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Rage 128 video card/drivers in sauerbraten

Asked by paintball_9029

Im using a rage 128 pro 4x (yes i know that is obsolete and Im trying to replace it) and I noticed that under Ubuntu it is only running as a 1x agp and is severely limiting my frame rate under sauerbraten. is there a setting or updated driver that would allow it to run at full speed?

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paintball_9029 (paintball-9029) said : 		#1

by the way im running Fiesty

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Best Gord Allott (gordallott) said : 		#2

if you open the file /etc/xorg.conf as root (ie by typing gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf) and find the part that looks like (although driver "r128" may be replaced with "ati")

       Section "Device"
         Identifier "devname"
         Driver "r128"
         ...
       EndSection

you can now add the option to increase the agp speed by adding the line: (where X is a number)

so for example in your case it should look remotely like

       Section "Device"
         Identifier "devname"
         Driver "r128"
         Option "AGPMode" "4"
         ...
       EndSection

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paintball_9029 (paintball-9029) said : 		#3

i dont have time to go check that right now but i will definitely try it when i get the chance. ill tell you if it solved the problem some time tomorrow proably

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paintball_9029 (paintball-9029) said : 		#4

it definitely worked, the opengl screensavers run smoothly now and everything seems to react better, it didnt do a whole lot for my sauerbraten frame rate but i doubt theres anything else i can do to fix that other than getting another video card. thanks for your help

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paintball_9029 (paintball-9029) said : 		#5

Thanks Gord Allott, that solved my question.