Games + pciE

Dev FreeBSD devfreebsd at gmail.com
Fri Aug 19 07:04:57 GMT 2005


On 8/19/05, Eric Murphy <eam404 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hey all! quick question for ya....
> 
> I recently installed Enemy Territory to play a mod called ETF (www.etfgame.com)  I got the game working with no problems by installing a few linux packages..
> 
> linux_base-8-8.0_6  Base set of packages needed in Linux mode (only for i386)
> linux_dri-4.3.0_3   Binary Linux DRI libraries for 3D hardware acceleration of
> linux-XFree86-libs-4.3.99.902_3 XFree86 libraries, Linux binary
> 
> 
> However upon installing the nvidia drivers I have the option of useing the FreeBSD agp driver or the nvidia one.  ive treyd to use both.  The game runs alittle slow and sluggish so i figured it didnt have hardware acceleration.  So i need to enable AGP.  but then it dawned on me..im not running an agp card.. im running PCIe  (PCI Express, Asus Geforce 6600GT)
> 
> So my question is do i need to load some sort of PCIe driver? How can i get the game to run smoothly and not sluggish?
> 
> Any suggestions are welcome!
> 

Hi

May be this would help.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=52388

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thanks
Dev.


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