hardly going to port Doom...)