Tremulous Forum
General => Troubleshooting => Topic started by: Octal on November 26, 2007, 09:16:38 pm
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Hi guys. I post here cause I have a huge problem with my tremulous client. Indeed, I have some FPS Problems since few weeks. When I am playing, my fps are dropping to 1 or 2 without any reason. During 10seconds, my fps are to 0, 1 or 2. And then, my system (Debian with KDE) completely freezes. I verified with glxinfo :
octal@debian:~$ glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
<...>
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Radeon Xpress Series
OpenGL version string: 2.0.6747 (8.40.4)
I don't know how to repair it and I am very bored of this problem.
So, can someone help me ?
Thanks to you.
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What's your video card and what other driver versions have you tried?
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what's your fps in glxgears?
is this problem only related to trem ?
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Hi Guys. First, thanks to you for trying to help me.
Concerning my graphic card, it is a :
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)
This problem only happens when I start to play Tremulous. Otherwise, when I'm doing everything else, I get no problem like this.
It is a little bit strange because it was working before.
Thanks to you.
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Go here and get 8.28.8 as that was afaik the last version that gave complete 3d-support for your castrated X300.
http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux/radeonprevious-linux.html
It might not help much, but it's better than nothing.
Anyhows, you might want to say bye-bye to the idea that playing on a cheapo notebook is a good idea....
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Interesting. I have an old laptop with a Radeon card in it.The card is an IGP 320M and as such relies only on software acceleration for openGL.
Ive found that there are some options you can stick in xorg.conf to get some extra performance.
take a back up of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf like this:
sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup
then go ahead and do something like
sudo pico /etc/X11/xorg.conf
To open the file in your favorite text editor.
(you can change pico to gedit or kate or whatever you want)
have a look at these option lines that ive added. Dont worry about the identifier but the driver should probably be radeon, not ati.
Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Driver "radeon"
Option "DPMS" "true"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "1"
Option "ColorTiling" "On"
Option "EnablePageFlip" "On"
Option "AGPMode" "4"
Option "UseFBDev" "true"
Option "AGPFastWrite" "On"
Option "DRI" "On"
EndSection
You could try these options and see what happens. If something borks you'll get a readout of what it was and maybe remove the offending option and try again.
make sure you have this:
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSectionat the end of the file
This section usually found near the beginning at least contains:
Section "Module"
Load "GLcore"
Load "dri"
Load "dbe"
Load "glx"
EndSection
For the changes to take effect press ctrl+Alt+backspace to restart X
Im not sure if any of that will help - at least know because you took a backup you can restore everything to how it was if it fucks up by going
sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Also there's some stuff here (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=310018&highlight=mobility+320m&page=3) which i dont know would be relevant or not, might push you in the right direction if the above reveals no leads.
All the best
Odd
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by the by. .. sorry for double post but you could just try running the game under XFCE instead of on top of all the bloat that KDE give you..
sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop (i think)
or maybe gnome
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sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
Sorry to say but that shit ain't in the DEBIAN repositories.
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gah.. my bad - its even easier on deb
aptitude install xfce4
aptitude install xfce4-goodies
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Ok Guys. Thanks to ODDity. Now it's better than before: I just get less FPS lags than before but I sometimes get some. I think that I am now going to upgrade my driver.
Thanks to ODDity and Caveman. I'll tell you the results ;).
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uhm.... don't upgrade the driver DOWNgrade it :)
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uhm.... don't upgrade the driver DOWNgrade it :)
Well, I tried the 8.28.8 version of the Driver but I have some problems. See :
octal@debian:~/Autres$ ./ati-driver-installer-8.28.8.run
Creating directory fglrx-install
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing ATI Proprietary Linux Driver-8.28.8...
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ATI Technologies Linux Driver Installer/Packager
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Detected configuration:
Architecture: i686 (32-bit)
X Server: Xorg 1.3.0
Detected version of X does not have a matching 'x130' directory
You may override the detected version using the following syntax:
X_VERSION=<xdir> ./ati-driver-installer-<ver>-<arch>.run [--install]
The following values may be used for <xdir>:
x430 XFree86 4.3.x
x430_64a XFree86 4.3.x 64-bit
x680 X.Org 6.8.x
x680_64a X.Org 6.8.x 64-bit
x690 X.Org 6.9.x
x690_64a X.Org 6.9.x 64-bit
x700 X.Org 7.0.x
x700_64a X.Org 7.0.x 64-bit
x710 Unknown X Window
x710_64a Unknown X Window
Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install
My Xorg :
octal@debian:~/Autres$ aptitude show xorg
Paquet : xorg
État: installé
Automatiquement installé: oui
Version : 1:7.3+2
Priorité : optionnel
Section : x11
Responsable : Debian X Strike Force <debian-x@lists.debian.org>
Taille décompressée : 49,2k
Dépend: xserver-xorg, libgl1-mesa-glx | libgl1, libglu1-mesa, xfonts-base (>= 1:1.0.0-1), xfonts-100dpi (>= 1:1.0.0-1),
xfonts-75dpi (>= 1:1.0.0-1), xfonts-scalable (>= 1:1.0.0-1), xbase-clients (>= 1:1.0.1-1), xutils (>= 1:1.0.1-1),
xkb-data, xterm | x-terminal-emulator, sparc-utils | not+sparc
Recommande: xorg-docs
Fournit: x-window-system, x-window-system-core
Even if I override the X_VERSION like they say, I am getting an installation error. What to do ?
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Sorry, I can't help you there, except to recommend to buy a gfx-card that actually has some real support.
But before you dish more money, how about you have a look the forums over at ati's or use google on a howto?