Re: [Sheflug] quake2/VMware

[Patrick Beaumont <lizardloop [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My guess is quake2 will become playable once you get the nvidia drivers working as the drivers bundled with Xserver don't particularly make use of the graphics card a lot.
I too have a TNT2 32meg on a PCI slot and with it I can play quake3 to acceptable level.

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 10:42:07 -0000
"Steve Fisher" <steve.fisher [at] fernite.co.uk> wrote:

> I actually got quake2 up and running last night, it was barely playable, the
> colours were green tinged and the window was like an letterbox but vertical
> not horizontal.  I have a creative blaster riva tnt2 m2 with 32mb of memory,
> which is OK, but getting a bit long in the tooth, I tried installing the
> nvidia drivers from the website, but gave up as it was late and I kept
> crashing the X server (I copied the config file before I made changes, so it
> was easy to recover). So..............
> 
> How easy is it to change a video card?
> 
> Any recommendations on a cheap upgrade?
> 
> How can I screen shot the error messages? (X server is not running whilst
> installing drivers so I am a bit lost!) or can I dump to a log file??
> 
> Vmware - I downloaded last night to tinker with it.  MDK9.2 is not supported
> and does not run (It does nearly though).  Does anybody use VMware?  If I
> install another distro into my w2k partition can it see my Mandrake
> partition and access the files.  If it can it would be the ideal solution
> for work, I could have both running.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 
> 
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