Is this right?

airbrush · 01-11-03, 01:59 AM

system:
850mHz intel Celeron 256M
nVidia Geforce2MX400 (64meg)
Mandrake 9.0

I have this up and running, but I was wondering if the geforce card is "accelerating".
Whenever I try to run Tuxracer, the screen gets a frame rate of maybe 10 per min. it stops, waits 3 or 4 secs then jumps way ahead.
The rest of the games seem alright (the ones I have tried).
When I was installing mandrake the video card was listed as a gf2DDRgeneric, not MX400.
Do I need to install a new driver?
Is there a way to tell if the card is performing properly?
I have also read that X does this to games, is this my problem?
thank you
james

Interscope · 01-11-03, 04:45 AM

You're using the default XFree Drivers, they do not have OpenGL acceleration, and that is the reason that it is so slow.

Get the OpenGL drivers here and follow the instructions:
http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=li..._ia32_1.0-4191

01-11-03, 01:59 AM	#1
airbrush Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: southeastern US Posts: 2	Is this right? system: 850mHz intel Celeron 256M nVidia Geforce2MX400 (64meg) Mandrake 9.0 I have this up and running, but I was wondering if the geforce card is "accelerating". Whenever I try to run Tuxracer, the screen gets a frame rate of maybe 10 per min. it stops, waits 3 or 4 secs then jumps way ahead. The rest of the games seem alright (the ones I have tried). When I was installing mandrake the video card was listed as a gf2DDRgeneric, not MX400. Do I need to install a new driver? Is there a way to tell if the card is performing properly? I have also read that X does this to games, is this my problem? thank you james

01-11-03, 04:45 AM	#2
Interscope Registered User Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 9	You're using the default XFree Drivers, they do not have OpenGL acceleration, and that is the reason that it is so slow. Get the OpenGL drivers here and follow the instructions: http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=li..._ia32_1.0-4191