On Monday 31 March 2003 09:31, Andy Ross wrote: > David Luff wrote: > > William McRaven wrote: > > > I downloaded the CVS last week .. tues or wed .. and installed it. > > > > > > The frame rate went to.. very bad. basically made flightgear > > > unflyable.. It also made regular flightgear unflyable .. the screen > > > jumping every 1 or 2 seconds.. and also other 3d programs started > > > doing the same.. TuxKart and TuxRacer.. > > > > OK, that's it!!! - ATC did *not* break TuxRacer ;-) > > I'll bet he installed the 4191 NVidia drivers at the same time. The > current version has terrible 2D performance issues. NVidia yanked the > XAA acceleration architecture and replaced it with their own, which is > only partially accelerated so far. In particular, the RENDER > extension is handled with a software fallback. > > So anything that tries to draw to the screen with RENDER causes > 0.1-0.3 second pauses as the X Server enters a tight software loop > blitting to the framebuffer. This includes text output (!) on the > gnome-terminal application shipped with most distributions. So if you > run FlightGear or other 3D apps from a gnome-terminal, you're hosed. > I work around this by running 3D apps from an xterm instead. > > Andy
Yep... I did at that.. and re-installed it also! I ran the NVchooser.sh script to see which I needed. (http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_display_ia32_1.0-4191 STEP 3) I run fgfs from runfgfs.sh ... from a link-to-app I put on the desktop.. so I don't run it from a terminal at all. I will usually close eveything else I have going as well.. I use KDE also.. not Gnome .. but that probably doesn't make much difference. So you think it would run better using windowmaker? I am still using this.... NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.src.rpm NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4191.i386.rpm I have nVidia GForce2 MX 64 meg ... Is there a better driver for it that I can use? Re's WillyB _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
