3d games run CRAPPY! do I need Glide?

[tvance]

I have a 32MB TNT2 Nvidia card, everything installed great (Mandrake 9)...

tried searching, looked like I needed to install Glide... is that correct? (I dont have the disks with me so I couldnt install and couldnt check)...

But that Penguing race and the 3dtron and such all run slow and one of em eventually freezes....

sorry to be such a newb but I am what I am ...thanks!

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[ALLYOURBASE]

WHOA i'm not alone!:eek:
My geforce for some reason can't handle TUX racing or any basic game!
I wonder why?

[rdlevan]

both of you most likely need to download/install/enable 3D support form nvidia.

If you go to their website, under downloads/Linux you will see that you need two files. One being a kernel driver and the other being the glx one. Both of these need to me installed before you can play any 3D games. There is adequate documentation on the nVidia site as well as plenty here. Just do a search for nVidia drivers in this forum.

After installing both of the above files, you'll need to edit your XF86Config file to reflect the changes. An example of what it should look like is included with the README that comes with the packages you download.

You can test it quickly by opening up a terminal.

type: glxgears

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3Ddiag

[Dun'kalis]

If that doesn't work, I'd take a guess at whats going on. If this doesn't work, I'll tell you what I did to make 3D faster. It was fairly hazardous (I took precautions beforehand, though), so I'll tell you how to do it if it doesn't work.

It has nothing to do with Glide. I've got a GeForce2, and Glide is for 3DFX cards. Its your OpenGL libs. Long story short, test the drivers firsl.

[bsm2001]

you definately need to download and install the new nvidia driver. I would recomend that you get the source rpm and rebuild them in a terminal.then install. make sure you install the kernel first then the glx once you have done that then edit your xf86config-4 file to read as this

Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx" # 3D layer

Section "Device"
Identifier "device1"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "RIVA TNT2"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "DPMS"

once this is done test the configuration and then restart the machine. once all is done you should see the nvidia logo just before the login screen.

[ALLYOURBASE]

Originally posted by rdlevan
both of you most likely need to download/install/enable 3D support form nvidia.

If you go to their website, under downloads/Linux you will see that you need two files. One being a kernel driver and the other being the glx one. Both of these need to me installed before you can play any 3D games. There is adequate documentation on the nVidia site as well as plenty here. Just do a search for nVidia drivers in this forum.

After installing both of the above files, you'll need to edit your XF86Config file to reflect the changes. An example of what it should look like is included with the README that comes with the packages you download.

You can test it quickly by opening up a terminal.

type: glxgears

-or-

3Ddiag

Oh... i never knew i had to download two things, THANKS;)

[hecresper]

I take it this applies for me, too. I've been trying to get Quake 2 going for the past few days. I know exactly what to do for the installation process, but the game does not run correctly.

[ALLYOURBASE]

I tried downloading the 2 drivers but, everytime i restart it crashes my computer. I used NVchooser, I followed everything. I formatted my harddrive because it crash!

[Dun'kalis]

Try this...Be very careful, however...It may break your X. This is why we make backups. Quit to a console to do this.

cd /usr/lib
mv libGL.so.1.4.500 XXXlibGL.so.1.4.500
ln -s libGL.so.1.0.2960 libGL.so.1.4.500

Your versions will vary. The second file is the libGL included with your nvidia drivers. Starting X now *should* work perfectly. If not, remove the link to libGL.so.1.4.500 and move the original back.

[tvance]

what LINUX do I use ?? On the NVidia site it has LnuxIA32 , LinuxIA64, and LinuxAMD64...what is this?

Im running mandrake9 and have an AMD duron 800mhz...

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[ALLYOURBASE]

Thats your processor bit, a32 means standard bit, a64s are if you spent about $9000 on your processor, so use the a32. and download nvchooser.

[tvance]

Yo, I cant get NVChooser to download.....

nor can I get to the mirror sites to see if it is there.

should I wait for a better time? or can someone send it to me?

I downloaded the RPM driver but dont know what kernel I should download, so I will wait... it was wierd, the RPM popped up quickly and downloaded but the NVChooser never came up nor did the mirrors.....

if anyone can just give me the file that would be cool....thanks!
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[ALLYOURBASE]

Originally posted by tvance
Yo, I cant get NVChooser to download.....

nor can I get to the mirror sites to see if it is there.

should I wait for a better time? or can someone send it to me?

I downloaded the RPM driver but dont know what kernel I should download, so I will wait... it was wierd, the RPM popped up quickly and downloaded but the NVChooser never came up nor did the mirrors.....

if anyone can just give me the file that would be cool....thanks!
tv

Just wait for a better time, try every few minutes for Nvchooser it will work, Just click and wait a bit.

[bwkaz]

Originally posted by ALLYOURBASE
I tried downloading the 2 drivers but, everytime i restart it crashes my computer. I used NVchooser, I followed everything. I formatted my harddrive because it crash! And did you edit your XF86Config(-4 if it exists) file, so that it actually uses these new drivers? Heck, did you look at your /var/log/XFree86.0.log file to diagnose the problem before just reinstalling? You can fix stuff in Linux without reinstalling. Reinstalling is a Windows reaction to problems, STOP DOING IT!!

Post what you did, step by step. Then, do it again, but this time, instead of reinstalling the moment your GUI stops working, boot to a CLI login screen instead, log in, run startx, check out the error there, copy /var/log/XFree86.0.log to somewhere that you can post it here (for example, a Windows partition), and post it here (as an attachment).