INTRODUCTION THE PROGRAMS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Start-Up/Hardware Your Files

START-UP/HARDWARE

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3D-Graphics

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Why is Celestia/Tux Racer so slow?

Programs such as Celestia and Tux Racer depend on software support for the 3D-capacity of your graphics card. We have two questions:

  1. Does your graphics card have 3D-capacity?
  2. Does your graphics card have software support for this 3D-capacity?

The answer to the first question is presumably yes if you bought your graphics card after 1999.

The answer to the second question is more complicated. Some graphics cards work out-of-the-box with Linux, while others require software support from the manufacturer to achieve their full functionality. Among the latter are usually the latest cards made by ATI and NVidia.

If you have an NVidia card, and you discover that Tux Racer goes very slowly, you should install drivers from Nvidia:


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