I played Quake 4 on FC5 quite happily 20+ FPS @1600x1200, now under FC6 I'm lucky if I can get above 10FPS.
Details ...
+ FC6 64bit + Nvidia GeForce 7800 GS + AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+ + xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.9631-1.lvn6 + Fresh install of FC6, I've still got FC5 on a different partition if you need any details. + FC5 was a 32bit install + I've turned Desktop effects off + glxgears gives ~4200FPS
I've tried reducing the resolution to 1280x1024 - its not much better.
I've also noticed text and the pointer don't seem to get rendered properly now either - which make it look the driver to me.
Anyone had similar issues ? I'm trying to decide if its the 9xxx drivers - not that easy to try the 8xxx drivers as they don't exist in livna for the current kernels, and the there are the warnings of the potential problems with the NVidia installer and Fedora. Or perhaps its because I decided to try 64bit Fedora this time - not convinced. Or something else ?
Thanks Andy
Andy Campbell wrote:
I played Quake 4 on FC5 quite happily 20+ FPS @1600x1200, now under FC6 I'm lucky if I can get above 10FPS.
Details ...
- FC6 64bit
- Nvidia GeForce 7800 GS
- AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+
- xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.9631-1.lvn6
- Fresh install of FC6, I've still got FC5 on a different partition if you need any details.
- FC5 was a 32bit install
- I've turned Desktop effects off
- glxgears gives ~4200FPS
I've tried reducing the resolution to 1280x1024 - its not much better.
I've also noticed text and the pointer don't seem to get rendered properly now either - which make it look the driver to me.
Anyone had similar issues ? I'm trying to decide if its the 9xxx drivers - not that easy to try the 8xxx drivers as they don't exist in livna for the current kernels, and the there are the warnings of the potential problems with the NVidia installer and Fedora. Or perhaps its because I decided to try 64bit Fedora this time - not convinced. Or something else ?
Thanks Andy
When you installed the nvidia driver did you let it install the optional 32bit libraries?
I just checked both doom3 and quake4. No issues. I had not tried them in FC6 til just now. (been playing other things lately)
-> uname -a Linux eragon 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 #1 SMP Fri Nov 10 12:34:46 EST 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
nvidia 9631
The livna packages have not worked for me for a while now. For some reason a different set of GL extensions are available from the official driver and the livna driver. Specifically, GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array is missing from the livna driver for sure.
The new nvidia installer from nvidia for the 9xxx series is better about keeping the GL libraries strait.
Be sure to read the sticky in the nvidia forums about what you need to roll your own.
good luck!
On Mon, 2006-12-25 at 21:37 +0000, Andy Campbell wrote:
I played Quake 4 on FC5 quite happily 20+ FPS @1600x1200, now under FC6 I'm lucky if I can get above 10FPS.
Details ...
- FC6 64bit
- Nvidia GeForce 7800 GS
- AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+
- xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.9631-1.lvn6
- Fresh install of FC6, I've still got FC5 on a different partition if you need any details.
- FC5 was a 32bit install
- I've turned Desktop effects off
- glxgears gives ~4200FPS
I've tried reducing the resolution to 1280x1024 - its not much better.
I've also noticed text and the pointer don't seem to get rendered properly now either - which make it look the driver to me.
Anyone had similar issues ? I'm trying to decide if its the 9xxx drivers - not that easy to try the 8xxx drivers as they don't exist in livna for the current kernels, and the there are the warnings of the potential problems with the NVidia installer and Fedora. Or perhaps its because I decided to try 64bit Fedora this time - not convinced. Or something else ?
Thanks Andy
I have a similar machine - and both Quake 4 and Doom3 works just fine. Dual Opteron 270, 2GB, GF6800GT, 88.xx/9x.xx drivers.
- Gilboa
Gilboa Davara wrote:
On Mon, 2006-12-25 at 21:37 +0000, Andy Campbell wrote:
I played Quake 4 on FC5 quite happily 20+ FPS @1600x1200, now under FC6 I'm lucky if I can get above 10FPS.
Details ...
- FC6 64bit
- Nvidia GeForce 7800 GS
- AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+
- xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.9631-1.lvn6
- Fresh install of FC6, I've still got FC5 on a different partition if you need any details.
- FC5 was a 32bit install
- I've turned Desktop effects off
- glxgears gives ~4200FPS
I've tried reducing the resolution to 1280x1024 - its not much better.
I've also noticed text and the pointer don't seem to get rendered properly now either - which make it look the driver to me.
Anyone had similar issues ? I'm trying to decide if its the 9xxx drivers - not that easy to try the 8xxx drivers as they don't exist in livna for the current kernels, and the there are the warnings of the potential problems with the NVidia installer and Fedora. Or perhaps its because I decided to try 64bit Fedora this time - not convinced. Or something else ?
Thanks Andy
I have a similar machine - and both Quake 4 and Doom3 works just fine. Dual Opteron 270, 2GB, GF6800GT, 88.xx/9x.xx drivers.
- Gilboa
Looks like its the livna packages. I when to run level 3, unintalled the livna packages then used the NVidia installer. Now I'm back with 50-60fps.
I'll raise a bug if I can work out where, there must be something wrong with the packaging somewhere.
Thanks Andy
Andy Campbell wrote:
Gilboa Davara wrote:
On Mon, 2006-12-25 at 21:37 +0000, Andy Campbell wrote:
I played Quake 4 on FC5 quite happily 20+ FPS @1600x1200, now under FC6 I'm lucky if I can get above 10FPS.
Details ...
- FC6 64bit
- Nvidia GeForce 7800 GS
- AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+
- xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-1.0.9631-1.lvn6
- Fresh install of FC6, I've still got FC5 on a different partition if you need any details.
- FC5 was a 32bit install
- I've turned Desktop effects off
- glxgears gives ~4200FPS
I've tried reducing the resolution to 1280x1024 - its not much better.
I've also noticed text and the pointer don't seem to get rendered properly now either - which make it look the driver to me.
Anyone had similar issues ? I'm trying to decide if its the 9xxx drivers - not that easy to try the 8xxx drivers as they don't exist in livna for the current kernels, and the there are the warnings of the potential problems with the NVidia installer and Fedora. Or perhaps its because I decided to try 64bit Fedora this time - not convinced. Or something else ?
Thanks Andy
I have a similar machine - and both Quake 4 and Doom3 works just fine. Dual Opteron 270, 2GB, GF6800GT, 88.xx/9x.xx drivers.
- Gilboa
Looks like its the livna packages. I when to run level 3, unintalled the livna packages then used the NVidia installer. Now I'm back with 50-60fps.
I'll raise a bug if I can work out where, there must be something wrong with the packaging somewhere.
Thanks Andy
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