BFG-C2D Video Screenshot
May 4th, 2007
What does your video card do when you’re not playing games?
My desktop.
Gentoo Linux 2.6.20-viper4
System:
- cpu: Intel Core 2 Duo 6600
- mobo: BFG nForce 680i SLI
- gpu: nvidia BFG 8800 GTS
- heatsink/fan: the tower has arrived
- psu: BFG 600W ATX Power Supply
- case: Antec Super LanBoy
- storage: 3x Seagate 160gb sataII
- ram: PNY Verto Gamer Memory
- (old)OC/benchmarks: 3dMark05 and 3dMark06 benchmark scores at 3.375Ghz
Apps shown:
- gdm
- gnome
- k3b
- audacious
- theGimp2.2
- digikam
- mplayer.
Desktop Effects:
- Beryl + Compiz Fusion + Metacity
- Nvidia Drivers : in portage
- Tutorial: HowTo on Gentoo
102 Responses to “BFG-C2D Video Screenshot”
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OMFG thats awsome!!!!
That really is awesome
Man, your not the first person to ever use Compiz Fusion. It’s been out for ages now.
What did you use to get the flame effect on a program open/close?
This is freaky cool. Who is the music by?
But can you play Team fortress 2? Call of Duty 4? World of Warcraft?
If you can.. sign me up.. if not.. I stick with windows :(.
To Vindicoth: Of course you can play WoW, TF2, And CoD4 with a simple app called Wine.
@phill: i never said i’m the first person to use Compiz.
@Andrew: it’s an option that can be enabled through Beryl Manager
@zertner: Mae - Futuro(Live)
@Vindicoth: I’ve played WoW through wine, it works nicely. People say that Steam games work through wine, but i haven’t tried it yet, i still play TF2, CoD4, and BF2142 by booting to windows. I play Dota most of the time anyway (WC3/FT custom map) through wine and it works great.
Awesome CF demo!
What’s the name of that song?!
the name of the song is Mae - Futuro(Live)
Wow I have to say the way you have your system setup is pretty badass. I normally use a laptop but I am going to get a desktop as well and would like to have a similiar setup. What kind of hardware specs do you think I need? Also, I am not a gamer so I dont need anything crazy, however, I would want to enjoy the same effects you just showed.
Absolutely Stunning! Makes me want to whip out some linux distros and start playing around again.
How’d this make Digg? I’ve seen more impressive Compiz Fusion demos…
…which, by the way, you failed to list in your Apps list.
Hehe neat… but can you write that virus while getting some oral stimulation that can run on both on your machine AND an alien mothership? Compiz is the eye candy yo, gotta loveit.. :P
I had compiz fusion working on ubuntu (feisty) a few months ago but it wasn’t easy.. and it was buggy on my ati mobility (same effects though)
..is it built into the latest install of Gentoo or did it take some work getting the right packages
I’d hate to have to spend hours setting it back up.
all of this superfluous 3d nonsense is making baby jesus cry. if you really want to sell this, stick to the enhancements that promote usability. the last thing i need when i’m moving a window is to have to wait for it to finish flopping around like grandma’s boobs so that i can tell when i should let go.
8800 GTS?? do you really need so much power just for compiz? I have a 7300gt and on freebsd its just works.
@cocoa: of course you don’t need that much power for compiz. I have a friend who runs compiz, beryl and emerald on Debian on his Thinkpad, which has an Intel integrated graphics card. That is, he has no dedicated video RAM to speak of, and it runs in real time, videos playing, flame effects, rotating desktop environment, etc.
@cocoa: of course you don’t need that much power for compiz. I have a friend who runs compiz, beryl and emerald on Debian on his Thinkpad, which has an Intel integrated graphics card. That is, he has no dedicated video RAM to speak of, and it runs in real time, videos playing, flame effects, rotating desktop environment, etc.
Glad to see someone posting a Gentoo machine. I wonder if Daniel Robbins will email you asking you to support his hostile takeover.
“What does your video card do when your not playing games?”
Mine what is not playing games? I think Sir you meant: you’re
@Cyrus, you don’t need a crazy system, decent specs will work. try to get an nvidia video card.
@B-Con, Beryl+Compiz Fusion is desktop effects that style window managers demonstrated in the video, not really an “app shown” in the video. I’m pretty sure people already know what it is by now, but added to the list for reference anyway.
@Mark, it’s really easy to set up in Ubuntu, you should try it again, but it’s better with Nvidia video cards, especially with the new (beta) nvidia drivers with GL compositing built in. you don’t have to mess with XGL, AIGLX, etc. i tried all of them and i got the best glxgears score with Nvidia drivers’ composite extensions than the rest by far. and no, it is not built into Gentoo. Gentoo is all about choices.
@GutsyFTW i know i don’t need a 8800gts for compiz my 7300gt works just fine with compiz on freebsd. I mean if you are going to do is watch videos, play with the silly efects of compiz,gimp and all the stuff that was showed in the video you just wasted money.
I’ve got almost all of the same effects running on my laptop actually, it’s so cool, isn’t it?
cocoa - like I said, I run these effects in ubuntu on my laptop, it’s got a GeForce Go 7900GS and is able to run it just fine, my roommate does the same with his laptop running on a GeForce 8600m GS, so it’s not THAT graphics intensive, although it will require a fairly decent card.
Also, Remix - I -LOVE- Mae so much! Futuro was perfect for this video.
@Mark
If you’re running Gutsy, all you have to do to set up compiz is, make sure you have the right video car d drivers, then run “sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager” then go to Settings > Preferences > Advanced Desktop Preferences. If you still don’t have anything, try right clicking on your desktop and enabling custom effects.
@Donny, yah… that’s what i meant.
@cocoa, that is the truth-fact, my 8800gts is perfect for BF2142, TeamFortress2, Portal, and CoD4 though… a little silly to waste beefy overpriced hardware the sixty percent of the time you’re not playing games though.
@Kuni, it’s all about the Everglow
That’s pretty sick. You gotta love CF and how it makes you want to chuck Vista and Winblows for good!
Is that Entrance at the beginning?
@dabb, nah just plain old gdm. other people asked for it, Gentoo-Grey-GDM.tar.gz is here
My eee PC can do that :)
The great thing about Linux (I use ubuntu) and Compiz Fusion, is that most of these effects even run smoothly on my 13Mhz Centrino powered laptop.
Makes Vista look like a Compwiz wannabe… It’s effects cant compare to the things that Linux can do, and not to mention how much it outperforms Vista on the same PC
Neat. What was the accompanying music?
i think i just came
That’s cool, what music is that?
I just read the comments carefully
it’s Mae - Futuro
slaps head
How much does BFG pay you?
Righto then. Time to switch to Linux.
yeah this is real, this is an example of what MS should be doing! Since they have so much money and stuff, its sickening, Linux isnt as widely used like as it should be :( Ubuntu and Gentoo aswell as Redhat pure rock! http://www.spymac.com/details/?2331904
Are you afraid of it? No, I just don’t like techno. You would if you had robot ears. Yeah I Guess.
very nice.
this is super old news. compiz fusion has been out for a while. it is default in ubuntu 7.10. probably took a while to get it working in gentoo, whereas in ubuntu it is there automatically.
<3 Pam Beesly
Most of those effects are annoying, but some look useful. Either way, this needs a whole load of bugfixes before it’s safe enough to think of using.
Agree with a few others about Compiz being out for ages now, still for the non techy is great eye candy. Also nice to see Mae in a tech video, Rob is my brother in law, although now he is no longer in the band.
Something that has been seen a thousand times before. Fantastic.
My video card and computer are off when I am not using them. Saving Energy++;
Thats a demonstration of Beryl, not linux, you can do that with most distros.
Guys, whatever…with a little tweaking you can get Vista to match or even exceed the performance of any Linux distro. This video proves it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU
Nice video.
Can you resize a window without using stretch or wire-frame mode without it lagging to hell?
Cool video, the effects and such are pretty cool, but to get them you have to run Linux. The pain in the ass Linux is to run isn’t worth it, especially considering how hard it is to game on in Linux. I’ll stick to Vista.
Wow seriously people compiz fusion, or originally compiz or even back to beryl…been around for more than a few years now… not exactly new software…only ones that see this as astounding are the vi$ta folks who think you need a friggin super computer to run winamp and have a nice looking interface
this makes ATI users cry :(
yeah this is soooo old. compiz fusion is standard on ubuntu now and there are way more intense effects… my pentium 4 can do this. with a c2d, you should be busting a different OS on each desktop.
Distracting stupid chartfunk. Its like Vista, using transparency for transparency sake nowhere else but the window title bar.
Flames? Jello Windows? What purpose does that serve at all, but distract you from doing actual work. It doesn’t even look pretty, but adds to stress. I don’t need my windows burning up or wobbling around.
How about make a real modern GUI where you’re inside a 3D environment, like a 3D shooter, and you can move files and folders around like 3D objects, and decend into them, and organize, and display file contents on the object itself.. something that would actually put a 3D card to use instead of this utter nonsense.
Those blue flame effect look awesome, I’m sure my productivity will rise using Photoshop CS3 and Adobe Premiere Pro 2. Oh wait~
sounds like someone is jealous
This is so damn old and not even a good demo of compiz fusion. Go away.
but how many bogomips are in your motherdisc?
omg, i almost came when the music kick in and he started to spin the desktop around to the different sides of the cube; every day i hate windows just a lil bit more.
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This amazing, I did not think BFG made a 680i that actually worked. They sent me a dozen of crappy ass boards.
fantastic !!!!!!!!!!
Thanks brother for showing the public the power of Linux!
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Let me get this straight… You think it’s cool to have a 3d rendered desktop.. but can’t even screen capture it, and resort to filming your monitor…
Nice special effects. Unfortunately, as in movie business nice special effects don’t yet make a good movie, also in computer use, nice desktop special effects may not always improve usability.
@NoRemorse of course you can screen capture on linux, :rolleyes: the creator either couldn’t be arsed, or didnt know how. http://www.linux.com/articles/38221 not only can you capture the screen to a video file you can even forward it entirely to another computer. http://digg.com/linuxunix/TutorialForwardingGNOMEover_SSH
Nice to see a fellow gentoo user spreading the word.
Nice job
Vindicoth, you can play those games, its called Wine, it runs programs like Windows would, except in linux.
To the existing Compiz users giving Remix a hard time because this is “only Compiz” and “old”, you need to read the other comments and put this in perspective. There are people (many, many people) that have no idea that your OS could do this. They are stuck in the MS mindset and this is absolutely shocking to them. I do demos on my laptop whenever I can and enjoy the jaw-dropping effect every time. I applaud Remix for enlightening the masses and if you are a true Linux fan, so should you. Well done Remix.
Thats awesome, I’ve decided to build a linux machine just cause of that.
What GTK2 engine + emerald theme were you using?
This is really nice. My machine just cacked on me, so maybe I will check out something like this. My old system had two SLI cards.. they worked ok, but the capacitors popped on one. After I reversed the order, they worked again. But today… poof… blew the motherboard too.
@FkJ: WaterVapor GTK Theme and AlphaCube Metacity Theme. you can download both of them here: http://remixtechnology.com/view/bfg-c2d-theme-downloads
Lol. What’s with the bunch of flamers? Oh yeah, sorry, must be a “my e-penis is bigger than yours” thing.
The fact you do this and really care is poor. Go to a bar, meet people. Read a novel, go for a run. Stop throwing windows around your desktop and posting it.
whats so special about nvidia? my old ati runs compiz fine in ubuntu on my laptop. either way this is always fun to show off, no real important purpose though.
I wish TheGimp opened for me as fast as it did for you.
wow, thats really cool! i noticed a lot of OS X like shortcuts in there, one more thing making me conside swithing over to linux.
Just to let everyone know, Compiz does not require gobs of ram. I am running Ubuntu 7.10 on a compaq presario laptop celeron 1.6ghz with 1 gig of ram and integrated intel graphics and Compiz runs fine with full effects on. The cube, fire, squishy windows, and 3d tabs all work great with NO LAG. Ubuntu runs so much faster than XP pro on the same laptop its crazy. No sudden system hangs, and when you open a directory you don’t get a stupid flashlight, its just there.
Really cool. Can’t stop watching it. I’m definitely switching. Thanks.
Very nice demo, man. What’s the name of the effect that “pops” the windows off the desktop when you rotate the cube?
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Who’s digging this piece of crap?
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Gentoo is not for th faint of heart. You can hose your system pretty easily. Be prepared to spend a lot of time on Google and the forums trying to figure out how to do even basic things. I run Sabayon (Gentoo based) and it’s taken many hours of sweating (and 2 reinstalls) to get it working right.
Who’s digging this piece of crap?
Damn. I have the 8600 GTS. I have ubuntu running the fancy shmany stuff.
Good looking stuff, and good media performance.
Unfortunately, without Illustrator, FrameMaker and Photoshop, I can’t do my job, so Linux will never be a factor for me.
Our mainstream software engineers could take a lesson from this in how to more economically use the processing power in our systems, though.
why waste such a good graphics card on a mac. mac’s are fror dumb people.
MisterNetHead Says: February 3rd, 2008 at 12:10 PM
Very nice demo, man. What’s the name of the effect that “pops” the windows off the desktop when you rotate the cube?
I wanna know that too. I couldn’t find it in compiz-fusion
@MisterNetHead and matt, it was a beryl-plugin, probably from version 0.1.3 but i can’t really remember off hand.
@Dadofamunky
dude what the f*ck… you can run all this by using Wine without any problems, seriously -.-’
go away >.>
cool, but completely pointless
And so? A lot of useless gimmicks you don’t need…
How does this improve usability?
OMG, thats awesome
linux rocks ++;
cheers cnh
Is there anyway you can get Linux distros with cool stuff like this already installed? Cause I have tried Linux and thought it was a little difficult getting some things working, but if I could download or even buy an ISO with some basic cool stuff then I would definitely switch to Linux.
way out man!
Not pointless…it’s a desktop manager…a lot of it is eye candy but a lot helps manage your windows. Also it doesn’t tax your gpu as much as most ppl think.
nothing to do with the topic here, but how much did it cost you to build your system? btw, great presentation :D
Did you get the optical sound to work with that board? I have the same setup, and cannot for the LIFE of me get the optical sound working.
Great setup though, very easy to setup as well.
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@ Helmut i don’t use onboard, i got a creative X-Fi card, and no.
@ jakeastside i forgot, it was well over $1000, but you can probably get the same specs (or better) for under $1000 now. just be on the look out for deals from online stores like newegg or outpost.
I have to ask if you filmed this using a camcorder/digital camera due to the fact that there’s a terrible lack of software solutions that do the same for Linux?
How come the video doesn’t work anymore?