Radeon 200M Slow

[xxrealmsxx]

I am finally migrating to Ubuntu (except for xp so i can use office for school) and I was wondering if there is a fix for the crappy performance of the radeon 200m card in open gl.

I installed ut2004 and get a whopping 10 fps and was hoping someone could help me figure this out.

[Shatrat]

I have the same chipset in this laptop and I don't think there is much to be done.
The hardware is very weak compared to most current graphics chips and the fglrx drivers are definitely not the best.

I don't think there is much that can be done to increase the performance on these.

[lotacus]

uh, does not the "200M" give you any hints? spend the 120 bux and get a half decent card. Espeically if trying to play UT.
If your using a laptop disregard this ,but it's stil gay unless you have an alienware. :)

[Frem]

Part of the problem might be this: http://fixthe200m.wordpress.com/
The other part is just that it's not a not-great card with an even less great driver. Yeah, I know. >_<

For UT2004, just turn everything down really low. It will look really bad, but it's playable.

[DerArzt]

fglrx seem to me to be much faster. The only problem for me was I couldn't get them to run stably. i would always get hard locks. the 8.33 drivers are, however, working well for me. i have had zero hard locks since ive had them installed (something over a week), and with previous drivers it would take less than a day to hard lock. If you want to try it, http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Edgy_Installation_Guide. Use Method 2 for the 8.33 drivers.

[thx_1138]

This card just outright sucks regardless of drivers or model number. the fglrx drivers at least give you tolerable 3d support but its nothing to get excited about by any means. I have to deal with two of them (one on my laptop and one on my gf laptop whom I got switched over to linux). They definitely are'nt intended for a gamer, I would recommend a better laptop since its not too common for laptops to have replaceable video cards.. although I thought ati and nvidia where trying to work on changing that.... oh well. I run a Geforce 6200 on my desktop machine and the driver support is light years better, I get pretty solid performance on most of the games I have played under linux (native games.... no emulation) (quake4, nwn, serious sam2, darwinia). Nvidia definitely rules the video card market in linux