Jerky graphics

[leedude]

I have just noticed, that when i am playing games like bzflag that use 3d acceleration, the cpu usage jumps to about 100% and the game jerks every few seconds. the same happens with glxgears, except without jerking. i look down the process list, and there is nothing taking up more than 20%. I also notice this with glx screensavers, and the same cpu usage thing happens. I am using a chaintech geforce 6800 128 meg card. i never had this problem before. i believe it started when i upgraded the nvidia drivers. I have done a "glxinfo | grep rendering", and that gives a yes for direct rendering. i have an amd athlon 64 3700+ and i am on FC6.

Please Help.

[leedude]

I have noticed something else. After stopping bzflag. i still have 100% cpu usage, and still no idea where it is being used.

[Seve]

Hello:
Are there any errors etc, in your Xorg.0.log that might provide some clues?

Seve

[leedude]

nope, no ee's but i have reinstalled kmod-nvidia, and i havent had the problem since.