So no newer games for me then...?

[Joey French]

Man, I never realized how crap my video card is. I built a brand new box 6 months ago, and the only thing I carried over from my old one was the cheap video card. I am trying to run some newer games in emulator (mupen64) and having difficulties. So, I though i would try glxgears, here's what I got.

702 frames in 5.9 seconds = 119.230 FPS
700 frames in 5.7 seconds = 121.856 FPS
700 frames in 6.0 seconds = 115.771 FPS
695 frames in 5.9 seconds = 117.073 FPS
700 frames in 5.7 seconds = 121.856 FPS
700 frames in 5.9 seconds = 117.801 FPS

The card is an S3 Virge DX, which breezy had no problem with in the install, which was half the reason I used it. I haven't used many emulators since my windows days, a few years ago, and now that I am getting back into it, I guess I will have to buy a new video card? Is there any way that this card will make do for a month or so?

[fct]

If you are gonna use emulators like mame or zsnes you won't need a graphics card with 3d acceleration. CPU power will be enough (I've been using a 700MHz Athlon CPU with no 3d acceleration for it).

[Joey French]

Yeah, nes and snes emulators run without prob... (Except for sounding crappy on a 24 bit sound card). Anything on mupen64 is slow as molasses or stopped! Kinda sucks cuz, the box besides the video card is top notch!

[patrick295767]

Yeah, nes and snes emulators run without prob... (Except for sounding crappy on a 24 bit sound card). Anything on mupen64 is slow as molasses or stopped! Kinda sucks cuz, the box besides the video card is top notch!

Salut !

I have a laggy Mupen64 for the game for instance Mario.
How did you install the mupen64 ? Did you install sothg in particularly to avoid laggy sound and play ?

Greetings

Patrick

[RAOF]

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The card is an S3 Virge DX, which breezy had no problem with in the install, which was half the reason I used it
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Man, that old card!

A friend had one of those in his compuer. In 1999. And it was crap then :D

Don't expect anything 3d to work with it. But 2d emulators should work just fine - just make sure they're not using OpenGL, 'cause many of them have an option to use GL to scale the video.

[Tichondrius]

That card is probably bottlenecking your system pretty badly, so you are wasting a lot of its potential just because you didn't want to spend an extra $50 for a modern entry level video card like 6200. If you want to spend more, the best value below $200 is 6800GS - it can all modern games (e.g. quake 4 on linux) very fast. Other good choices for around $100 are 6600GT and X800GTO, but I would stick with Nvidia cause their driver support for linux is much better than ATI.

[mushr00m]

I just purchased a 6600GT board with my prosperity bonus($400.00cdn) just for being a citizen of Alberta, Canada. I haven't had a crack at some newer PC games yet but general operation and mucking about has really improved... compared to the buggy geforce4ti I was using before.

It was a good "value" buy at $139.95. I'm going to be investing in a second Myth type media server soon... maybe I'll be able to justify a better card then.