Games are SLOW!

[DeathONator]

Running mandrake 9.0 on a Radeon 7500 and 2100+ @ 2100mhz. TuxRacer is slow, cannon smash is very slow unless I play w/ simple graphics, along w/ every other 3dgame I've tried. What's up? Do I needa install some better GPU drivers? where can I find some?

 

[fiji]

don't use gnome/kde??

that right there will take up 100MB+ of ram

use the xinit command




and not to mention the ATI linux drivers are pretty much 95% dog poopoo

 

[DeathONator]

Yeah, i'm using KDE right now. When I used the xinit command I got a server error. What is it suppose to do close KDE? Then what will I be left w/ ?

Are there any better ATI linux drivers out there?

 

[Cowboy Shane]

Is that 7500 PCI or AGP?

Edit: Also, do you have load dri and load glx in the modules section of your XF86Config-4 file, and is your driver set to "radeon" in the video section of that file? (the file is in /etc/X11/ if you were wondering)

 

[comfortablynumb]

and not to mention the ATI linux drivers are pretty much 95% dog poopoo

That pretty much sums it up I'm afraid..........

CN

 

[DeathONator]

It's AGP. And I seem to have all that you listed in that XF86config-4 file:

Section "Device"
    Identifier "device1"
    VendorName "ATI"
    BoardName "ATI Radeon"
    Driver "radeon"
    Option "DPMS"
    Option "AGPMode" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier "device1"
    VendorName "ATI"
    BoardName "ATI Radeon"
    Driver "radeon"
    Option "DPMS"
    Option "AGPMode" "true"
EndSection

EDIT: Not one decent ATI driver out there? No 3rd parties?

 

[comfortablynumb]

AFAIK, no 3rd party drivers for the 7500....
Try asking here and here.

Sorry I can't help more, I chose Nvidia cards for just this reason.....

CN

 

[Cowboy Shane]

I don't know if any of this will help, but I found this DRI troubleshooting guide.

 

[fiji]

for the xinit

you close kde// turn off whatever WM you got going

then from CL you type xinit /path/to/binary/orsymlink