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armourer
07-14-2004, 01:30 PM
I have recently installed Cedega and Point2Play, and have installed several games, Battlefield 1942 and Jedi Academy.
I am running Mandrake 10.
I have 2 video "cards," my Nvidia GeForce FX 5600 Ultra and a motherboard integrated SvProSavage8.
While running Battlefield, I am getting poor video playback in the intro, almost identical to my old ProSavage chip. After checking my options under configure, Cedega had detected my video card had 32 mb of ram. My AGP card , Nvidia GeForce FX 5600 Ultra , has 128 mb, while my old chip has 32 mb.
Could it be that Cedega is using my old video chip?
In Harddrake, my video card is listed as

Vendor: ‎NVidia

Bus: ‎PCI

Bus identification: ‎10de:311

Location on the bus: ‎1:0:0

Description: ‎GeForce FX 5600

Module: ‎Card:NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic)

Media class: ‎DISPLAY_VGA

This should mean Linux is using my new agp card, right?
I have raised the mb in the Cedega configure to 128, but no preformance boost, which leads me to believe it may be using my old chip.
Anyone know if this is possible or how to test this?
Thank you,
Evan

KingNothing13
07-14-2004, 04:16 PM
I only have one vid. card in my box, a GeForve 4, with 128MB on it, and cedega showed the video RAM as 32.

I think it is a default setting.

Having said that, I have run 2 games, flawlessly through it, Star Wars Galaxies and Babylon 5: I've Found Her.

Not sure what the problem would be for you, but it more than likely, is not it.

KN

Daedrus
07-14-2004, 04:24 PM
I would recommend running the System tests for 3D Hardware Accelleration in Point2Play and see what it says for the rendering speeds. It might give you a little more of an idea where the problem is.