>glxgears is giving me 500 fps, That sounds a bit slow to me. I think I get about 60,000 fps with my GeForce4. I don't think the GeForce2 is dramatically slower and glxgears doesn't use a lot of advanced features.
I will check when I get home. I'm curious about NWN too so if there's a demo for Linux I'd appreciate a pointer to it.. P.S. If you have an nvidia card, you should review www.nvnews.net once or twice a week as they have lots of NV & GL commentary. Tim Burgess