[ut2004] Help? 64 bit linux client and poor fps.

[Clint Goudie-Nice]

cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status
Status:          Enabled
Driver:          AGPGART
AGP Rate:        8x
Fast Writes:     Disabled
SBA:             Enabled

Interesting, it says I have fast writes disabled, but I just rebooted
and the bios says I have them enabled... How do I enable them, and will
it actually net a performance boost with ut?

also

cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/card
Fast Writes:     Supported
SBA:             Supported
AGP Rates:       8x 4x
Registers:       0x1f000e1b:0x1f000302

cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/host-bridge
Host Bridge:     PCI device 1106:3188
Fast Writes:     Supported
SBA:             Supported
AGP Rates:       8x 4x
Registers:       0x1f000a1b:0x00000b02


On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 16:01 -0500, augustus at linuxhardware.org wrote:
> Does your output of this command look anything like this?
> 
> augustus at glacier ~ $ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status
> Status:          Enabled
> Driver:          AGPGART
> AGP Rate:        8x
> Fast Writes:     Enabled
> SBA:             Enabled
> 
> Kris Kersey (Augustus)
> LinuxHardware.org Site Manager
> augustus at linuxhardware.org
> Gentoo Linux AMD64 Developer
> augustus at gentoo.org
> 
> On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Clint Goudie-Nice wrote:
> 
> > Greetings all, I'm wondering if ya-all can help me out with my fps on my
> > client.
> >
> > Looking over large complex scenes causes huge drops in fps, down into
> > the teens on my Geforce 5950 ultra. The odd thing is, turning down my
> > settings from high/highest to normal and turning off all the checkboxes
> > in the video tab and decreasing the fog distance, and there is no
> > noticeable change in fps.
> >
> > Also, oddly, changing from 32 to 16 bit and reducing the video
> > resolution tends to _decrease_ my fps, and decreasing video resolution
> > decreases fps.
> >
> > It's almost like the pipeline to the video card has been limited...
> >
> > I've played with tons of the settings in my user's UT2004.ini to no
> > avail.
> >
> > I'm fairly convinced that the DesiredRefreshRate= setting in the opengl
> > section is broken, as it doesn't seem to have any effect.
> >
> > These same scenes are zippy in 32bit windows.. :(
> >
> > Is there anyone out there who has found some magic setting that speeds
> > things up?
> >
> > This was with Fedora Core 3 x86_64, (IE: 2.6.9 kernel), the latest
> > nvidia drivers (1.0-6629), a 256mb Geforce 5950 Ultra, and 1gb of
> > physical ram.
> >
> > Clint
> >