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The DareDevils FAQ


What's the required hardware and software to run DareDevils ?

A 200Mhz CPU with 32Mb ram and a 4 Mb 3D-accelerated video card can get the game to run at lower details / lower resolution. If you want to use higher detail modes, you'll need something like a 300Mhz CPU with 64Mb ram and a 8Mb 3D-accelerated video card. You'll need a correctly setup OpenGL 1.2 and the SDL library, whatever OS you are using. Read the following questions for that.

What are the supported operating systems ?

At this time, supported OS are Linux, Windows, BeOS and Mac OSX. However, due to the high portability of SDL, we could make it run on more systems.

What's this library "SDL" the game asks for ? Where can I get it ?

SDL is a library designed to make it easy to write games that run on Linux, *BSD, MacOS, Win32 and BeOS without code changes. We use it in our game so if you want to play you'll need it. You can download it here. Note that you need at least version 1.1.4 (versions 1.1.2 and 1.1.3 might work, but that's untested, older versions won't work).

I can't get OpenGL to work on my video card under Linux ! What's the problem ?
or
I get 0.01 fps under Linux ! What's the problem ?

If you don't have OpenGL or have it but it runs in software mode. Follow one of the following links depending on your video card :

  • If you have an NVidia video card install Nvidia's drivers
  • If you have a 3DFX Voodoo 1 or Voodoo 2 video card read this doc
  • If you have a 3DFX Voodoo 3 or Voodoo 4 or Voodoo 5 video card install DRI for XFree 4
  • If you have an ATI Rage video card install Utah GLX
  • If you have an ATI Rage 128 or ATI Radeon or Xpert video card install DRI for XFree 4
  • If you have an Intel i810/i815 video card install DRI for XFree 4
  • If you have a Matrox video card install Utah GLX for XFree 3 or DRI for XFree 4
  • If you have another video card hum... well...

I can't get OpenGL to work on my video card under Windows ! What's the problem ?
or
I get 0.01 fps under Windows ! What's the problem ?

You need a correctly setup OpenGL. Under windows, you should use OpenGL drivers provided by your card manufacturer, or download and install GLSetup which should support almost every video card available.

My OpenGL is correctly setup, but the game is too slow. What can I do ?

There are many ways to speed up this game :

  • try installing new drivers for your video card
  • if you run linux and have an AGP card, install a 2.4 kernel with the agpgart module
  • if you run X11, install XFree 4 with DRI
  • try lowering the details
  • try lowering the resolution (if you're using Unix, here is a list of modelines for low resolution modes on X11)

DareDevils runs, but seems to use a lot of ram !

No, it doesn't. The ram usage reported by top or other system utilities includes AGP memory which ranges from 32 to 256 or more megabytes of ram. But this ram isn't really used - it's just attached to the process (hint : if this is the case for you, XFree should also have a huge size).

I've read the FAQ, but I still have a problem !

In this case it's time to go to the DareDevils Bugs Page.

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