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I'm having a problem playing any sort of games on Linux, especially 3D. Lets take the game Chromium for example. I've tried it on Redhat 9 and Mandrake 9.1 and it runs slow on both of them, really slow. Not only that but I'll wind up having to restart because of it. I'm sure it's not the speed of my hardware, it's not really slow and not the latest extremely fast system. I'm running a 1 gig AMD Athlon w/ 512 L2 cache w/ 128 megs of ram and I run other games on Windows 98 and XP like the latest Half-Life on-line game with no problem and others that take as much if not more processing power and memory. Mandrake is my main OS and it's awesome if it weren't for that problem. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.
It is because you don't have the right video drivers installed for your video card. You have to have video drivers that support GLX. I have an nVidia card, and before I got the correct drivers, I had the same thing. Once you have the correct driver modules installed, you then have to edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config to use the drivers.
Distribution: Mint 17.2 ,OpenSuse, Kali and Pepermint OS 6
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Get the drivers for you video card...then also you might want to run HDPARM, your hard drives might not be running in DMA mode which in turn will slow you system down
Alright, that's more like it. I figured Linux would already have the best nvidia driver on there but I guess not. The new drivers really helped. Thanx guys.
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