Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 13:48:02 -0500 From: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> To: hymette@wanadoo.fr, FreeBSD Multimedia Mailing list <freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org> Subject: OpenGL Acceleration Message-ID: <3DD3EFE2.3D36D32@mitre.org> References: <200211141827.gAEIRRQG026591@spider.deepcore.dk> <3DD3EF6F.6050609@wanadoo.fr>
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hymette@wanadoo.fr wrote: > > hi, > > when I try to play with games like xracer or luxracer the screen is > refreshing very very slowly so the game is impossible. What problem > could it be ? > > My video card is a Matrox Millenium 2. The problem is that you are using software rendering for your game, and those games were written to use the 3D hardware acceleration found in most modern video cards. You will probably have to upgrade your video card if you want to play tuxracer or pretty much any modern 3D game. FreeBSD supports 3D acceleration on Matrox Gxx cards (Like the G200, G400, G450, and G550), on ATI cards (http://gatos.sourceforge.net/ati.2.php), and very recently on NVidia based cards like the Geforce series. The G200 drivers are very mature and stable (just define WITH_MATROX_GXX_DRIVER=yes when you build the XFree port). The downside is that Matrox cards have less 3D acceleration than other modern cards (and they tend to be rather expensive on Ebay compared to ATI or Nvidia cards for some reason). Even the lowest end card here (the G200) is plenty fast to play Tuxracer though, but you won't be able to play Unreal Tournament 2k3 without a better (more expensive) card. The ATI drivers are supposedly pretty good, but I've never tried them. The ATI Radeon 9700 is currently the fastest video card available on the market. The NVidia drivers are beta and sometimes require a bit of hacking to get working, but they should improve over time. The Geforce 4 TI 4600 is the second fastest card on the market (with performance only slightly below the Radeon 9700). With the ATI and Nvidia, you can also buy cheaper (slower) versions of the cards (like the Geforce 4 MX series) to save money. Hope this helps. -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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