games suddenly extremely slow

wijnands · 04-05-2004, 06:03 AM

Hi,

Have been running Mandrake 10rc1 on my omnibook 6100 for a few weeks now. After installation I've played a few laps of the included version of tuxracer and it performed as well as can be expected on a laptop.

Now I've tried to play it again and it's suddenly extremely slow. Same goes for chromium.

According to glxgears I have a frame rate of about 252.000fps. Glxinfo
reports no errors.

Any ideas anyone?

dopefish · 04-05-2004, 07:46 AM

Have you recently installed Mesa or any other video drivers? run glxinfo and see if direct rendering is turned on.

wijnands · 04-05-2004, 09:19 AM

haven't installed anything like that.

Direct Rendering is set to No.

qwijibow · 04-05-2004, 09:22 AM

direct rendering should be used ! (unless you have a nvidia card, the nvidia drivers have there own alternative to DRI)

what graphics card u using ?

wijnands · 04-05-2004, 09:31 AM

ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6

how would I go about switching it on?

qwijibow · 04-05-2004, 05:01 PM

by installed the ATI drivers from ATI.com

wijnands · 04-06-2004, 03:40 AM

ok, there's a thought. But it doesn't click somehow. If it used to work and now doesn't work anymore I don't think the drivers are the issue here.