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Hi and welcome to this topic, I got a brand new issue and this is the story:

I brought alive this computer with the first antiX 17 version, all good. Then I saw this last stable version 17.4.1 that I had to try then I just wipe all the drive and made a brand new installation. Fine.

I got noticed, that it hasn’t the adoble flash plugin then I tried several ways to install it till I update resources and the whole system and manage to do it manually and automatic (I can’t type there letters like á é í ó and ú dunno y; cuz I can do it in anything else, even firefox search box). The games runs very slow, very, I manage to reconfigure firefox and these web-searched stuff to make it faster and now it runs faster but graphics still goes like dying, rly slow.

Then I forgot gaming on flash player (I’m struggling with this two days ago already), so I did download pcsxr and brough my backed up save files, they worked just as expected BUT, when I did just run the cd as I used to do, I looked at the screen and noticed the graphics looked amazing, then I just addressed the main issue about all of this. It suppose to make the game run faster and if I want to run it smoothly, I should spend time configuring it till I achieve such thing. All the configuration is on default, the drivers are preconfigured to run like that, so there’s nothing that I could do than watching all in slow motion.

So here is the real deal; I believe that OpenGL is running in this computer using all its GPU power (w/e it means) to make things here to look smoothly, and it is. The thing is that I don’t have graphic cards, I’m using an internal chipset (G31) that as much should manage ~250MB of video memory (Idk). Since I’m not such advanced user in this matter, I’m minding on downgrading cuz to me is the fastest and easy way according to my few knowledge. I read any suggestion, ideas, presumptions, etc.

Thanks for reading, and make ur opinion like if we’re in sharktank tv show plz.

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Bac when I had time to game. I used dosbox and stored some games in a folder on my low spec boxes.

https://www.dosgames.com/

dosbox is included in AntiX full. inxi is also included in AntiX and a readout should have been included in your 1st post in this thread so members could see what you are running. like a

inxi -v8-z

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In pcsxr, I found that the default graphics driver is opengl — that’s probably why it “looks beautiful.” On my 32-bit systems, I have to switch it to xvideo driver to get a good frame-rate to play.

Run pcsxr. Go to the “configuration” menu, and select “bios & plugins.” Next click “graphics” — here there are only 2 options in the graphics configuration drop-down choices — opengl & Xvideo. Switch to Xvideo driver. For me, it runs LOTS faster, and nearly all of my favorite games now run at/about 100% full speed.

Only that one adjustment, and no searching for new plugins are needed (in my experience).

Try that and see if it works on your system. 🙂

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Thanks by answering, but I returned to 17.1 from 17.4.1 antiX; and the issue seems to be this:

Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_va_gl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

When I do install it, it starts to freeze and even make the flash player stuttering; well I noticed somehow libflashplayer.so and libpepflashplayer.so or something like that work together (cuz I rly was struggling to make it work on the new firefox with no luck last time), I am just doing now comparison before reinstalling 17.4.1 or even up (cuz I saw a 19 version in the forum but didn’t saw it on torrents download).

About the pcsxr, I though this computer was unable to run OpenGL 2.1 and it did (very, very slow and the game didn’t look like as psx old style, though it was a remake). Sadly I don’t have a graphic card and I’ve to use X drivers, but still selecting the X drivers plugins in the emulator, it still run slow like ignoring the choice and go straight with default drivers settings (again OpenGL).

$ inxi -v8-z
Error 4: unsupported verbosity level: 8-z

Now Idk if downgrading to OpenGL 1.3, uninstall it or just reinstall Xorg till it get as default, once I hit there, I might focus on the flash player sttutering in firefox, some ppl say its due browser.cache.memory few buffer capacity, other unchecking hardware acceleration (first thing I did) did the touch.

Graphics: Card: Intel 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller
bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:29c2
Display Ser

ver: X.Org 1.19.2 drivers: intel (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 1440×900
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel G33 x86/MMX/SSE2 version: 2.1 Mesa 13.0.6 Direct Render: Yes

OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) G33 x86/MMX/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 13.0.6
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
OpenGL extensions:
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 2.0 Mesa 13.0.6
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 1.0.16
OpenGL ES profile extensions:

Plot twist, it says in the info the OS is 32 bits while the processor 64 bits, Idk if it could explain the failure of that plugin. I guess, I’ll get entertainning while I mess around meanwhile

Again, I read suggestions and all the help I can get.

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$ inxi -v8-z
Error 4: unsupported verbosity level: 8-z

harry@biker:~
$ inxi -v8-z
System:    Host: biker Kernel: 4.20.12-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 6.3.0 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.20.12-antix.1-amd64-smp root=UUID=ea719934-26e3-4f25-af62-4f54438f456d ro 
           vga=791 quiet 
           Desktop: IceWM 1.4.2 info: icewmtray dm: SLiM 1.3.4 Distro: antiX-17_x64-full Heather Heyer 24 October 2017 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 
Machine:   Type: Desktop System: Google product: Parrot v: 1.0 serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 3 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: Google model: Parrot v: 1.0 serial: <filter> BIOS: coreboot v: 4.0-6588-g4acd8ea-dirty date: 09/04/2014 
Battery:   ID-1: BATX charge: 30.2 Wh condition: 30.2/37.0 Wh (82%) volts: 17.2/14.8 model: SANYO AL12B32 type: Li-ion 
           serial: <filter> status: Full 
Memory:    RAM: total: 3.79 GiB used: 595.6 MiB (15.3%) 
           RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
PCI Slots: Permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Celeron 1007U bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Ivy Bridge family: 6 model-id: 3A (58) 
           stepping: 9 microcode: 17 L2 cache: 2048 KiB bogomips: 5986 
           Speed: 872 MHz min/max: 800/1500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 798 2: 798 
           Flags: acpi aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon bts clflush cmov constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl 
           dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept erms est flexpriority fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht lahf_lm lm mca mce mmx monitor msr mtrr 
           nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts rdtscp rep_good sep 
           smep ss sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic 
           xsave xsaveopt xtopology xtpr 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT disabled 
           Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
           Type: spec_store_bypass status: Vulnerable 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:0156 
           Display: server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Mobile v: 3.3 Mesa 13.0.6 compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 
           chip ID: 8086:1e20 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.20.12-antix.1-amd64-smp 
Network:   Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR9462 Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Foxconn driver: ath9k v: kernel port: 0400 
           bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 168c:0034 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
           IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter> 
           IP v6: <filter> scope: link 
           Device-2: Broadcom and subsidiaries NetLink BCM57785 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI 
           driver: tg3 v: 3.137 port: 0400 bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 14e4:16b5 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           WAN IP: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 14.91 GiB used: 6.57 GiB (44.0%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: SanDisk model: SSD U100 16GB size: 14.91 GiB block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B 
           speed: 3.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 6.14 scheme: MBR 
           Message: No Optical or Floppy data was found. 
RAID:      Message: No RAID data was found. 
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 14.91 GiB size: 14.62 GiB (98.01%) used: 6.57 GiB (44.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
           label: rootantiX uuid: ea719934-26e3-4f25-af62-4f54438f456d 
Unmounted: Message: No unmounted partitions found. 
USB:       Hub: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002 
           Hub: 1-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 8087:0024 
           Device-1: 1-1.1:5 info: Foxconn / Hon Hai type: Bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s 
           chip ID: 0489:e04e 
           Device-2: 1-1.3:4 info: Chicony type: Video driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
           chip ID: 04f2:b336 
           Hub: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002 
           Hub: 2-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 8087:0024 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 53.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/MX.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
           1: deb http://mxlinux.unc.edu.ar/mxlinux/antix/stretch stretch main nosystemd nonfree
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/onion.list 
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Processes: CPU top: 5 
           1: cpu: 34.4% command: chrome pid: 6083 mem: 162.1 MiB (4.1%) 
           2: cpu: 5.4% command: xorg pid: 24334 mem: 53.0 MiB (1.3%) 
           3: cpu: 5.0% command: chrome pid: 27357 mem: 115.9 MiB (2.9%) 
           4: cpu: 4.8% command: [kworker/0:2-eve] pid: 20574 mem: 0.00 MiB (0.0%) 
           5: cpu: 3.5% command: google-chrome-stable pid: 27317 mem: 220.0 MiB (5.6%) 
           Memory top: 5 
           1: mem: 220.0 MiB (5.6%) command: google-chrome-stable pid: 27317 cpu: 3.5% 
           2: mem: 162.1 MiB (4.1%) command: chrome pid: 6083 cpu: 34.4% 
           3: mem: 115.9 MiB (2.9%) command: chrome pid: 27357 cpu: 5.0% 
           4: mem: 110.9 MiB (2.8%) command: chrome pid: 27509 cpu: 0.2% 
           5: mem: 99.9 MiB (2.5%) command: chrome pid: 27360 cpu: 0.8% 
Info:      Processes: 142 Uptime: 3h 12m Init: SysVinit v: 2.88 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 6.3.0 alt: 6 
           Shell: bash v: 4.4.12 running in: lxterminal inxi: 3.0.34 
harry@biker:~
$ 

Edit> I might be running a newer version of inxi than you. so try
inxi -Fxz -r

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$ inxi -Fxz -r
System: Host: recycle Kernel: 4.9.87-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 gcc: 6.3.0
Desktop: IceWM 1.4.2
Distro: antiX-17.1_386-full Heather Heyer 17 March 2018
Machine: Device: desktop Mobo: ASRock model: G31M-S. serial: N/A
BIOS: American Megatrends v: P1.80 date: 07/08/2009
CPU: Single core Intel Pentium 4 (-MT-)
arch: Netburst Prescott rev.5 cache: 2048 KB
flags: (lm pae sse sse2 sse3) bmips: 6382
clock speeds: max: 3203 MHz 1: 3203 MHz 2: 3203 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller
bus-ID: 00:02.0
Display Server: X.Org 1.19.2
drivers: intel (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 1440×900
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel G33 x86/MMX/SSE2
version: 2.1 Mesa 13.0.6 Direct Render: Yes
Audio: Card Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Def. Audio Controller
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.9.87-antix.1-486-smp
Network: Card: Realtek RTL8101/2/6E PCIE Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller
driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: e800 bus-ID: 01:00.0
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 86.1GB (10.8% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD800BD size: 80.0GB
ID-2: USB /dev/sdb model: Flash_Disk size: 2.1GB
ID-3: USB /dev/sdc model: DataTraveler_2.0 size: 4.0GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 71G used: 3.3G (5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.15GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors: None detected – is lm-sensors installed and configured?
Repos: Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list
deb http://mirror.cedia.org.ec/mx-workspace/antix/sid sid main nosystemd
deb-src http://mirror.cedia.org.ec/mx-workspace/antix/sid sid main nosystemd
Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free
Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
Info: Processes: 156 Uptime: 10:45 Memory: 325.3/2007.5MB
Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 6.3.0
Client: Shell (bash 4.4.121) inxi: 2.3.54

Remember that I wipe out this disk to roll back and use the past version of antiX, the things here runs ok (with the outdate version of firefox and flashplugin); I tried pcsxr but same story as before, stilling picking X driver plugins goes with full enhacements for graphics without configuring it. Gonna try later on making some configurations in the OpenGL plugin of it, or I’ll end playing mathematics the rescue in the DoS box again.

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