why is it so slow????

vitoal · 09-30-2002, 04:32 PM

Hello,

I am running Red Hat 7.3 on P2 with 266 mhz and a riva tnt.

I am using GNOME and default games that come with the distribution like Maelstrom, run so slow that it takes almost a min for Graphicks on a screen to move. I never seen a game run so slow. That is a 2D game.

I would like to run Quake 3, how do I speed up things?

P 266 isn't bad with Riva tnt (well it sux for Q3 but 2d games must run smoothly).

Do I need to run Quake 3 from X window?

jetblackz · 09-30-2002, 05:09 PM

For your box, you should forget about Gnome & KDE. Try fluxbox, blackbox, fvwm, twm, and maybe E without all animations.

adam_boz · 09-30-2002, 07:20 PM

Also, if you are using a distro like redhat, there's probably a lot of stuff going on that you don't really need to be going on. do a "ps -e | less" to get a glimps of what is happening behind the scenes. Then you can research on how to disable some features.

Either way though.... FLUXBOX RULES!!!

neo77777 · 09-30-2002, 09:20 PM

And use Nvidia Detonator Drivers http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=li...splay_1.0-3123

vitoal · 09-30-2002, 10:28 PM

Thank you for replying so fast.

As I can see KDE and GNOME are resource needy. Thanx again.

By the way who knows what etc and var mean in the root directory. bin is binary, usr is users, but what does etc stand for?

neo77777 · 09-30-2002, 10:30 PM

etcetera, and variable I suppose, in /etc you usually would find configuration files, and in /var files that are replaced often like logs, etc. (he here is a reference to etcetera)