Burns, With that system Descent 3 should fly. I believe you may be right about the sofware rendering turned on. The first thing I would do is run the program "gears" this will bring up a cute little window with some gears spinning in it. In the console it will tell you what kind of frame rates you are recieving. If these frame rates are less than 1250 the odds are you have software rendering enabled. To change this you need to execute as root the switch2nvidia_glx command. This will change your rendering to hardware. Also double check your Descent settings as I believe that there is a place for software rendering there also. Austing Morgan On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 10:57:43AM -0400, burns wrote:
I don't want to hijack this thread but I am also having an NVIDIA/game issue.
Although I am not really a gamer, I bought a copy of Descent3 for Linux to help support Loki. I have it working, but the frame rate and control responses are so sluggish that it is completely un-playable.
I am running a Creative TNT2 Ultra 32Mb 32bit AGP card on an AMD Athalon Thunderbird 1400MHz processor, with 512Mb of DDRAM, through SuSE 7.2 Pro. I have downloaded and installed the latest drivers. NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-1541.suse72.i386.rpm and NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-1541.suse72.i386.rpm (just released last week). I have also run SaX2 and confirmed the card's configuration and selected the GLX driver. However the problem still persists.
I suspect the problem may be that software acceleration (vice hardware) is enabled. Does anyone know:
1) If this is likely the problem and, if not, what is?
2) If it is, how do you switch off software acceleration?
3) When you use SaX2, the first thing it asks you is do you want 3D enabled. Does this refer to software or hardware acceleration/rendering?
None of the SuSE or Nvidia reference material has been of much help. -- burns
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