Opengl & tuxracer, cromium [solved]

[Damnation]

basically i have a nvidia GeForce4 Ti 4800 SE

its about a year old or so in my comp, as to its real age i dunno.

but when i play those games it sucks i mean i have never seen my computer run so badly.

its very laggy, slow to respond, and basically unplayable, i try the mesa demos they work fine, i tried to compile tuxracer but it moans about ghx or somthing like that being to early although i got the lastest and compiled it myself.

 

i am just wondering basically.

is it mandrake 10.1

or my graphics card?

 

if so could u advise me as to what card i should get.

my pc is a dell 4550 at the end of this year i will be building my own,

i want a nvidia card i prefer them, so if anyone could suggest one thats below £200 thats better than the one i have now and works fine with opengl games.

please let me know

 

[moved from Software by spinynorman]

[polemicz]

Have you installed the nvidia drivers? If not there are plenty of posts here with info on how to do it.

[VeeDubb]

The GF4 ti series is great. You problem is the default driver.

 

Let me guess. YOu installed mandrake, but you haven't installed the drivers for that video card.

 

if you're confident with linux, just head to www.nvidia.com

 

If not, take a look around these boards and find instructions for isntalling nvidia drivers. I'd normaly post the instructions, but there's already better instructions than I could manage posted al over these boards.

[Damnation]

you know what that could be it, i've had problems with mandrake etc, (my fault) or i downloaded kde 3.4 from thacs site and its gone foobar etc.

and i guess this time (staying with 3.2) i forgot to install the drivers i'll go do that now and get back to u.

if this sorts the problem i'll be happy, as it saves about £200 till end of the year.

[Damnation]

i feel like a fool now, installed the drivers and bam it worked fine,

saves me some cash : o)

 

 

thanx i'll note that somewhere for future use.