Tweaking linux for gaming, how?

Thetargos · 10-23-2004, 12:59 AM

And some people say (I do not use an nVidia card) say that switching from AGPGART to NVGART is beneficial for the 2D "lockup". Suggesting this may be an AGP issue rather than a graphics driver per se issue. The problem with NVGART is not solved, but some say that it is GREATLY reduced (some have never seen it when they switched and some rearely seen it [only once or twice tops after the switch]), you'll have to see how it turns out in your case.

Feldon · 10-23-2004, 06:52 PM

Interesting. I just decreased my default color depth in XF86Config-4 from 24 to 16 and increased my average fps by about 15! CS and dod are now actually playable.

Thetargos · 10-23-2004, 07:16 PM

Interesting!

ka9qlq · 10-23-2004, 11:07 PM

Thetargos
Well I ran hard-drake and un-picked then repicked my tnt2 and rebooted. Now I'm back to 500 fps. I see a via-agp in my modprob.preload but I'm not sure if I should comment that out. I'm still reading the Readme [and other stuff] to figure out hot to switch from agpgart to nvgart. Inch by Inch.
Alvin

ka9qlq · 10-31-2004, 11:37 AM

Thetargos
It seems when the screensaver [kde or xcreensaver] starts it does something that slows everything down. I did catch this in a terminal when flipping through the xscreansavers.

glslideshow: frame rate is only 4.5! Turning off pan/fade to compensate...

and after that everything slows. Any recomendations on a good cheap vid card that likes X?
Alvin