quake3 super slow

[wincen]

I just installed quake3, and the latest nvidia drivers, but quake3 is slow as $hit. I saw someone else on a linux quake board say he fixed it by doing this:

"I had to recompile the Glide3 libs with DRI support. I also removed any traces of Mesa libs
(mesag3 package).. and it works great now."

I have no idea what that means. This machine has a Geforce 2 MX so I don't know if DRI applies to me or not.

[DaMasta]

After you compiled the drivers, did you update the driver in your XF86Config-4 file with nvidia instead of nv?

[wincen]

Thanks for the reply.

I didn't compile the drivers manually cuz I got the rpms, and I did not update my XFree86-4 file. How do I update it? Is there some guide online?

[demetrius]

Lots of guides actually, you also would find quite a few posts about it on this messageboard if you were to search. At any rate, the changes you need to make to XF86Config-4 are as follows:
1. Under Section "Module" uncomment or add the line: Load "glx"
2. Under Section "device" change Driver "nv" to Driver "nvidia"


As long as you dont have any mesaGL files hanging around thats all you should need to do to get Quake3 to work.

[demetrius]

<STRONG>
"I had to recompile the Glide3 libs with DRI support. I also removed any traces of Mesa libs
(mesag3 package).. and it works great now."
</STRONG>
By the way, this refers to installing drivers for a Voodoo card, not an Nvidia card. Nvidia doesn't use either Glide nor DRI.