I'm trying to use an older desktop system I have with a Intel Core 2 Duo CPU
& Nvidia GT 8400GS to escape Intel's management engine - I hope. I'm yet to
confirm this cpu model doesn't have it, but still better than my previous, an
i7. I'm trying to play some old ioquake3 derived games (the most awesome of
which is https://www.unvanquished.net/) but I'm getting really terrible
framerates.
Searching around I found this post from 2012 which has similarly bad results
for the 8400:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nouveau_christmas_2012&num=1
. So I'm wondering if this is all I can expect? I'd like to get a solid 60FPS
on some of these games. The 8400 is the only GPU available on the
ThinkPenguin website and they recommend games like Doom 3 which I don't think
would run for crap for me. The only difference is my 8400 only has 512MB VRAM
while the model offered on ThinkPenguin has 1GB. That might make a big
difference, I don't know. Maybe I have not got nouveau set up correctly? But
I thought it should just work on kernel ~3.13 which I think Trisquel 7.0 uses
by default?
The other thing is, according to this page
https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix/ , the 8400 still requires
externally loaded firmware for hardware decoding, isn't this usually a
problem for FSF "endorsement"?
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