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Raniz
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 Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 4:57 pm Post subject: Really low fps in UT2003 |
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FPS in UT2003 are about 1/5 of what I have in windows with D3D (15-20 in lin and 80-100 in win) with the same display and detail settings.
glxinfo reports that I have Direct Rendering and that I'm using ATI GLX and OpenGL.
I have a Radeon 9500Pro, running kernel 2.6.1-love5 and ati-drivers 3.7.0 (no difference with 3.2.
Is there any solution to this? |
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mrgamer
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| Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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yes, 2 solutions:
1 - reinstall 3.2.8 drivers for better performance
2 - wait for a better release of ati-drivers
i've the same damned problem too --> win 114fps --> gentoo 3.2.8 74fps ^^
there is no solution by now  |
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charlieg
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| Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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You have a slight drop, mrgamer, not the massive cut that the OP has.
Raniz: did you follow the Gentoo Docs to the letter on how to set up your desktop for 3d acceleration?
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Raniz
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| Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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| charlieg wrote: | You have a slight drop, mrgamer, not the massive cut that the OP has.
Raniz: did you follow the Gentoo Docs to the letter on how to set up your desktop for 3d acceleration? |
Nope... I didn't even know there were any docs for that... I'll try that and see if it helps! |
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charlieg
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| Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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| mrgamer wrote: | yes, 2 solutions:
1 - reinstall 3.2.8 drivers for better performance
2 - wait for a better release of ati-drivers
i've the same damned problem too --> win 114fps --> gentoo 3.2.8 74fps ^^
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Btw, mrgamer, have you tried setting your colordepth to 16bits? Often it's at 24bits or 32bits which - for some bizarre reason - doesn't work as well as 16 (or in some cases the other way around iirc?) so you might want to try tinkering with that in your Xfree config file.
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Wedge_
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The ATI driver doesn't actually support 16 bit color, so you have to use 24 bit mode in your XF86Config. You can change from 16 to 32 bit while in UT2K3, but whether it actually makes any difference I don't know.
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Raniz
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| Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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I've tried the guide now, and no change...
I used the DRM in the kernel instead of xfree-drm, because xfree-drm didn't support 2.6.x kernels yet... |
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Mongrol
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Try turning vsync off in your UT2003.ini (and XF86Config). I've seen it locking to very low rates when on.
P.S. ut2003.ini is vsync=TRUE to turn it off (don't ask). |
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Raniz
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| Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Mongrol wrote: | Try turning vsync off in your UT2003.ini (and XF86Config). I've seen it locking to very low rates when on.
P.S. ut2003.ini is vsync=TRUE to turn it off (don't ask). |
Where in ut2003.ini should I enter that? Can't find anything with vsync in my ut2003.ini... |
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Mongrol
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| Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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In the [D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice] section.
UseVSync=True
Unix Caps strikes again! |
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-ravage-
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| Mongrol wrote: | In the [D3DDrv.D3DRenderDevice] section.
UseVSync=True
Unix Caps strikes again! |
why would you edit an option for the Direct 3D renderer?  |
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Mongrol
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| Good question and I have no idea. I`ll have a look when I get home. Looks like I`m not paying attention and their is another VSync setting further down. |
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Mongrol
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| Nope, I`m right. That's the only settings and it makes a difference here. |
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-ravage-
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| Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 5:24 am Post subject: |
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| Mongrol wrote: | | Nope, I`m right. That's the only settings and it makes a difference here. |
sure, whatever, you keep thinking that |
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