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LinuxPower: Configuring your Linux games for nVIDIA’s XFree86 4.0 Drivers

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 9, 2000

“Ah, wonderful. You’ve got XFree86 4.0 and the latest nVIDIA
drivers installed. All the direct rendering goodness that you need
is now present and good-to-go.”

“So what games can work with it?”

As many 3D accelerated games available for Linux are
written for OpenGL, most only require minor configuration changes
to get them working with nVIDIA’s latest Linux drivers.

“Most of the situations presented here are from games previously
configured to run through Glide and Voodoo-specific builds of Mesa.
I’m using a TNT2 card (specifically, a Diamond Viper V770), with
nVIDIA’s 0.93 Linux drivers, in each case.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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