On Mon, 2006-12-25 at 21:37 +0000, Andy Campbell wrote: > I played Quake 4 on FC5 quite happily 20+ FPS @1600x1200, > now under FC6 I'm lucky if I can get above 10FPS. > > Details ... > > + FC6 64bit > + Nvidia GeForce 7800 GS > + AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+ > + xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.9631-1.lvn6 > + Fresh install of FC6, I've still got FC5 on a different partition > if you need any details. > + FC5 was a 32bit install > + I've turned Desktop effects off > + glxgears gives ~4200FPS > > > I've tried reducing the resolution to 1280x1024 - its not much better. > > I've also noticed text and the pointer don't seem to get rendered > properly now > either - which make it look the driver to me. > > > Anyone had similar issues ? I'm trying to decide if its the 9xxx > drivers - not that easy to > try the 8xxx drivers as they don't exist in livna for the current > kernels, and the there are > the warnings of the potential problems with the NVidia installer and > Fedora. Or perhaps its > because I decided to try 64bit Fedora this time - not convinced. Or > something else ? > > > Thanks > Andy > I have a similar machine - and both Quake 4 and Doom3 works just fine. Dual Opteron 270, 2GB, GF6800GT, 88.xx/9x.xx drivers. - Gilboa
