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UT 2004 and ATI framerate

Hi,

Im running fc2, ati 3.7.6 drivers.

My specs are p4 2ghz (northwood) with 512mb ram

When I play UT2k4 at 1024x768x32bit with full details on, my card averages a somewhat pitiful 22fps.

But strangely, when i play at 800x600 it's just as bad. Is there some kind of AGP thing i haven't enabled, or some driver facet that could be causing this.

what type of video card are you using? A relatively new ATI?

Well since you are getting 22fps, you appear to have the driver installed correctly, otherwise I think it would be a fraction of one fps.

Unfortunately ATI's support for the linux community is general is somewhat lacking compared to their competitors (nvidia). I spent days trying to get a 9700 pro to work on FC1

UT2004 is a hardware intensive game esp. with full detail on. There are so many little thing to tweak and play with video cards.

You may want to have a look at http://icculus.org/lgfaq/

lots of stuff there that may be of interest. It should be relevant to 2004 as well.

Also try the new 3.9.0 drivers that came out the other day. Maybe it has improvements.

i have the same problem. glxgears gives me in the order of 9000 frames per 5 seconds;

Code:

8744 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1748.800 FPS

8750 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1750.000 FPS

8751 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1750.200 FPS

8757 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1751.400 FPS

UT2K4 performes MUCH better in windows the under linux.
I have a radeon 9600 on a system with a 900 MHz AMD processor (:( ) and 384 MB ram. The driver seems to be loading and I have dri enabled. This is the output of glxinfo

Code:

 name of display: :0.0

display: :0  screen: 0

direct rendering: Yes

server glx vendor string: SGI

server glx version string: 1.2

server glx extensions:

    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context

client glx vendor string: ATI

client glx version string: 1.3

client glx extensions:

    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context,

    GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_ATI_pixel_format_float,

    GLX_ATI_render_texture

GLX extensions:

    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context

OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.

OpenGL renderer string: RADEON 9600 Generic

OpenGL version string: 1.3 (X4.3.0-3.9.0)

OpenGL extensions:

    GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_EXT_texture_env_add, GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array,

    GL_S3_s3tc, GL_ARB_depth_texture, GL_ARB_fragment_program,

    GL_ARB_fragment_program_shadow, GL_ARB_multisample,

    GL_ARB_occlusion_query, GL_ARB_point_parameters, GL_ARB_shadow,

    GL_ARB_shadow_ambient, GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp,

    GL_ARB_texture_compression, GL_ARB_texture_cube_map,

    GL_ARB_texture_env_add, GL_ARB_texture_env_combine,

    GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar, GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3,

    GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_ARB_transpose_matrix,

    GL_ARB_vertex_blend, GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object, GL_ARB_vertex_program,

    GL_ARB_window_pos, GL_ATI_draw_buffers, GL_ATI_element_array,

    GL_ATI_envmap_bumpmap, GL_ATI_fragment_shader, GL_ATI_map_object_buffer,

    GL_ATI_separate_stencil, GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3,

    GL_ATI_texture_float, GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once,

    GL_ATI_vertex_array_object, GL_ATI_vertex_attrib_array_object,

    GL_ATI_vertex_streams, GL_ATIX_texture_env_combine3,

    GL_ATIX_texture_env_route, GL_ATIX_vertex_shader_output_point_size,

    GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra, GL_EXT_blend_color, GL_EXT_blend_func_separate,

    GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract, GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint,

    GL_EXT_draw_range_elements, GL_EXT_fog_coord, GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays,

    GL_EXT_packed_pixels, GL_EXT_point_parameters, GL_EXT_rescale_normal,

    GL_EXT_secondary_color, GL_EXT_separate_specular_color,

    GL_EXT_shadow_funcs, GL_EXT_stencil_wrap, GL_EXT_texgen_reflection,

    GL_EXT_texture3D, GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc,

    GL_EXT_texture_cube_map, GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp,

    GL_EXT_texture_env_combine, GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3,

    GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic, GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias,

    GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_object,

    GL_EXT_texture_rectangle, GL_EXT_vertex_array, GL_EXT_vertex_shader,

    GL_HP_occlusion_test, GL_NV_texgen_reflection, GL_NV_blend_square,

    GL_NV_occlusion_query, GL_NV_point_sprite, GL_ARB_point_sprite,

    GL_SGI_color_matrix, GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp,

    GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp, GL_SGIS_texture_lod,

    GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap, GL_SGIS_multitexture, GL_SUN_multi_draw_arrays

glu version: 1.3

glu extensions:

    GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess



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I don't know what the frame rate is under UT2K4 cos I don't know how to find that out. But its suboptimal.

bring down the console in ut2k4, type stat fps (enter)

Then play for a while and see what your average is.

Yeah I just found that out my self. Here is a shocker; the everage frame rate is 7 !!!! :eek: SEVEN! , blady hell. Thats not right.....

This site seems to have some usefull info : http://pclinuxonline.com/modules.php...um=53&start=40

I'm going to try to install the x server from x.org . Please keep your fingers crossed every one.....

I use Xorg, so that won't solve it.

Hey y'all, I saw this thread and I knew it was for me. It has taken me forever to get it right. Anyway, what you want to do is go to schneiderdigital.com (not ati.com) and get the newest 3.9.0 drivers, from the fglrx-4.3.0-3.9.0.i386.rpm file. (I know it's only a .i386, but the .i586 doesn't work). If you get an error about not having a build or something, install your source files from urpmi. If it says something about versioning... Uninstall your kernel build environment, and then reinstall it, then try the fglrx drivers again. Finally, when you do fglrxconfig MAKE SURE TO PUT THE SECOND CHOICE, it says something about C++ I think, if you don't you won't get jack for frames. Good luck, I hope it works as well for you as it did for me. I have a Radeon 9700 Pro and I get about 3882 fps in glxgears, and about 50 fps in UT2004.

System:
XP2500+ (OC'd to 2700+)
1.5 GB of RAM (@ 333 mhz)
Radeon 9700 Pro
Nforce 2 Board

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I use Xorg, so that won't solve it

Yeah I noticed. Oh well, atleast I got a newer xsrever installed.

Where abouts on that site are the ati drivers?

ocarina_of_time; I'm getting the error "file not found". I would really appreciate it if you would mail the driver to me. Or I you could put it on a site somewhere.