On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 08:42, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Just wondering, are there any general tweaks that can be done to 10.0 > (Powerpack, official boxed set) to up the performance a bit? Especially with > games. I've got it installed on my sons computer and games are definitely > much slower than v9.2 installed on the same hardware: > > Soyo MB - 256 megs PC2100 DDR ram > 1.3 Duron CPU > 80 gig 7200rpm Maxtor HD > Nvidia Geforce2 - 32 megs > > He's got the stock 2.6.xxx kernel, running KDE, with all updates from Mandrake > applied. > > It doesn't matter whether or not its a Linux native game (Tribes2, Rune, etc) > or a Winex (3.x or Cedega) game like Starcraft. All are noticeably slower. > Starcraft is almost unplayable across the LAN. > > Any help,hints or tips would be greatly appreciated!
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