Ubuntu on a Pentium III 1ghz and games lag bad - why?
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Ubuntu on a Pentium III 1ghz and games lag bad - why?
I am running a P3 1ghz machine and so far everything other than email and browser seem to lag bad, such as Lincity, and scorched earth. I was really expecting Ubuntu to run like greased lightning. Is there something I need to tweak or is this the norm? (I can't believe this is normal)
Java on Firefox runs fine. Local installs such as scorched 3D are lagging to the point of not being playable.
I find it hard to believe I was running bloat-ware by the evil empire and can't get simple linux things to function, has to be some tweak somewhere I'm missing, easy miss for a n00b right?
After I get my feet wet and get the hang of running linux I'll dump the GUI and become a purist LOL
That's a reasonable card, not by far the best, but you should be able to run many games with it.
I'm not sure what drivers ubuntu comes with but copy and paste this into a terminal, press Enter, and see if it gives the same result:
Code:
glxinfo | grep direct
It should say:
Code:
direct rendering: Yes
If not, then I'm pretty sure there exists the proprietary nvidia driver in the ubuntu repo, all you need to do is install it. You will need the 96.43.xx drivers for that card, as it is old.
I was really expecting Ubuntu to run like greased lightning.
The only thing that is going to run like greased lightening on that box is puppy. And if you get it running xfce or icewm and spend some time messing around with it you could have a pretty functional system. That thing just does not have the grunt to run ubuntu fast.
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