This is very long winded and not scientifically exact.
I can only be partly-responsible if you damage your installation :P
Anyway, this is a series of steps I've done to ensure I get the most out of games.
Your input and corrections and further suggestions are appreciated.
This only applies for Nvidia driver Graphics card.
Rendering
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Firstly you will notice that if you run a game such as
Legends you will notice some bad bugs.
Mainly the rendering.
So to fix that I've uninstalled Sax2
reinstalled the
nvidia-driver
choosing not the latest version but the previous or 2 previous.
then manually editing the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
to make sure we have "nvidia" and not "nv" in the section "Device":
Section "Device"
BoardName "GeForce2 MX/MX 400"
BusID "1:0:0"
Driver "nvidia"
Identifier "Device[0]"
Screen 0
Option "DPMS"
VendorName "NVidia"
EndSection
I am not sure if its Sax massive outputs that contributes to bizarre rendering.
But whenever I could I've commented out lines which I think does not apply to me.
(Note *always* have a back up)
Now that should get at least games like Legends and Enemy-Territory to work fine.
Installing TuxGames
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Any
Tuxgames will *not* install if you dont have the appropiate versions of head and tail.
They sent me via email and I've temporarily uploaded up my site.
Download // removed //
extract and install the two files to your /bin directory overwriting the older one.
Tuxgames should work now.
Getting more Frames Per Second
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I know this seems silly - and would appreciate your input.
Type ps -ax on the console
If you are on KDE you should get a line such as:
2016 ? RL 3:36 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -dpi 100 -dpi 100 -dpi 100 -dpi 100 -dpi 100 -dpi 100 -dpi 100 -dpi 100 -dpi 100 .. etc
My feeling is that contributes a lot to a slower FPS
I still couldn't find a way to fix that - so I've changed my login manager from KDM to GDM
Now because Gnome with complain about lots of things bonobos/gconfs etc (all easily remedied by doing a rm -fr /tmp/* ) - and because I rebooted just to play a game.
I choose "Safe Terminal"
I kill the processes Lisa and Cups which (dont ask me why) contribute to a slower FPS.
Now I dont know what I've done but whenever I reboot I get console - not GDM or KDM which suits me fine (depending which mode I am in : work or play)
so again if i reboot
i log in as root
kill the processes lisa and cups
and type in gdm
login as safe terminal
and then fire whatever game.
games run pretty optimal now.
I know all that long-winded procedure is far from ideal.
But am hoping that sharing with you - we can spot where the problem lies and we can fix it - so that .. well we dont have to go through such a long-winded procedure
Nevertheless I get great FPS from doing all that.
