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Windows Classic Style 8 13.11%
Windows XP Style (Blue) 21 34.43%
Windows XP Style (other colour) 15 24.59%
Windows Media Centre Style 3 4.92%
Other 11 18.03%
Non-Windows OS 3 4.92%
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Old 11-15-2006, 04:38 PM   #41 (permalink)
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yea lol, yea my buddy who runs linux had to switch to nvidia because of that.
Yuep, ATI is digging their own grave by not making decent drivers for linux.
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Old 11-15-2006, 05:39 PM   #42 (permalink)
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I currently have WoW working on Ubuntu and Kubuntu, but IDK about COD2.



I am not understanding what you are saying, sorry. If you want those special effects, you have to have XGL and beryl, nvidia or ATI.
Not true

You don't need XGL if you have an Nvidia card and using the latest Nvidia drivers (1.0-9629).

To use Beryl, you need to have GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap support. The new Nvidia drivers have this so XGL is no longer needed.
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Old 11-15-2006, 09:41 PM   #43 (permalink)
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Old 11-15-2006, 09:51 PM   #44 (permalink)
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Not true

You don't need XGL if you have an Nvidia card and using the latest Nvidia drivers (1.0-9629).

To use Beryl, you need to have GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap support. The new Nvidia drivers have this so XGL is no longer needed.
O, I thought you meant that you don't need beryl to have the effects.
Im not sure if that is entirely true though because my friend had to use XGL with his nvidia card. Have you personaly tested it?
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Old 11-15-2006, 09:55 PM   #45 (permalink)
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Doesn't WindowBlinds slow your computer down, taking up RAM and such forth? I got the trial version and it wouldn't apply any of the skins for me...
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Doesn't WindowBlinds slow your computer down, taking up RAM and such forth? I got the trial version and it wouldn't apply any of the skins for me...
Ya it does use up a bit if RAM, but if you have over 1GB or so you're fine.
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O, I thought you meant that you don't need beryl to have the effects.
Im not sure if that is entirely true though because my friend had to use XGL with his nvidia card. Have you personaly tested it?
Yes, I'm running it daily without XGL installed.

Your friend is probably using the old 8xxx drivers which do not support GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap

Edit: According to todays beryl blog they have now added "Support for non-texture_from_pixmap rendering. This means beryl now works on the NVIDIA 8776 drivers."

I believe the latest version incorporating the above comes out tomorrow.

You probably already read the blog but here you go anyway: http://blog.beryl-project.org/
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Don't you find the standard blue XP theme looks all, balooney!?
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