Good day everyone. So in one of the GNOME3 discussions you saw that I could just not get GNOME3 running on the factory integrated video 'card'. So I bought a Zotac (NVIDEA based) GEFORCE GT640 which has on-board GPU.
My question is how do I verify that the video card is actually doing the 'hard work' and not the motherboard CPU? And if its not, how do I make it?
When I watch videos my CPU goes very high (90%), and the video surges. By surging I mean this the video plays fast and then slow, fast and then slow. In one video for example it looks like I am walking then running, when I am not.
My kids are starting to enjoy the things I have been able to do using FreeBSD, and I would say even appreciate its flexabiity. So of course they want to play a "tank game". An online version works fine but of course it seems to 'surge' a bit and the CPU is around 90%. Eventually I might to find and install a network based tank game, but that's another day, and another item.
I just want to ensure I maximize the utilization of the resources on this machine, including offloading the video work (I think some of you call that rendering) to the video card.
Where would be a good place for me to start reading? And if it matters, for this particular machine it is currently using the m-HDMI connector, but DVI and VGA should be included in any configuration guides.
Thanks again for your support.
My question is how do I verify that the video card is actually doing the 'hard work' and not the motherboard CPU? And if its not, how do I make it?
When I watch videos my CPU goes very high (90%), and the video surges. By surging I mean this the video plays fast and then slow, fast and then slow. In one video for example it looks like I am walking then running, when I am not.
My kids are starting to enjoy the things I have been able to do using FreeBSD, and I would say even appreciate its flexabiity. So of course they want to play a "tank game". An online version works fine but of course it seems to 'surge' a bit and the CPU is around 90%. Eventually I might to find and install a network based tank game, but that's another day, and another item.
I just want to ensure I maximize the utilization of the resources on this machine, including offloading the video work (I think some of you call that rendering) to the video card.
Where would be a good place for me to start reading? And if it matters, for this particular machine it is currently using the m-HDMI connector, but DVI and VGA should be included in any configuration guides.
Thanks again for your support.