[ut2004] Unplayable game after update kernel, Problem Solved.

Joel Wiramu Pauling aenertia at aenertia.net
Thu Jul 8 20:01:29 EDT 2004


GLX Gears IS NOT A BENCHMARK!!!. 

I Only get 1500 Odd frames in GLX Gears, But UT2004 Plays at well over
50 FPS on my FX5600 @ 1024x768.

GLX is basically fill limited, Go google for a decent explanation why
GLX Gears FPS are stupid to rely on as a indication of Video
Performance.



On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 09:51, Nathan Van Eps wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I get way lower than that with glxgears (~6740), but my system is
> comparable.
> 
> Processor: dual Athlon MP 2800+
> Memory: 1.25 gig
> Video: BFG tech GeForce FX 5900XT 128meg with the 6106 drivers
> Kernel: 2.6.7
> Distro: Gentoo
> 
> [~]cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status
> Status:          Enabled
> Driver:          AGPGART
> AGP Rate:        4x
> Fast Writes:     Enabled
> SBA:             Enabled
> 
> Anybody have any ideas why I would get so much lower a score in
> glxgears? Unreal Tournament 2004 runs ok, but I'm always interested in
> push up the resolution and eye candy...
> 
> Thanks,
> Nathan
> 
> On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 15:07, stuartb at thelinuxlink.net wrote:
> > cat /proc/drivers/nvidia/agp/status/ showed disabled!
> > I had the option NvAGP set to 1. I commented it out and restarted X and I
> > get AGP =4x and using AGPGART. Too bad there isn't a better way to quickly
> > see this problem. glxgears now runs around 8900 instead of 5700.
> > I had used the nvidia supplied agpgart without trouble for so long I
> > forgot about it. If anyone else has trouble with new drivers, don't forget
> > to look at agp status!
> > I will send this info to the nvidia drivers forum
> > Stuart
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > >> stuartb at thelinuxlink.net wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>I had Ut2004 running well under Fedora Core2. I have a dual athlon MP
> > >>>system with a FX5900 and 1.75Gb ram and dual 10,000rpm drives in raid-0.
> > >>>Yesterday I updated the NVIDIA driver from 5336 to 6106, then went from
> > >>> my
> > >>>custom 2.6.7 kernel ( with 8k stacks) to the 2.6.6smp kernel from Fedora
> > >>>(4k stacks now supported by NVIDIA) Next I noted Fedora had new Xorg
> > >>> rpms
> > >>>on up2date so I installed them. I started X and glxgears was around
> > >>> 5800.
> > >>>I tried to play ut2004 and the startup was terrible and the splash of
> > >>>NVIDIA was jerky. I went to instant action and any map took forever to
> > >>>load.  I killed it from a console after 2 mins. I remember problems with
> > >>>MesaGL rpms and NVIDIA so I uninstalled Xorg-Mesa-LibGL rpm using
> > >>> --nodeps
> > >>>and reinstalled NVIDIA 6106.Same problem: tuxracer is ok glxgears is ok
> > >>>but jerky display of splash logo and any map under instant action
> > >>> doesn't
> > >>>load after several minutes. Here is some log info:
> > >>>All I see is a GL out of memory error in the ut2004 log.
> > >>>How can I correct this or help someone debug this?
> > >>>Stuart
> > >
> > > #####################cut log file stuff from original#################
> > >
> > >
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >> Did you take care of the tls libGL? I'm pretty sure you have a
> > >> /usr/X11R6/lib/tls/libGL.so.1.2 file (and symlink) there. Erase those
> > >> (keep the directory as some apps look for it) and try again. Usually
> > >> this is enough to get things running ;)
> > >>
> > > Yes. There are no files in the directory but the directory exists.
> > > Stuart
> > >
> > 
> 
> 
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