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john biles
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Location: Australia
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 Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 1:45 pm Post subject: 3D graphics Card question / Advice needed! |
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Hello Everyone,
My computer is running a Asus P4V533-MX motherboard with a 2.6Ghz Celeron Processor which has a 128KB cache, 512MB's of Ram. The board has a slot for a AGP 4X Graphics Card.
I have found that my computer runs very slowly when trying to play any 3D linux Game. ( Even the default game included on most Distro's where a penguin slides down a hill made of snow, running over Fish.)
I asked a Computer Store if a Graphics card would help and they said it wouldn't due to the Celeron's 128KB cache and the only was to improve the Speed was to update the CPU to a Pentium 4 or above.
The question I am asking is: Will an Graphics card Help or is the computer shop right?
I believe that adding any graphics card to that slot would help.
Thanks for any advice given  |
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john biles
Joined: 25 Aug 2006
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Location: Australia
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Hello Somebody,
As nobody replied I posted the same question on other Linux forums and they replied.
I decided to buy an old 32MB AGP 4X graphics card for $25 and play with that for awhile. I have installed it, plugged in my Monitor and rebooted and it works in Windows XP, but Linux isn't Happy, so some work to do!!
Thanks to the other forums for their advice HA! HA! HA!    |
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roberts
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
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Location: OC CA USA
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DSL-N uses the tiny K-drive Xserver.
For advanced 3D or even accelerated cards you should use the XFree86.unc mydsl extension. This provides the typical X environment to support such devices/speeds. |
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