I can use MS Flight Simulator OK on my windows partition (with a Miscrosoft Sidewinder joy stick), although scenery slow to load.
Can I get T&L setup from somewhere, or I am looking at a new video card? Scott On Thursday 26 September 2002 12:48 pm, Christian Mayer wrote: > Scott Taylor wrote: > > Sorry...here it is: > > > > Box - Athlon AMD 650, RAM 384MB, HDD 30GB > > Video Card - nVidia Riva TnT2 32 MB > > That card has no T&L setup (only GeForce cards do have it). So it's > guaranteed that you'll have "bad" performance. > > > Distro - Linux Red Hat 7.3 > > > > I have never downloaded any video card specific software. I guess I need > > to by the sounds of it. Is this on nVidia's web site? > > No specific software? Hm, I don't know if Red Hat includes the nVidia > drivers (SuSE doesn't, but offers you to download them as there are > copyright problems otherwise). But if you don't have drivers you aren't > even using the 3D acceleration of that card and thus you'll get *very* > bad performance (actually FGFS is virtaully unusable w/o 3D > acceleration) > > > Also I recently upgraded memory to 384MB and using Control Panel I just > > noticed that the graphs are saying that there is 31MB free physical > > memory and 257MB free virtual, is there something wrong here? (this is > > while not running flightgear) > > Linux uses all the RAM that's unused for disk cachnig. But that's > dynamical, so you don't need to worry about that. Most users get > confused by that. > > Have a look at my router: > > cm@p100:~> free > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 37904 35672 2232 0 2144 9224 > -/+ buffers/cache: 24304 13600 > Swap: 130748 19384 111364 > > The correct answer of how much RAM ist left would be "13600" and not, as > most would think, "2232". > > CU, > Christian _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users
