Archive/Glest

Glest Copyright (C) 2001-2005 The Glest Team. All rights reserved. mail: contact@glest.org web: http://www.glest.org/

Development Team

MARTIÑO FIGUEROA. Programmer.
Glest game, engine and tools coder. 
MS in Computer Science by the University of Coruña (Spain).
 
JOSÉ GONZÁLEZ. Sound.
Glest music composer and sound designer. Pianist. 
Currently studies Composition at the Vigo Conservatoire in Spain, in addition to Electroacoustic 
Music at the CCMIX in Paris.

TUCHO FERNÁNDEZ. 2D and 3D Artist.
Design, modeling, texturing, and animation of the 3D models of units, buildings and more.

JOSÉ ZANNI. 2D Artist and Web design.
Design of the logo, buttons, icons and other 2D stuff for the game. Design and implementation of the website.

FéLIX MENéNDEZ. Artist and 3D Animator.
New animations in v2.0.

MARCOS CARUNCHO. 3D Artist.
Creator of the 3D models for buildings in versions prior to 0.7, his work helped in export plugin 
testing among other things.

Video Card Compatibility

This is a 3D card compatibility list for Glest, please tell us what 3D card do you have, the driver and game version, and if you can run the game without problems.

Card: GeForce FX 5700
Game version: 1.2.1
Driver version: 52.16
OS: Windows XP
Status: Ok

Card: GeForce 2 MX
Game version: 1.2.1
Status: 3D textures slow (3D textures can be disabled with the Textures3D=0 option on glest.ini)

Card: ATI Radeon 9600
Game version: 1.2.1
Driver version: Catalyst 4.4
OS: Windows XP
Status: Ok

Card: ATI Radeon 9200
Game version: 1.2.1
Driver version: Catalyst 4.3
OS: Windows 2000
Status: Ok

Card: ATI Radeon 9800 XT
Driver: Catalyst 4.5
OS: WinXP Pro
Status: Ok (very fast)

Card: GeForce 4 MX 440-SE
Driver: 53.03
OS: Windows XP Pro
Status: Status: 3D textures slow

Card: ATI Radeon 9700
Driver: Catalyst 4.5
OS: Windows XP home
Status: Ok

V-Card: GeForce MX 420
Driver: 53.03
OS: Windows XP Pro with Service Pack 2 Build 2138

card: Creative Geforce 2 GTS 32mb
drivers: ForceWare 56.64
os: win98SE
status: 3D textures slow choppines.

Card: GeForce FX 5700
Driver: 56.72
OS: Windows XP
Status: Ok

4 computers:
VideoCard:Radeon9800SE Omega(catalyst mod)4.5 : OK
VideoCard:MobileRadeon9600pro Catalyst 4.6 : OK
VideoCard:GeforceFX5900XT@GeforceFX5900Ultra : OK
VideoCard:Geforce2TI : shadowing a bit slow

Card: GF4 420 go 32MB vram (openGL 1.3.1 support)
Driver: 28.46 (because, the win xp that toshiba installed, will not boot, if i don't use toshiba drivers......) 
OS: Windows XP (toshiba edit Sad )
Status: ERROR(S): OpenGL extension not supported: GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar, required for Glest

pentium 4- 1700
gefoce 2 mx 400
shadows must be off
textures zero/ off
trilinear
slow graphic ! 

Pentium 4 1.05 Ghz
Amd Athlon 2400 mobile 64MB
448MB ram
a bit choppy if left on for a long period of time

AMD Athlon 700mHz
224 MB RAM
Windows 2000
DirectX 9.0c
Driver: 6.14.10.6177 (latest Version directly from NVIDIA)
Card: Elsa Erazor III Pro
(with Riva TNT2/ TNT2 Pro-Chip, 32 MB Memory, AGP 4x)
Resolution: 1024x786
Status:
Shodow: not possible (error)
Filter: works(!) both, but trilinear is extrmely slow (can't play)
3D-Textures: works both
Speed:
I can play the game without shodows, 3d-textures or the tri.-filter, but it is still a bit slow... 

Notebook Acer Aspire 1603LC
OS: Windows XP Pro
GC: Ati Radeon Mobility 9000 (64mb)
Crash
Version: v1.0.0
Time: Thu Sep 16 15:04:29 2004
Description: Access violation (Reading address 0x0)
Address: 0x0

Video adapter: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 200 (64 MB)
3D Accelerator: nVIDIA GeForce2 MX 100/200
Processor: Intel Pentium IV (1.6 GHz)
RAM: 512 MB SDRAM
OS: Windows XP Professional with Service Paack II
DirectX: 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0)
OpenGL Renderer: GeForce2 MX/AGP/SSE2
OpenGL: 1.4.1
ShadowMap Status: Failure
3D Texture Status: Very slow

amd athlon 900mhz
windows xp prof.
geforce fx 5200 driver: 56
Ok

Sapphire RADEON 9000/pro 64mb
WORKS!

ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9000 IGP 128Mo
Driver: Omega 2.5.67
Status: PERFECT

CPU: AMD Sempron 2200+ 1,5GHz
RAM: 2x256 MB DDR-RAM 166MHz
GPU: NVIDIA Geforce 3 ti200
Driver version: 66.93
Direct X version: 9.0c
Sound: Creative SB Live! Value
Driver: 5.12.1.444, Audigy2 Software
OS: MS Windows 2000 SP4
AV: AntiVir
Status: OK

Compac Evo n800v (notebook)
CPU: Intel 2ghz
Video ATI Mobility Radeon 7500
Version 6.14.10.6404 (13/11/2003)
Glest_v1.0.9
1280x1024x32b 75hrz
Filter Bilinear
3dc textures on
Shadows shadowMapLike
ShadowMap Size 256
Shadow Alpha Ma 0.1
Shadow map frame skp 2
Runnng smoothly No problems found

Card: ATI X800Pro
Driver: Catalyst 4.9
OS: Windows XP Pro
CPU: AMD 64 3500+
RAM: 1GB
No problem when I used an older version of Catalyst
and set the "DayTime=10000000".

CPU: P4 HT
OS: Gentoo Linux 2005.0
Video: i915 integrated
Status: playable, maybe a bit slow

RedHat Linux 9 stock Kernel.
Athlon @ 1667Mhz
GeForce4 MX4000 64Mb (8X,AGP,MMX.3Dnow,SSE)
Works fine, with everything turned off, and still looks quite good.

ATI FireGL 8800 128 MB
Using the latest stable Gentoo ATI fglrx driver.
OS: Gentoo Linux 2005.1, Kernel 2.6.11-r4, X.org
System: 1 Gig Mem, AMD 2700+, Nforce2 Chipset
Did a standard emerge/compile and worked perfectly.

Duron 800 MHz, GeForce 2 MX/MX 400 32MB
SuSE Linux 9.2 with 2.6.11.9
official nvidia drivers 71.74 
X.org 6.8.2. 
Glest 1.0.10 installed with loki installer.
I had to turn off shadows etc. in order to play fluently, however it still become slower when there are more than 
two players.

ATI Mobility FireGL T2 embedded in IBM Thinkpad R50p
MDK10.2 stock kernel & xorg
ATI official drivers latest version
Works very well!

Dell i8600c (notebook)
P-M 1.6 GHz
Video ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 Pro
Ubuntu Linux (Hoary)
Xorg 6.8, ATI Drivers 8.8.25
Running perfectly

Athlon 64 3200+
nVidia GF 6600GT 128mb
Driver version: 71.89
512 mb RAM
Running fine.

P4 3Ghz HT, 1GB RAM
ATI X700 Pro (256 MB)
Catalyst drivers 5.6
Windows XP SP 2
Glest version is 1.1.0
The game runs (and scrolls) perfectly fine and smooth in 1280x1024, with all eye candy options turned on.

Glest: 1.1.0
OS: Linux kernel 2.6.12.2
CARD: Geforce FX5200
DRIVER: Nvidia driver 1.0-7174
Status: runs smoothly!
sometimes the display goes blank for a tenth of a second, but returns to normal fine.