In this guide we will see how to enable the VDPAU hardware acceleration in flash player on Ubuntu and derivatives for any Nvidia, Intel and AMD GPU.
VDPAU (Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix) is the name of a library that allows to assign a part of the workload of decoding and post-processing a video to the GPU; this features can be used even for Flash playback.
In Ubuntu the native support for the VDPAU hardware acceleration is not active by default, but it can ben enabled with the following procedure:
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Slow the camera rotation speed in Star Wars: The Old Republic
A common technical problem with Star Wars: The Old Republic is that the mouse control for rotating the camera angle is very sensitive and if you are too accustomed to any other game sensitivity, you may be frustrated to keep finding yourself turned to the wrong direction by a “small” mouse movement.
Fortunately there is a way to fix it and it is similar to the procedure to increase the camera distance in Star Wars: The Old Republic.
Increase the camera distance in Star Wars: The Old Republic
Do you play Star Wars: The Old Republic and you are not happy with the limited camera distance? There is a way to increase it beyond the limit offered by the game configuration window.