nvidia drivers not performing well in games

Cew27 · 2009-01-17 11:18:36

hey guys recently iunstalled openarena and savage 2, the graphics in both are very very slow like .3 frames per second until i press ctrl + alt + f2 then the s\me and f7 to restart x, why is this? also my performance in the nvidia config gui is always set to desktop.
thanks alot

Cew27 · 2009-01-17 11:56:20

also in the package search for nvidia i see the 180 drivers and i have 177.82, i cant seem to installthe newer 180 from extra

Cew27 · 2009-01-17 12:02:49

strike that last comment, just got the update avalible

Cew27 · 2009-01-17 18:08:21

anybody shed some light on this?

buttons · 2009-01-17 19:50:32

dmesg after playing?

Cew27 · 2009-01-17 21:11:27

sorry what does that mean?

buttons · 2009-01-17 21:16:39

The dmesg command prints messages from the kernel. Your nvidia driver is part of the kernel, so when it yells at you the messages can usually be found by typing this command.

Try running glxgears from a terminal or something, then type 'dmesg' and paste the output.

EDIT: BTW the dmesg command is very useful for seeing messages that come up during bootup. Most of what you'll see when you run the command is from boot time.

Last edited by buttons (2009-01-17 21:17:42)

Cew27 · 2009-01-17 23:10:53

this is what i got from glx gears when i exited

[cew27@Cew27 ~]$ glxgears
4301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 860.178 FPS
4371 frames in 5.0 seconds = 874.140 FPS
4077 frames in 5.0 seconds = 815.209 FPS
4221 frames in 5.0 seconds = 844.069 FPS
XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0"
      after 43 requests (43 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

dmesg shows lots from wireless nothing from graphics

buttons · 2009-01-18 00:31:00

What do you get if you try "glxinfo |grep direct" from a command line? It should say "Direct rendering: Yes" if your driver is working correctly.

Cew27 · 2009-01-18 11:00:02

[cew27@Cew27 ~]$ glxinfo |grep direct
direct rendering: Yes
GL_EXT_depth_bounds_test, GL_EXT_direct_state_access,
[cew27@Cew27 ~]$

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nvidia drivers not performing well in games

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