Do these things make a noticeable difference?

[jtk]

AGPGART vs. NvGart... any difference there? Seems like a lot of trouble to get the nVidia driver going.

AGP Fast Write... how about this one? My BIOS only has settings for either Disabled or Automatic, and in Ubuntu it's off.

Thanks!

[leech]

I think it all depends on your motherboard and the nVidia card you're using. In windows, certain driver sets cause problems with Fast Writes on, but I've never had the issue in Linux (and only slightly in windows.)

I know with windows it doesn't matter if Fast Writes are off in the Bios, it turns them on for you anyhow, and you have to use Riva Tuner....

The better question is, are you having any performance problems? If you look at your hardware and then see someone who has hardware that is close, then see how well a certain game runs on theirs and if it's running close to that on yours, then I wouldn't worry about all the fast writes, ro nvgart etc.

Leech

[jtk]

Well, after playing for a week or so, I'm definitely having performance problems.

I have:

AMD 3500+
1gb RAM
nVidia 6800GT/256mb
Gigabyte K8 Triton mobo

and at 1280x1024 resolution, with most things in UT2004 set at "Normal", I average approximately 25 fps. I'm going to try some tweaking, but I'm about ready to break down and go back to Windows for gaming (I use a Mac for everything else except at work). This setup should produce much higher fps... 25 is about what I got with my old 9800 Pro.

[siorai]

Well, after playing for a week or so, I'm definitely having performance problems.

I have:

AMD 3500+
1gb RAM
nVidia 6800GT/256mb
Gigabyte K8 Triton mobo

and at 1280x1024 resolution, with most things in UT2004 set at "Normal", I average approximately 25 fps. I'm going to try some tweaking, but I'm about ready to break down and go back to Windows for gaming (I use a Mac for everything else except at work). This setup should produce much higher fps... 25 is about what I got with my old 9800 Pro.

You should definitely be getting way higher. At 1680x1050 I'm getting an average of about 75 - 85fps with my 6800 non-ultra, P4 3.0, 1GB pc4000 with all settings at max in-game. Do you have AA and AF at max with v-sync on maybe?

[handy]

You've got some kind'a problem, I'm running with everything turned on to the max, in Setup at 1600x1200 24bit, faster than windoze for sure. Online or off...

[jtk]

AA and AF are set to off, but something may be overriding them or something. I set it in nvidia-settings to override app settings and stay off. I may need to investigate that some more though. Not sure about v-sync... I need to investigate that too.

Hopefully this will be something relatively easy to figure out... I wanna play, not tweak...

[TheForumTroll]

You should definitely be getting way higher. At 1680x1050 I'm getting an average of about 75 - 85fps with my 6800 non-ultra, P4 3.0, 1GB pc4000 with all settings at max in-game. Do you have AA and AF at max with v-sync on maybe?

Only way vertical sync can lower your fps is if you got more fps than your monitors hz. So if that should be the reason to his 25 fps his monitor had to run in 25hz :rolleyes: