NVIDIA with games experience....

[Frederick, Bryan]

You may have to use the 16k stack kernel...  The kernel that comes with
FC2 doesn't work real well with the NVIDIA driver.  You can get the 16k
stack kernel at:

http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/full/downloads-fc2-kernel-i686.php

You might just try that and see if it helps any.

Bryan

On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 17:20, Bikehead wrote:
> I'm talking about the one from nvidia.com ("nvidia").  I'm sure its 
> being used by X since I get the splash screen.
> 
>    __o
>  _-\<,_   Brian
> (_)/ (_)  bikehead at amberpoint.com  x503
> 
> 
> 
> Jim Martin wrote:
> 
> > Are you talking about the default nvidia driver? or the one from 
> > nvidia.com?
> >
> > I use the nvidia driver from nvidia.com and all my games work great, 
> > both native and wine based. I have no problems at all.
> >
> > I believe the nvidia (nv) driver that comes with linux is not the best 
> > driver available, it does not ( that I know of) support enhanced 
> > graphics, or openGL. of course, i could be wrong.
> >
> > BaVinic
> >
> > Bikehead wrote:
> >
> >> I was wondering if anyone had any experience with using the NVIDIA 
> >> driver undet FC3 using a game.  I can use the NVIDIA driver under FC3 
> >> sync'ed up to the latest rawhide for the normal desktop.  However, 
> >> when I use neverwinter nights, FPS performance is very bad: about a 
> >> frame a second.  I guess I should be fairly happy it runs at all!
> >>
> >> I do have to run the game as root to overcome some permission 
> >> problems with the NVIDIA devices.  Other than that the game doesn't 
> >> complain about anything, but display performance is slow.
> >>
> >> Any comments or suggestions are welcome.
> >>
> >