Google Earth

[James Knott]

Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 07:13:05PM +0300, Peter wrote
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I just got Google Earth for Linux and it works fine with the exception 
>> of some small quirks in the left sidebar menu flow. However it is slow 
>> (as they said). What would be a good set of tips on how to set up the 
>> software so it is usable on slow machines. I tried to make all the 'fly' 
>> options fast and all the other options slow. This should give 
>> 'step'-like movements and somewhat higher speed. Any more ideas ?
> 
>   Google Earth needs a video driver that supports hardware video
> acceleration.  Doesn't matter if it's Windows, Mac, or Linux.
> Unfortunately, there aren't that many video cards that have drivers with
> hardware acceleration support.
> 

I have an NVidia based ASUS AMD64 mom board that runs Google Earth.
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