Ok, i got my nvidia drivers installed alright and i changed the line in that file to say nvidia instead of nv, now when i try to open armagetron all that happens is i see the tron window in my taskbar and an hourglass flips around a couple times, then the window dissapears, this happens with any game i try to open in fullscreen...any clues? also i wanted to know if anyone knew how to install ut2k3, i tried double clicking the install file but it just asked me what program i would like to use to open it, and i also tried dragging the file into the konsole but it said cannot execute binary file....any clues?

did you uncomment "load glx"
did you comment out "load dri"
are there any specific errors that show up??
what does the command ......dmesg show??

run the app on the command line and see what it tells you for an error.

there are no errors at all, the program just never shows up, all i see in the file for load is load "dbe" load "v41" load "extmod" load "type1" load "freetype" load "glx" and glx isn't a comment, although it is red, and load is green...i don't know what the colors mean in linux though

If this is happening in a lot of programs then make sure they are installed, KDE will try to load a program and show that hourglass even if it dosnt exists. Open up a terminal and run the program from there too see if its installed.

If you click on a shell script in Konqueror ( I can tell your a Windows User) then ur right, KDE will try and execute the program with something, you can choose run in terminal, however a much more natural way would be to open up a new terminal window, cd to where you have the file and run ./UT2003install.sh as root

ie:

su sh ./UT2003install.sh

cheers
Dave.