For some reason I have jumped through all the hoops in installing the NVidia drivers on Mdk10.2 but I get abysmal framerates in every application! Glxgears ran fullscreened only gets about 260FPS. I have reinstalled the drivers, and inserted the nvidia driver into xorg and my xorg.conf file is perfect according to the nvidia docs.

The only thing that I can think of is that when I type nvidia-settings I get an error with libXv.so.1 not being found but I have no idea if that has anything to do with it.

I got better framerates with a ATI Radeon 9000 Pro in UT2004.

Can anyone give me some tips on things to try to alleviate this problem??

Hmmm, that is strange. I have never had a problem like that on any distro. Could you please post you xorg.conf without any commented out sections please

Do it the Dalek way

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ticle&artid=30

also give us some more specs of your system
I'm using that particular card with no problems

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I am using an AMD XP 2000+ with 256mb ram. My card is a XFX Geforce FX 5200 PCI 256mb.

Here is my Xorg.conf file:
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\

Section "Files"
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
FontPath "unix/:-1"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
#DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort)
AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse does not work
#DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "ddc" # ddc probing of monitor

# Load "GLcore"
Load "dbe"

# Load "dri"
Load "extmod"
Load "bitmap" # bitmap-fonts
Load "speedo"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "record"
Load "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "en_US"
Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "monitor1"
VendorName "Generic"
ModelName "1280x1024 @ 60 Hz"
HorizSync 31.5-64.3
VertRefresh 50-70

# TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output.
# 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync
ModeLine "768x576" 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630

# 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync
ModeLine "768x576" 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "device1"
VendorName "nVidia"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic)"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "DPMS"
Option "IgnoreEDID" "1"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "screen1"
Device "device1"
Monitor "monitor1"
DefaultColorDepth 24

Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Virtual 1280 1024
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
Depth 15
Virtual 1280 1024
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Virtual 1280 1024
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Virtual 1280 1024
EndSubsection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "layout1"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
Screen "screen1"
EndSection

Below is quoted from the NVIDIA readme (in particular, take note of the last line):

Remove the line:

Driver "nv"
(or Driver "vesa")
(or Driver "fbdev")

and replace it with the line:

Driver "nvidia"

Remove the following lines:

Load "dri"
Load "GLCore"

In the "Module" section of the file, add the line (if it does not already
exist):

Load "glx"

Well, did everything again, reinstalled EVERYTHING, and still nothing.

Glxgears is only pulling like 256 FPS still which is absymal.

Thanks for all the suggestions, but anyone else have any ideas?

~Drakkath