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manimal347

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Registered: 2008-05-31

Posts: 7

Stuttering 3D rendering and crashing games: Nvidia 8600GT

I haven't played a single game in a good two months, and when I went to try to play Torcs, it crashed. Same with Ultimate Stunts. Super Maryo World and Maniadrive stutter, with top reporting that my Athlon 4600x2 is running at 100%. Sauerbraten, however, couldn't run finer. GLX Gears is giving a really poor score of about 1500FPS. I've freshly run Pacman to make sure everything's up to date. My latest-rev. drivers are installed through the repository, and were certainly working okay as of two months ago. Perhaps a setting default changed upstream and others are having this problem? I really need a suggestion on where to look.

Xorg is as follows:
"# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder3)  Thu Feb 14 18:20:37 PST 2008

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath         "/usr/lib/X11/rgb"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "keyboard"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 110.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 150.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
Option "Coolbits" "1"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection"

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From: NJ, USA

Registered: 2007-08-04

Posts: 620

Re: Stuttering 3D rendering and crashing games: Nvidia 8600GT

You aren't, by any chance, running a compositor?

At any rate, performance problems in NV 8x/9x cards are well-documented.  Please get the beta drivers, and follow the instructions herein.  Note that IPP=2 might cause a regression in GTK performance if you aren't using a compositor.

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From: NJ, USA

Registered: 2007-08-04

Posts: 620

Re: Stuttering 3D rendering and crashing games: Nvidia 8600GT

Oh, and what does

glxinfo |grep render

say?

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