nVidia GeForce Ti200 OpenGL
 

Hi. I am using an nVidia GeForce 3 Ti 200 graphics card, the drivers are CARD: nVidia GeForce 3 (generic). Could anyone tell me how to get OpenGL working from hardware rather than sofware rendering? I'm guessing I need drivers for it but I'm not sure which drivers or whether it can be done with the generic drivers.
Thanks
Chris.

You will need to download nvidia's own drivers and follow the included instructions. They are very verbose so it should not pose too big a problem.


Håkan

I looked at that but they said i would have to recompile the kernel to 8k stacks instead of 4k, seems a rather long way around to get hardware rendering. Is there no way to get the hardware rendering with the generic drivers?
Thanks for your help,
Chris

No, I'm afraid not. nvidia has not released enough documentation to get hardware acceleration going with open source drivers.


Håkan

Ok, Ill download their drivers today :-(
Thankyou very much for your help, its greatly appreciated.
Chris

Just installed nVidia's drivers. Much simpler than their forums led me to believe - I didnt have to recompile the kernel at all. Just downloaded the files, reboot into runlevel 3 and install em.
After changing the xorg.conf file I get between 2500 and 3000fps with glxgears windowed, and about 300fps full screen :-)
Thankyou very much for your help.
Chris.