Okay, so I've been using Kubuntu for a bit now, and enjoying it immensely (Especially with the improvements of KDE 4.1). However, I'm still running into problems running games and applications, usually graphically intensive ones, though sometimes just simple programs, like Ktorrent and such. I have no idea what's wrong, or where to start, really.
First, my system specs:
2.2ghz dual-core processor
2 gigs of memory
GeForce 7400 Go card
A large, large amount of unused hard drive space which, if I remember correctly, 2 gigs of which is devoted to cache.
Edit: As far as I know, I have nvidia-glx installed, as well as the config utility.
Now, the problems:
First, for games. For games, whether run natively in Linux or through Wine, start out "adequately", meaning I usually get 30 or so fps. This is strange, because the games I'm running aren't exactly Oblivion. Instead, I'm playing around with Second Life or so. In Windows, I would get 60-70 fps easily with these games. However, 30fps is acceptable for play, so that's what I go with. However, over the course of 5 or so minutes, the fps ALWAYS crunches down to 6-9 fps. Or lower. It almost seems like a memory leak, except that my computer doesn't go into death throes, and I can abandon the application. After, it takes about 2-3 minutes for my computer to get back up to speed, and act normally.
Second, varying applications just destroy my memory usage, and I have no idea why. I mean, Ktorrent isn't exactly the pinnacle of graphical achievement, yet when I monitor it via Sysguard, it will randomly eat up 40% or so of my memory. Firefox does the same thing, though that's a little more understandable. During these times, my computer will all but lock up.
Anyone have any ideas what's going on?
PS. I'm also have a problem reading some PDFs. They're there, I've read them before, and they take up the same amount of space. But when I open them with okular, or kpdf, or whatever, they just come up blank.
First, my system specs:
2.2ghz dual-core processor
2 gigs of memory
GeForce 7400 Go card
A large, large amount of unused hard drive space which, if I remember correctly, 2 gigs of which is devoted to cache.
Edit: As far as I know, I have nvidia-glx installed, as well as the config utility.
Now, the problems:
First, for games. For games, whether run natively in Linux or through Wine, start out "adequately", meaning I usually get 30 or so fps. This is strange, because the games I'm running aren't exactly Oblivion. Instead, I'm playing around with Second Life or so. In Windows, I would get 60-70 fps easily with these games. However, 30fps is acceptable for play, so that's what I go with. However, over the course of 5 or so minutes, the fps ALWAYS crunches down to 6-9 fps. Or lower. It almost seems like a memory leak, except that my computer doesn't go into death throes, and I can abandon the application. After, it takes about 2-3 minutes for my computer to get back up to speed, and act normally.
Second, varying applications just destroy my memory usage, and I have no idea why. I mean, Ktorrent isn't exactly the pinnacle of graphical achievement, yet when I monitor it via Sysguard, it will randomly eat up 40% or so of my memory. Firefox does the same thing, though that's a little more understandable. During these times, my computer will all but lock up.
Anyone have any ideas what's going on?
PS. I'm also have a problem reading some PDFs. They're there, I've read them before, and they take up the same amount of space. But when I open them with okular, or kpdf, or whatever, they just come up blank.
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