Re: Tux Racer 0.10 Released

[Jasmin Patry <jfpatry@home.com>]

On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Steve Baker wrote:

> It runs fine so long as I don't try to steer Tux - but if I hit J or L
> a few times, the frame rate drops to about one frame every 10 seconds,
> sometimes I can hit Q and get out of the game - other times the mouse
> cursor stops moving so I can't kill the game.  One time, X-windows
> crashed out.

Somebody also reported this to tuxracer-devel.  I can't repeat this bug
(I've only had it happen to me once in many hours of play), so I'd
appreciate help in tracking it down.  I posted a patch to tuxracer-devel
that should help in tracking it down; please check the archives.

> This happens both on my SuSE 6.2 AMD K6 400MHz/Voodoo-1 and on my
> SuSE 6.3 AMD K6 266MHz/Voodoo-3.  I'm running fvwm2 window manager.
> 
> It doesn't seem to matter whether I run windowed or fullscreen.
> 
> But if I don't hit any keys at all, it always runs perfectly.

:-)

Thanks,
Jasmin