Neverball is too slow!

[donatell0]

I am trying to play one of my favourite linux games in ubuntu: Neverball. But it does not work properly. It is slow to the point of being unplayable even though I have set all the graphics settings to the lowest possible.

Though this problem seems to be similar to : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=476736, it is the not same as the solutions there do not work for me.

My hardware setup is way different: A Pentium 4 3 Ghz Desktop, with 512MB Ram, and an Onboard Graphics Card.
Any help is most welcome!

[mikedep333]

You probably do not have 3d hardware acceleration going. What is your exact graphics card? If there is a graphics driver available from the restricted drivers manager, you should install that.

[donatell0]

I dont have a dedicated graphics card. I think my graphics capability is onboard built in. The restricted drivers manager (in gutsy) says that I do not need any restricted drivers. If you need to know more about my computer, please say how I should find out too.

The line corresponding to graphics in the output of the command "lspci" is:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)

[Reijardmaister]

Enviroment:
I am running on a AMD Athlon type A ( 1 processor ), 1GB of ram and NVIDIA FX5200 well installed on Ubuntu 10.04 and all long term updates.
Problem:
I did not understand why the game Trembolous with better 3D graphics worked fine and Neverball worked slow. This made me very angry because I played a game like this in my old 486 with 8Mb of ram and worked really fast.
Solution:
Run your desktop in "Ubuntu Clasic no efects". Now it works fine in my 42" LCD - 1360x768

[overdrank]

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