Nvidia ti4200 - slow rendering FC2

[Skythra]

Okay i just installed the nvidia drivers for linux

[b]sbin/init 3[/b[

and then

sh NVIDIA-cr-ap

and then

edited the xorg.conf

Now, when i go glxgears in terminal it puts out 55fps or a 250 render.. whats up? on q3 on linux using a mx200 i got 50-60 fps online, and im only getting a similar ammount now, but with a far more extreme card.

:C anyone help please? are there other things in the xorg.conf other then remove the couple of lines and ad "nvidia" ? or is there anything else? also i installed the NFORCE drivers... would that kill anything? that was mostly the sound card part of the chipset rather then anything to do with the video adapter...

[techieMoe]

Please post your complete computer specs so we can better help you. I've used a Geforce 4 ti4200 in FC2 and had wonderful results. It might also be good if you posted the very first section and the "Display" section of your Xorg.conf.

[Skythra]

Athlon XP 2600+ (1.93ghz)
Gf4 ti4200 (64mb vivo version)
40gig seagate 7200(isa)
1280mb pc2700 (ddr 333) [just blew the PSU of my other box and so stole the ram and its HDD to try fedora on this PC with good specs)
a7n400-x (asus board w/ nforce2 chipset)


I have a feeling it could be the driver for the chipset i screwed.. but the config ill post:


xorg.conf

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "single head configuration"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database.  Note, this is the name of the 
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db").  There is normally
# no need to change the default.
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
	RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
	FontPath     "unix/:7100"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "dbe"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "fbdevhw"
	Load  "glx"
	Load  "record"
	Load  "freetype"
	Load  "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
#	Option	"Xleds"		"1 2 3"
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
#	Option	"XkbDisable"
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults).  For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
#	Option	"XkbModel"	"pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
#	Option	"XkbModel"	"microsoft"
#
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
#	Option	"XkbLayout"	"de"
# or:
#	Option	"XkbLayout"	"de"
#	Option	"XkbVariant"	"nodeadkeys"
#
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
#	Option	"XkbOptions"	"ctrl:swapcaps"
# Or if you just want both to be control, use:
#	Option	"XkbOptions"	"ctrl:nocaps"
#
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "keyboard"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc105"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
	Option	    "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
	ModelName    "SyncMaster"
	DisplaySize  300	230
	HorizSync    30.0 - 60.0
	VertRefresh  56.0 - 75.0
	Option	    "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "nvidia"
	VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
	BoardName   "NVIDIA GeForce 4 ti4200"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
	Group        0
	Mode         0666
EndSection

(also on a personal note, you really dont need to quote my entire post when replying, im pretty sure everyone knows who you are talking to and what about =p.)

edit: i probably dont mean isa hdd.

[techieMoe]

Yeah, I was wondering about the HDD. With a relatively new Asus board you probably mean IDE. From what I can tell your Xorg.conf is correct. I've had issues installing the Nvidia nforce Linux drivers before, however, so I wouldn't be at all suprised if that's your problem. Uninstalling them could be tricky, and I've never done it myself. If you're not terribly worried about losing anything, you could always reinstall your distro and only install the display drivers, not the nforce ones.

[Skythra]

Yeah that was going to be my next step... but just like my old windows days, i dont want to because

a) i have alot of programs all working all really well.
namely just cedega.. so... off i go to format

[Skythra]

Total reinstall of FC2 and i now get 16000fps in 5 seconds in glxtestthingwhatever... thats like a few thousand frames every second and exactly what i was hoping for.

The lesson probably is: dont install the nforce drivers :C

[Stormblazer]

I had that same problem with the nForce drivers:
they break everything untill you uninstall them.