video card (nvida) problem

[guitarfella]

i think i have a problem with my video card. these problems are occuring on my system that make me suspect its my video card.

im running mandrake v9

when i certain games like Tuxracer or Cannon Smash they run really, really slow like 1 fps.
Other games like Chromium wont even execute. Btw, im simply using the shortcuts in the KDE menu to run them.

Also, I have installed Ogle and when I start to play a DVD I can get the first 5 seconds (with inverted colours btw) then the program just dies.

What is all this pointing to? Does anyone have any ideas why all these things are happening? thanks.

[hlrguy]

To get chromium to run, I had to increase my screen resolution to 24M colors. As luck would have it I was working at compiling the source with optimizations so that it would run faster, like you, it was slow out of the box and I have a 2.5 Gig processor. Anyway, disabling all unneded options with

chromium -v 0 -na -nb -nt

and setting to low detail has increased my screen refresh rate from 3-4 frames/sec to about 40 fps. Almost to the desired 60. Also, I see that it is in debug mode, putting output to STDOUT when running. I am working to disable that. I will let you know. Tuxracer will be next. I had it running smooth on a slower machine in Redhat 7.0. For that one, though, I did the compile from .tgz. I may have to do that again if chromium won't come up to snuff. The one drawback to packaged RPMs, generic and unoptimized.

hlrguy

[mdwatts]

Are you using the default nvidia driver (nv) included with X or the nvidia specific drivers downloaded and installed from www.nvidia.com ?