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Michael

On Saturday 04 September 2004 08:57 am, Dow Hurst wrote:
> Ah! The nvidia driver is worlds better than the ATI as far as I know.
> Even the low end card like you have will perform pretty well compared to
> an equivalent ATI version card.  The Rage Pro is old as well as the card
> you have Matt.  Also, the CPU speeds are pretty low for gaming.  I'd
> think your doing well with your setup.
>
> 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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