ive installed my videocard drivers, i get the nvidia splash screen

when i run glxgears i get aroung 300 fps, ive heard of people getting in the thousands, is 300 average, or should i be getting higher?


also, how do i configure the tv-out, i know about the options in the readme, but where do they go in the XF86config?

thanks

I feel your pain. I've spent a couple weeks reading about nvidia cards and how fast they should be going. If you'd like to read for yourself, check out nvnews.net and google. What I've found is that many other people are having these kinds of problems too, but there doesn't seem to be any single solution that solves everything.

For my GeForce2 MX200, I had to just tweak it until it worked better. I started with ~100 fps (glxgears), jumped to ~250 fps, and then pushed it up to ~400 fps. The first jump came when I enabled Fast Writes, and I pushed up the speed by overclocking the memory to ~170 MHz.

Check out /proc/driver/nvidia/agp to see the status and capabilities of your card. The program 'nvclock' enables you to overclock both the core and the memory. I found that overclocking the core gave a minimal, ~15fps, improvement and made the card unstable.

I hope you find more info than I did. If you do, please post what you find. Good luck!

i forgot to mention my system specs

1 Ghz celeron
448 MB RAM
60GB 7200rpm Hard Drive

footfrisbie, i found this little app, its seems to help a little, i got 50 fps more out of it its a start

YanC

Did you try nvclock or seeing if your card's optimizations were turned on?

how do i do that??

These two commands will tell you what your card can support.
And you can get nvclock from here.

I'm having trouble compiling YanC, but I'll keep trying.

how do i use nvclock, i think i have it installed i did what it said in the readme

I get about 349 with a mx200. I think the best test is running tux racer. if it runs at a decent speed than your ok. rember how slow it was without the nvidia driver?

I got YanC running, and it seems like a cool program. It provides another way to turn on alot of your optimizations, but it doesn't check to make sure whether or not your card even supports the optimizations. I'm a bit weary of programs that do that.

TAR, just run nvclock from the command line. First run 'nvclock -i', e.g.
I overclock my memory speed from ~145 MHz to ~170 MHz with the command 'nvclock -m 170'. This gives me ~450 fps in glxgears.

This reason why I overclocked the memory and not the core is because as you can see I have SDR video ram (as opposed to DDR), so I want the memory to keep up with my DDR system better.

WARNING: If you play with these settings be prepared to freeze your computer. You can quickly and easily make your video card very unstable.

Fast Writes or Sid Band Addressing are turned on using module options when the modules are loaded.

I've been having some problems with enabing fastwrites on my gforce2 mx400. I have yanc working but after I enable the fastwrites in it it still doesnt work when I restart the computer or xfree. Where do I need to go in the config file to turn it on manually?

from ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Li...496/README.txt

check the file /proc/drive/nvidia/agp/host-bridge to see if your host bridge supports fast write. I have the same problem with you, Mike Blick, but I am sad to find out my host bridge doesnt support it...

Wow! I've recompiled my kernel and reinstall the driver for my card. And I got a glxgears output as high as 1700+ FPS (formerly 300)! Try this. Maybe it helps.

when you recompiled the kernel...what specific settings did you tune to get such a fast fps?

ok, pretty silly question, but how do you test your FPS rate?