Re: [K12OSN] frozen-bubble crash

[Gavin Chester <sales ecosolutions com au>]

On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 07:15 -0500, Burke Almquist wrote:
> My first instinct would be that supertux or frozen-bubble are trying  
> to run at a higher color depth or resolution in full screen mode than  
> the card can handle.
> 
> On Jun 7, 2006, at 5:38 AM, Gavin Chester wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 12:12 +0800, Gavin Chester wrote:
> >> My kids love frozen-bubble, and so do I (since I hold the highest  
> >> level
> >> achieved in our house).  It powers along on the server, but when  
> >> run on
> >> a client it will semi-crash and drop from full screen to windowed and
> >> become less responsive.  In the past I had blamed this on my low-spec
> >> server and client hardware, but it still happens with my newer, much
> >> more powerful system.

That's a useful tip, thanks.  How would I go about testing whether the
video RAM is being maxed for any particular client?  It would be a shame
not to be able to run these apps in full screen.

Gavin