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General => Troubleshooting => Topic started by: NoSpin on November 13, 2006, 02:44:49 am

Title: Tremulous Running Slow
Post by: NoSpin on November 13, 2006, 02:44:49 am

I have been playing trem for a while now without any problems on a Windows Machine.

Recently I formatted and installed Kubuntu, a Linux distro. I installed trem and now the game runs ridiculously slow. Not just when I am playing the game but even on the menu screen the mouse is lagging.

Any Ideas?

Brett

Title: Tremulous Running Slow
Post by: kevlarman on November 13, 2006, 03:35:07 am

install nvidia/ati drivers, most video cards don't open source drivers that support 3d acceleration, and ubuntu refuses to package proprietary drivers by default (for good reason).

Title: Tremulous Running Slow
Post by: NoSpin on November 15, 2006, 04:57:53 pm

Where can i get these drivers at?

Title: Tremulous Running Slow
Post by: kevlarman on November 15, 2006, 05:27:38 pm

Quote from: "NoSpin"

Where can i get these drivers at?

enable the multiverse repository, then install the package nvidia-glx if you have an nvidia card, fglrx if you have an ati card (then you might have to edit xorg.conf to change the driver, i can't remember if the packages do it automatically)

Title: Tremulous Running Slow
Post by: NoSpin on November 15, 2006, 05:55:36 pm

Sorry to ask for everything to be spelled out.. i am new to linux... but how do you mod the xorg.conf file? what do i change?

Title: Tremulous Running Slow
Post by: kevlarman on November 15, 2006, 06:31:12 pm

Quote from: "NoSpin"

Sorry to ask for everything to be spelled out.. i am new to linux... but how do you mod the xorg.conf file? what do i change?

well, first you would have to tell us what your video card is, the fact that i hinted at it like 5 times seems to have escaped you.

Title: Tremulous Running Slow
Post by: NoSpin on November 15, 2006, 06:43:26 pm

:-) yes i didn't realize. ATI video card.

Brett

Title: Tremulous Running Slow
Post by: kevlarman on November 15, 2006, 07:02:18 pm

since you'll probably have problems fixing it if you break xorg.conf, first make sure the package didn't do it already. restart X (ctrl-alt-backspace), then run

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glxinfo|grep direct in a terminal, and post the output here.

Title: Tremulous Running Slow
Post by: NoSpin on November 16, 2006, 12:17:13 am

Unable to open display (NULL)

Also btw i have been messing with my system quite a bit. And at the moment tremulous does not run at all. It starts to load but then crashes without error. I see trem on the taskbar trying to load but i never see any of the screens.

Title: Tremulous Running Slow
Post by: kevlarman on November 16, 2006, 12:54:26 am

Quote from: "NoSpin"

Unable to open display (NULL)

Also btw i have been messing with my system quite a bit. And at the moment tremulous does not run at all. It starts to load but then crashes without error. I see trem on the taskbar trying to load but i never see any of the screens.

don't run it from a virtual terminal, you need to run it from a terminal emulator (like konsole) to make it work.

Title: Tremulous Running Slow
Post by: NoSpin on November 16, 2006, 01:10:02 am

direct rendering: No
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect



Another note. I recently installed Automatrix and now the game will load like before but is running super slow

Title: Tremulous Running Slow
Post by: NoSpin on November 16, 2006, 04:31:44 am

I figured it out.. The 3d software was not properly installed

Thanks