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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: enjoijeff on 18 March 2004, 00:21

Title: Just my computer?
Post by: enjoijeff on 18 March 2004, 00:21
Has anyone experienced lagginess in Mandrake 9.2? I was running that and games were so bad and ran very choppy. So I was like okay... and I decided to install Fedora Core (Yarrow) and it ran games perfect without any choppiness. It was just a bit slower with installing than Mandrake was. That was the only thing that it was slow with.

For example: Tuxracer when I played that on Mandrake it would run very slow and was super choppy when you were turning. On Fedora it runs nice.
Title: Just my computer?
Post by: SAJChurchey on 19 March 2004, 01:17
It may depend on your processor.  I think Mandrake is mostly optimized for the Pentium processors.  While RedHat has Athlon and other builds as well.
Title: Just my computer?
Post by: preacher on 19 March 2004, 02:35
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Originally posted by enjoijeff:
Has anyone experienced lagginess in Mandrake 9.2? I was running that and games were so bad and ran very choppy. So I was like okay... and I decided to install Fedora Core (Yarrow) and it ran games perfect without any choppiness. It was just a bit slower with installing than Mandrake was. That was the only thing that it was slow with.

For example: Tuxracer when I played that on Mandrake it would run very slow and was super choppy when you were turning. On Fedora it runs nice.



I have Mandrake 9.2 installed on my 200mhz with a geforce2 mx200. Tuxracer and bzflag play perfectly smooth. The nvidia drivers are very good.

Here is a question for you. Are you using mesa? I found mesa to be very slow. If you have an Nvidia video card, be sure to use the nvidia drivers and change your XF86Config-4 file.