Unplayable framerate

[torturedutopian]

Ah, my friend finally managed to play it properly and is very happy :-)

I don't know why, he didn't have access to the 640x480 resolution and the game was too slow above it. (also, he uses twinview) He said the "nvidia x server settings" utility only allowed the maximum resolution, so he had to modify his xorg.conf.

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "1"
Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
Option "metamodes" "CRT-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, CRT-1: nvidia-auto-select +1280+0; CRT-0: 800x600 +0+0, CRT-1: NULL; CRT-0: 640x480 +0+0, CRT-1: NULL"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

NULL : to disable the 2nd monitor, otherwise the game is played on both screens.

So he managed to play it in a *smooth* way, with a good details level, in 640*480 (on one screen)

Well, I don't really know why he had to tweak that manually, that's strange. Maybe the 6xxx GPU is not that well supported now and doesn't benefit from up-to-date configuration utilities... Nowadays, xorg.conf files are not necessary usually... Except for this nvidia proprietary driver (which is pretty good apart from that and apart from the fact it gives a wrong vertical frequency to identify the twinview modes)

Anyway : yes, you can play the game with a GF 6200 + P4 processor. It sucks he had to modify xorg.conf though, nvidia should work with X.org to make things easier :-)