Quake 4 unplayable with FC6

[Gilboa Davara]

On Mon, 2006-12-25 at 21:37 +0000, Andy Campbell wrote:
> I played Quake 4 on FC5 quite happily  20+ FPS @1600x1200,
> now under FC6 I'm lucky if I can get above 10FPS.
> 
> Details ...
> 
> + FC6 64bit
> + Nvidia GeForce 7800 GS
> +  AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+
> + xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.9631-1.lvn6
> + Fresh install of FC6, I've still got FC5 on a different partition
>     if you need any details.
> + FC5 was a 32bit install
> + I've turned Desktop effects off
> + glxgears gives ~4200FPS
> 
> 
> I've tried reducing the resolution to 1280x1024 - its not much better.
> 
> I've also noticed text and the pointer don't seem to get rendered 
> properly now
> either - which make it look the driver to me.
> 
> 
> Anyone had similar issues ?  I'm trying to decide if its the 9xxx 
> drivers - not that easy to
> try the 8xxx drivers as they don't exist in livna for the current 
> kernels, and the there are
> the warnings of the potential problems with the NVidia installer and 
> Fedora.  Or perhaps its
> because I decided to try 64bit Fedora this time - not convinced.  Or 
> something else ?
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Andy
> 

I have a similar machine - and both Quake 4 and Doom3 works just fine.
Dual Opteron 270, 2GB, GF6800GT, 88.xx/9x.xx drivers.

- Gilboa