Slow framerates and weird shaders in game

Inside the game "Sauerbraten" which is a 3D shooter, I get very low framerates and some surfaces with shaders have strange glitches on them.
I have Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.2, and I have the game and OS up to date.
To make sure this wasn't just with the game, I booted into Windows and started the game up, and I am getting great framerates, around 150-200FPS, running 1440x900, while on Mac OS X, I get around 8-40.
To explain the shader thing:
http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/8897/screenieqa3.jpg
Thanks,
Tundra-Conor.

I just looked up the details of 'Sauerbraten' and it appears to be a PowerPC game.
You're presumably running an Intel-based MacBook Pro (as you can boot into Windows) so the game will be running under PowerPC emulation. That's probably where the problem lies - it's not emulating very well(!)
Edit: Actually there does seem to be a Universal Binary/Intel version. Make sure you've got that version not the PPC version.
Message was edited by: Jim Pomme

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