Hi,
I have had the same problem with Tuxracer with my Riva TNT2 M64 card with 32Mb onboard, are there any Linux drivers for this card? I mean 2D displays are no problem at all but when it comes to games that a different story altogether.
Best Regards,
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From: Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 10 Jan 2003 14:39:17 +1100
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] mdk 9 slow on 3d games
> On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 12:13, Aurélio Diniz wrote:
> > I was never a gaming fan but i enjoy a good game from time to time.
> > Believe it or not, i've only recently tested running tuxracer and i couldn't
> > play it!
> > First, the window of the game was not centered to the monitor (not even
> > close!) and the game was terrible slow! I thought that it was only a problem
> > with tuxracer but later i installed cube (following an advice of stephen)
> > and the same thing happen.
> > What can i do? Install a new graphic card driver? (how?)
> >
> > My card is a Guillemot Gamer M64 with 32mb (shouldn't this be enough to run
> > these games)
> >
> > I apreciate any help,
> >
> > Filipe Dinis
> >
> > p.s. - thanks for all the people in the list. I've learned a lot about linux
> > with all of you!
> > p.s.2 - sorry for my bad english
> >
>
> I would venture to say that it's the graphics card, mate. If you went
> with the "default" drivers, which I presume you did, then you're going
> to be suffering. If you can find either a driver that more closely
> matches your graphics card, you'll be able to make more full use of the
> RAM onboard as well as the processing on the graphics card.
>
> Do you happen to know if it's the one that has the NVidia chipset
> onboard? Because if so, then you should be able to use the basic Nvidia
> driver - I wasn't able to locate a Guillemot driver for linux...
>
>
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