Right, so I have used ut before and it goes fine, not slow at all. But I recently reinstalled it and it is going REALLY slow. I have the nvidia drivers installed and I am sure they work as Rune works fine, and it is based upon ut. Anyone have any idea what might be wrong? Oh and by the way, the colors are REALLY psychadelic if that helps...

Perhaps the X settings you have are incompatible with the framebuffer settings UT is trying??

I've got LM9 and the texstar NVIDIA-rpms, all is going well.
Just downloaded the UT2003-demo and started it. Then i init3 and turned on 'X &' with a following 'export DISPLAY=":0" ', telling him where to find X....

I did that, to prevent my system beeing something slower because of a windowmanager

Try it that way, then you'll find out, what he did in "/var/logs/xfree4.0.log".

Perhaps he's initialising 16Bit colordepth and you run UT with 32?!

well I would think it is something like that but Rune (which uses the same engine) works fine...I am angry...

do u have a AGP or PCI video card? ut2k3 will not run with a PCI video card, it needs to be an AGP

it is an nvidia tnt2 it is an agp but the os sees it as a pci. and this is not ut2003

Try having a look at the UT config file under pathtoUT/system/ and using some of the tweaking guides on the the internet they'll work as well for UT settings under linux as they do under win.

be sure to not use a newer nvidia driver version with an older card... on windows the best driver for a tnt2 is 15.30

get a driver that worked for you in the past

In the UT2003 linux readme it says that older TNT and TNT2 cards are not supported since they don't have S3TC hardware.

Glitz.

this is the normal ut *not* 2k3. and the driver works fine for all other 3d programs. I am thinking about reinstalling. I upgraded instead of otherwise and that may be the root of the prob. thx anyway.