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Topic: Why do games run so slow?, 3d game not working for me.

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xmikeox

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Posted: Aug. 13 2006,21:49

back when I had winxp on this computer I was able to run quake3, wolfenstein and all tha great stuff but now even that "cube" game in the repository is slowed down to a crawl. what i was wondering is how can I get my computer to get more speed while running games like that, would it be best to run dsl in ram for extra speed? or what?

Del

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Posted: Aug. 13 2006,22:07

Ya, running toram mode will increase speed a bit. Also remember that DSL uses a really tiny X server that doesn't do 3D accelerated graphics. You could try installing the full XFree from mydsl and see if that helps.

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mikshaw

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Posted: Aug. 13 2006,22:30

You will probably also get a significant boost by installing a better driver for your specific video card, if it supports hardware acceleration. Nvidia, for example, has a proprietary driver which works very well for their cards, but the "nv" driver that is available in most distros does not enable hardware acceleration due to the manufacturer being a dick about not releasing its hardware secrets.

I have a geforce card, and most 3D games play terribly if i use a generic or nv driver.

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