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A while ago, I installed FC3 on my laptop and got everything setup right, including the nVidia driver. I ran Tux Racer to test it and worked great. Recently, I decided to give the game Neverball a try. Not only does it run slow, but now even Tux Racer runs very slow. Even the menu in Tux Racer is too slow to use - 1 fps or so. It's not like the nVidia driver is completely broken (ie: the "ever popular" permissions problem) or anything like that. It's just not running like it should. Does anyone have any idea why or how to fix it?
Just to eliminate a possibility, have you checked the fan (assuming it has one) is still working. I usually get slowdown when fans break and cards overheat.
Alternatively check your xorg.conf and make sure the driver is still "nvidia" and not "nv". After some X crashes that file seems to go back to the nv driver.
Make sure you're running your desktop at something decent like 1024x768 (or higher) @ 24 bit colour. 16 bit will work also and is better for older geforce, but on current fx cards and above 24 bit is a good idea.
If not any of the above, you could try installing the latest driver and see if that fixes it.
Originally posted by v00d00101 Just to eliminate a possibility, have you checked the fan (assuming it has one) is still working. I usually get slowdown when fans break and cards overheat.
Alternatively check your xorg.conf and make sure the driver is still "nvidia" and not "nv". After some X crashes that file seems to go back to the nv driver.
Make sure you're running your desktop at something decent like 1024x768 (or higher) @ 24 bit colour. 16 bit will work also and is better for older geforce, but on current fx cards and above 24 bit is a good idea.
If not any of the above, you could try installing the latest driver and see if that fixes it.
The system is a dual boot system and 3D acclleration works great under Windows. I use 1024x768 at 24 bits for both Windows and Linux. The oddest part about all this is that 3D used to work just fine but then slowed down. I guess I will give updating the driver a try and see what happens from there. More to come...
I looked in my Xorg log and sure enough, the nVidia driver couldn't load glx. When I was setting up the system, I copied all the nVidia devices from /dev/ to /udev/ so I wouldn't have to "modprobe nvidia" everytime I restarted the system. Could that be why glx isn't loading? If so, would copying glx files to a different location fix the problem?
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