“Tux Racer is a lovely game, it provides nice detailed
graphics, sounds and music. There are several different tracks to
challenge. There are still some flaws, for example right now there
is neither a multiplayer option nor can you compete with computer
opponents. But these issues can be found in the list of future
improvements, so let’s hope they will be implemented soon. Same is
with the possibility to change settings from within the game via
menus.”
“There is another “problem”: performance. On my box which is an
AMD K6-3 with 450 MHz, a TNT2 M64 card, XFree 4.0.1 and Nvidia’s GL
drivers, version 0.95, I achive framrates between 8-14 frames per
second (with default settings in the config file), depending on the
window size/screen resolution. By changing graphics settings I
could slightly improve the framerate but didn’t experience a real
breakthru.”
“However, the game is more than just playable, though the
background might not move smoothly when turning, the race itself
isn’t really affected by the low framerate! (He, maybe the
framecounter is broken, I mean 8 fp/s is really low but even then
the game is playable…) All in all this game is worth the effort
to be downloaded, compiled and installed.”