Lord Kenneth Posted July 19, 2004 Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 Distro: Mandrake Linux 10 Card: NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4200 I'm using the NVIDIA drivers but graphical intensive programs (NWN, America's Army, even ZSNES) use a TON of cpu power thus making my system lag and the programs skip (almost on a regular beat???). I can't find anything on google and I can't figure out how to fix this. The fact that it's eating so much CPU power makes me think there's something bugged with the NVIDIA drivers not being called/working properly. This is really hard to explain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Kenneth Posted July 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 I can have zsnes running w/o using too much power. The second I have my mouse hovering over the program, though, the cpu usage skyrockets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted July 19, 2004 Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 Might want to post your XF86Config-4 file so we can see it.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Kenneth Posted July 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 # File generated by XFdrake. # ********************************************************************** # Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of # this file. # ********************************************************************** Section "Files" # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. FontPath "unix/:-1" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" #DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort) AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse doesn't work #DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching) EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension Load "v4l" # Video for Linux Load "extmod" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "glx" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard1" Driver "Keyboard" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "en_US" Option "XkbOptions" "" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "monitor1" VendorName "Generic" ModelName "1024x768 @ 70 Hz" HorizSync 31.5-57.0 VertRefresh 50-70 # Sony Vaio C1(X,XS,VE,VN)? # 1024x480 @ 85.6 Hz, 48 kHz hsync ModeLine "1024x480" 65.00 1024 1032 1176 1344 480 488 494 563 -hsync -vsync # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output. # 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync ModeLine "768x576" 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630 # 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync ModeLine "768x576" 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "device1" VendorName "NVidia" BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic)" Driver "nvidia" Option "NvAGP" "3" Option "DPMS" Option "IgnoreEDID" "1" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "screen1" Device "device1" Monitor "monitor1" DefaultColorDepth 24 Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Virtual 1024 768 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 15 Virtual 1024 768 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Virtual 1024 768 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Virtual 1024 768 EndSubsection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "layout1" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" Screen "screen1" EndSection Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeeDubb Posted July 19, 2004 Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 That seems okay unless I'm missing something. What version of the nvida driver are you using, and how did you install it? You should be using the binary installer from http://www.nvidia.com NOT any of the damn rpms that are out there. And of course, it's always possible that there was a problem durring the instalation. Have you tried re-isntalling the driver? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Kenneth Posted July 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 That seems okay unless I'm missing something. What version of the nvida driver are you using, and how did you install it? You should be using the binary installer from http://www.nvidia.com NOT any of the damn rpms that are out there. And of course, it's always possible that there was a problem durring the instalation. Have you tried re-isntalling the driver? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes, I'm using latest, yes, I used binary. And yes, I reinstalled a lot of times! There should be no reason why ZSNES starts sucking all my CPU power the second I hover my mouse over its window... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Kenneth Posted July 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 Actually, same thing happens with ZSNES when I don't even have the drivers installed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted July 19, 2004 Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 is it only znes or is it 'really' other stuff.... that is NWN/Americas army etc. are they really worse than whatever metric you use... what glxgears frame rate do you get ? I tried UT and its quite intensive... and sucks up CPU ?? so im just wondering if say znes has a real prob but the others are half expectation... reason I say this is you prolly dont wanna waste time and hack about on the driver unless your sure its the driver...not the settings in znes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Kenneth Posted July 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 I found out what the problem was after trying stuff in other desktop environments. The problem was the sysinfo gdesklet which polls your cpu usage, ram, etc... Golly. What a silly problem. At least it's fixed. And I'm happy. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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