My system is old and is running a Nvidia GeForce FX5200 graphics card. I am getting glxgears numbers in the range of 325-350 fps. I know this is not a true benchmarking program, but it is allowing me to try different setups to see if I can increase the fps rate. I also have a benchmarking program called gtkperf and it takes that 64.64 seconds to run 100 iterations of the test. In Ubuntu 7.10 I got glxgears speeds of 1300-1350 fps and gtkperf running in 36 seconds with the same equipment.

I am not running compiz, so I know that's not the problem.

Any help you could provide would be appreciated.

My xorg.conf file looks like so:
Code:
terminator@terminator-desktop:~$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings:  version 1.0  (buildd@vernadsky)  Thu Jun  5 09:26:53 UTC 2008


Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "GLcore"
    Load           "v4l"
    Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "ViewSonic VA703 SERIES"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 82.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 85.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Videocard0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce FX 5200"
    Option         "TripleBuffer" "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Videocard0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "NoLogo" "True"
    Option         "RenderAccel" "False"
    Option         "AllowIndirectPixmaps" "True"
    Option         "AddARGBVisuals" "True"
    Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
    Option         "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
    Option         "EnablePageFlip" "true"
    Option         "TwinView" "0"
    Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
    Option         "metamodes" "1280x1024 +0+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Group      "video"
    Mode       0660
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option         "Composite" "Enabled"
EndSection