Awful 3D fps...
 

Hey guys - having a bit of a problem with my ati card. Yeah I know, the first thought should be "Go buy an nvidia card" but the X1950pro I've got is a massive upgrade over my old NV card and didnt cost very much...

I have installed the latest ati website drivers (both "manually" from the ubuntu edgy wiki and using envy) with rather mixed results. Basically - everything works properly except for 3D apps. AGP seems to be working (detected the correct value), Direct Rendering is "Yes" and the OpenGL drivers are the ati ones. The problem I have is that my fps is absolutely terrible. I ran lsmod and for some reason I didnt see agp gart newhere - is that supposed to be true (i.e. does the ati driver use an internal agp module of some kind?)

I've been scouring the web for answers but cant find any - I've disabled AIGLX and Composite in xorg.conf and tried basically every tweak I can find.

Any1 got any ideas? If you want me to post any program logs or confs i'm happy to if it helps... Oh and btw I've got XGL and Beryl installed - ofc Direct Rendering is switched off if they are loaded. The weird thing is that in Cedega, with GNOME loaded it passes on direct rendering but fails on 3d acceleration (the fps is too low), and with XGL loaded it fails on the direct rendering but the 3d acceleration test passes easily (massive fps).

I'm using an ATI X1950 Pro, AMD64 with Ubuntu 6.10 edgy (64bit edition), Gigabyte GA-K8NS-Ultra mobo and 1.5GB RAM. Oh, and I'm using the kernel version that came with ubuntu - thats 2.6.17-10.


Thanks in advance.


Nick

I share the pain
 

Yep! ATI Radeon x850 Pro with the FGLRX stuff all installed properly and the usual correct results from all the recommended tests for having the ATI driver installed and 3D acceleration enabled.

I tried using Mupen64, the binary version from his website, not the one you have to build yourself in his emutalk.net forum.

Games play with like 2-5 fps speed. That's 2 to 5, not 25 fps!

Boy, they look beautiful! Sure don't get any game playing in though. I tried all the plugins he includes and many settings within them. Nothing speeds things up to a playable speed.

Got an Epox EP8KRAIPRO, AthlonXP 3200+, 2x512MB Crucial 3200 DDR SDRAM, SB Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro.

I think things should be a bit better than that, eh?

XGL/Compiz was turned off to play the games (using just the normal xorg 7.2).

I suppose if I had an NVidia card my 3D OpenGL would be nice like in Windows?

The only other game I tried besides a few N64 games in Mupen64 was the Linux game "SuperTux." That one's options tells me that OpenGL is not available! Well, at least it plays normally.

I actually have a Gigabyte NVidia GeForce 6600GT in a somewhat spec matching computer that I'm not using right now. The stuff in that box nearly duplicates what I have in this box except the power supply fans are noisy and the Audigy 2 ZS is just the plain Platinum, not Platinum Pro, and it has the NVidia card. The case is just a plain one, not the fancy Antec with the see-through window.

ATI just runs so much better on Windows, and the case is quieter, so I really prefer using this one. Plus I activated my Windows Vista Ultimate Upgrade on this one! ATI has better Vista drivers. Also, the ATI has 256MB memory, OpenGL 2 and Pixel Shader 3, whereas the NVidia is 128MB with OpenGL 1.5 and Pixal Shader 2.

So, for everything except Linux I'm using the right box, but for Linux I guess ATI is bad. Too bad I only have one desk! I just built 2 of these computers so I'd have one as a backup for when things started to break down. No, I'm not rich but had the money at the time to duplicate things.

I've got loads of Windows games and programs. Funny though, I haven't gone into my Windows hard drive in a couple of weeks. Using OpenSuSE Linux 10.2 and I'm finding it quite nice.

Darned ATI!

I don't think there is any answer that can solve the bad OpenGL/gaming performance with an ATI card on Linux. Only ATI can solve that with more work on optimizing the driver.