Re: 3d support for Ati Mobility M1?
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On Saturday 14 Sep 2002 3:02 am, Jeff wrote:
> mliste, 2002-Sep-14 01:34 +0200:
> > 3d games goes really slow on my computer, if they work at all. I have
> > tried to upgrade to freex 4.2.0, without any improvement.
> >
> > Is there anything I can do?
>
> That's as good as it gets. I have that chip on my Dell Latitude CPx,
> with 8MB of video memory. It's not designed for heavy video
> applications like GLTron or most of the flight simulators. It works
> okay on 2d stuff like DOOM Legacy, Quake and Quake II, and of course
> all your production/business applications (OpenOffice, Mozilla,
> etc.). VMware runs with WIN2000 and Visio, but it's pretty slow.
>
> I don't even like running KDE or Gnome on it. I stick with a
> lightweight window manager and it's noticeably faster.
These cards support very little 3d in hardware. You can get bleeding edge
drivers from dri.sourceforge.net and 3d games become playable, but the cards
dont do fog/ab etc and were never designed to run games, just enough to claim
some sort of 3d for marketing purposes.
Tom
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