Googleearth again
Duane Clark
fpga at pacbell.net
Fri Jan 18 00:37:33 UTC 2008
Tim wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 15:04 +0100, Antonio M wrote:
>> In any case it is not true that you need 3D acceleration ...
>
> Hmm, I was fairly sure that it was a requirement. Though it could have
> been one of those "it's going to be awful without it" instructions,
> rather than an absolutely dependency. Quickly looking at the website,
> it does list a card with 3D capability as a requirement, but not
> specifically 3D acceleration. Though some people might say one implies
> the other.
>
> Having looked at some other things that wanted accelerated 3d on a video
> card that didn't have it, I'd be loath to see how Google Earth crawled
> on one.
>
Well, I can tell you from experience, GE works (on F7) without the
nvidia driver but it does indeed crawl very slowly, even on Core2 Q6600
processor ;)
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