NVIDIA with games experience....

[Bikehead]

So I tried bzflag and it ran fast and didn't look like an "atari" game.  
I would assume that if it was a problem with the library path the 
problem would manifest itself in bzflag also right?

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Shahms King wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 23:01 +0200, Sander Hoentjen wrote:
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>>ok.. i thought it required 3D acceleration.. I have an nVidia-based
>>graphics card and the game only starts when i use the nvidia driver, not
>>the nv one. I only get 20 fps, but that's a different story :)
>>
>>On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 16:03 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
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>>>On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 09:49:46PM +0200, Sander Hoentjen wrote:
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>>>
>>>>>even with the resolution and display attributes set to the bare 
>>>>>minimum.  I'm going to try another game, but rawhide seems to not have 
>>>>>my two standards anymore:  chromium or tuxracer.
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>bzflag is in rawhide now, it is a game that requires 3D acceleration as
>>>>well. 
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>>>>
>>>bzflag tries to be smart, it should be playable without 3D acceleration on
>>>decent systems. With hardware 3D you'll see textures, lighting etc, in
>>>software it'll look like a bad amiga game.
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>
>I was having a similar problem when using the nvidia-glx RPMS provided
>by rpm.livna.org.  Those RPMS (wisely) install the nvidia libraries
>in /usr/lib/nvidia so they don't conflict with the xorg-x11 ones.  It
>also installs an nvidia-glx.conf in /etc/ld.so.conf.d so the linker will
>use them.  Unfortunately, /etc/profile (at least, I think that's the
>culprit) adds "/usr/X11R6/lib" to LD_LIBRARY_PATH which is consulted
>before /etc/ld.so.cache when linking, meaning the nvidia libraries are
>not used so you get no hardware acceleration.
>
>Fortunately, they also ship with a /etc/profile.d/nvidia.{sh,csh} so you
>can add
>
>export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/nvidia${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+":$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"}
>
>to make sure the nvidia GL libraries are found before the xorg ones.
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