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Registered: 2008-09-12

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Cedega: no direct rendering support detected

I am using a video card of Nvidia 8800GT, and installed the "nvidia" driver. The "glxinfo" commander showes that the direct rendering is on. But when I run the Cedega Diagnostics, it gave this report:

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Cedega Diagnostics Report
Generated: Thu Jun 11 17:21:33 2009 GMT

Starting test: dependency
dependency: passed
Starting test: soundcard
soundcard: passed
Starting test: copy-protection
copy-protection: passed
Starting test: videocard
videocard: error: no direct rendering support detected
videocard: Direct rendering support is required for 3D graphics.
videocard: error: unsupported videocard vendor: unknown
videocard: Video cards from either NVIDIA or ATI are recommended.  Other video cards may not have enough hardware or driver support to run games under Cedega.
videocard: failed
Diagnostics complete
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Here is my xorg.conf:

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "940NW+"
    ModelName      "Samsung SyncMaster"
    Option         "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 8800 GT"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "0"
    Option         "metamodes" "1440x900_75 +0+0; 800x600 +0+0; 640x480 +0+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Group 0
    Mode 0666
EndSection

Does anyone can help me solve this problem? Thanks!

SpeedVin

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From: Poland

Registered: 2009-04-29

Posts: 955

Re: Cedega: no direct rendering support detected

Try to comment all DRI section

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Registered: 2008-09-12

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Re: Cedega: no direct rendering support detected

Try to comment all DRI section

I have tried this method, but it doesn't work.

SpeedVin

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Registered: 2009-04-29

Posts: 955

Re: Cedega: no direct rendering support detected

Were you trying another drivers mabye nv?

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Re: Cedega: no direct rendering support detected

Were you trying another drivers mabye nv?

You known the open source "nv" driver doesn't provide direct 3D rendering...

Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

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Re: Cedega: no direct rendering support detected

Try using Nouveau then, i think they have super-basic 3D for your card. Just to see if Cedega sees the direct rendering then.

Also, the Diagnostics could just be broken. It should be easy to tell whether 3D is truly enabled.

-- Oh, wait! One other thing. If you're on 64-bit Arch, you need lib32-nvidia-utils to have accelerated 3D in Wine and that which is Wine-based.

xchange

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Registered: 2008-09-12

Posts: 6

Re: Cedega: no direct rendering support detected

Try using Nouveau then, i think they have super-basic 3D for your card. Just to see if Cedega sees the direct rendering then.

Also, the Diagnostics could just be broken. It should be easy to tell whether 3D is truly enabled.

-- Oh, wait! One other thing. If you're on 64-bit Arch, you need lib32-nvidia-utils to have accelerated 3D in Wine and that which is Wine-based.

Thank your very much for these suggestions. I think the Cedega Diagnostics failed to detect the rendering status. I have tried to play "Red Alert 3", the 3D accelerating worked fine (however, sometimes slower than on Windows XP).

Last edited by xchange (2009-06-12 17:59:53)