UT2004: Will performance go well?

**odbod** · May 2nd, 2006

A while ago, I had ubuntu installed and attempted to play ut2004 without successs. That was with the ATI drivers. I got new hardware with PCI-e..

-Abit Board (model will be posted later, not at home)
-Intel Pentium 4 HT @ 3 ghz (3040 MHz according to bios)
-nVidia GeForce 7300 GS (3d fuzion make) 256 mb PCIe 16x
-120 gb hard drive

So now, two questions would come up.. The first one would be:

Do the drivers from nVidia work with my card? I was looking around and I saw that it doesn't work, and certain drivers will work with it(as told that someone used a different distro and it worked perfectly fine!). This brings it to the 2nd question if needed. :So, if the drivers off the nvidia site don't work, would I have to get the drivers from "3D fuzion"?

**Perfect Storm** · May 2nd, 2006

Well, I think you need to install the nvidia driver from nividia.com than the default that comes with breezy if the card is very new.
When successed with driver install you should get an amazing performance for UT2004 (I'll do that with my GF 6600 GT 256 mb)

**professor_chaos** · May 3rd, 2006

I'm very pleased with the performance on my nvidia geforce fx 5700 ve.
I used the drivers from nvidias website.

**odbod** · May 3rd, 2006

Well, I'm confused though. I was reading something that someone had my exact card, and Breezy didn't like it, and the drivers on the distro wouldn't work, or from the site. And another linux distro worked wiht it perfectly.. What version of the drivers are you two using? The latest? or.....

**handy** · May 4th, 2006

Originally Posted by odbod

Well, I'm confused though. I was reading something that someone had my exact card, and Breezy didn't like it, and the drivers on the distro wouldn't work, or from the site. And another linux distro worked wiht it perfectly.. What version of the drivers are you two using? The latest? or.....

I suggest that you install Automatix, which gives you over 40 options to choose what you will have it download & install for you!!!

One of the options is the latest nVidia drivers.

Automatix works like a dream.

[EDIT:]

I have installed it on both 64 & 32 bit systems without any troubles at all!!

**MetalMusicAddict** · May 4th, 2006

Ive had great success with Doom3, Quake4 and UT2004 with my nVidia 6800 and Ubuntu. Id go for Dapper though. Ive had no major problems for awhile now.

I plan on building a new pc when UT2007 hits.

**handy** · May 4th, 2006

I have no problems at all with breezy, so I won't be moving to dapper untill i stop hearing about all the problems that people are having with dapper!!

**odbod** · May 4th, 2006

Well.. That auto thing sounds like a good idea... So, now, I gotta find my other hard drive so I can install ubuntu.

(I just don't want to put ubuntu on a 30 gb part of a 120 gb hard drive(50% is taken up)

**odbod** · May 5th, 2006

Originally Posted by handy

I suggest that you install Auromatix, which gives you over 40 options to choose what you will have it download & install for you!!!

One of the options is the latest nVidia drivers.

Automatix works like a dream.

[EDIT:]

I have installed it on both 64 & 32 bit systems without any troubles at all!!

Thank you so much for giving me that info!!! That will help a lot!

**leech** · May 5th, 2006

I've had Dapper running awesomely for quite some time. Now on the other hand I just recently had to re-install on my laptop, and while standard Dapper runs well enough, I added the XGL/Compiz stuff to it and that stuff is pretty bugged still, but damn does it look cool

Unreal Tournament screams on my system under Linux (AMD64 3200+, 3GB Ram, 6800GT)

Leech