gaming fps

Canadian_2k2 · 02-12-2004, 10:04 PM

Hi

I have a P4 1.8ghz with 256 mb ram
I am running Mandrake 10.0 Beta
I am playing a game gl-117, a flight simulator game, and at the lowest quality, im only getting <7 fps. Why?? when an identical computer running XP is killing in the fps rate. Should I use the preemptitive and low latency patch, should I upgrade to kernel 2.6.2? Is it a kernel problem?

What is a good benchmarking tool that will tell me (not running under wine) my latency and other stats?

Thanks

Nis · 02-12-2004, 10:09 PM

Do you have hardware acceleration? If you're running an NVidia or ATI card you need download and install the right drivers. This should improve your framerate.

Kujila · 02-12-2004, 10:14 PM

Eh, I tried to do that, but it butchered my display...

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=144957

Canadian_2k2 · 02-12-2004, 10:25 PM

I have an intel integrated video card, I dont know what model, I cant seem to find it in dmesg, it's i8xx, i think it's either i810 or i845, but I have no idea, should I try to find a driver for it?

Canadian_2k2 · 02-12-2004, 11:05 PM

I installed the new 2.6 kernel with i810 support, will that help? it is compiling right now, so I'll post again if it works