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I've noticed the Nvidia 5200 FX cards are only around $100 now.  You 
could try that out from Microcenter and take it back if it doesn't 
perform the way you'd like within 30 days.
Dow


Matthew Magee wrote:

> Geoffrey wrote:
>
>> Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone here play Unreal Tournament on Linux?  I've got a UT 
>>> server on Linux, but recently decided to try to actually play the 
>>> game on Linux.  The install went great, I'm at v436, installed Bonus 
>>> Pack 1, and I was ready to play.  When I fired up the game though, 
>>> it was running at a crawl.  The image looked really nice, it was 
>>> just very slow.  As an example, the intro movie was moving frame by 
>>> frame.  Below are the specs (that I know to look for) on the machine.
>>
>>
>>
>> Sounds like you might be missing hardware acceleration.  You really 
>> want the hardware acceleration if you want the fps.
>>
>> Look in your config file for:
>>
>> Section "Module"
>> .
>> .
>> Load    "dri"
>> .
>> .
>> EndSection
>>
>> and:
>>
>> Section "DRI"
>>     Group    "video"
>>     Mode    0660
>> EndSection
>>
> I had no problems running UT GOTY on my machine at 1024x768.  (and 
> higher!)
>
> Although I can't back this statement up with any facts, I will say 
> that I found performance for anything multimedia on Fedora 1 or 2 to 
> be terrible.  I switched to Mandrake, and all is well with the games 
> and audio.  Must be some MM and preemption tweaks in the MDK supplied 
> kernel???
>
> If you really are using an accelerated driver, then we have a mystery 
> on our hands.  UT should fly on your box.
>
> I was using:
>
> Duron 750
> 256MB RAM (PC100)
> Nvidia GeForce 4 MX 440 W/64M of SDRAM
>
> Mandrake 9.2
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