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darkhunter
06-11-2003, 10:46 AM
Hello,
I'm a linux newbie and I bought linux this month. Now I've installed Unreal Tournament 2003 in linux (takes ages to install). I've installed patch 2225. However, I got some big problems:
* The sound is faster than normal (normal is when I play the ogg files in XMMS, and faster than in Windows eXPensive)
* My framerate is lower than in Windows when playing. However, when I'm flying through the map, the framerate is far higher than in Windows (sometimes 100fps!)...but I never spectate ;).
I've installed the nVidia Linux drivers from nvidia.com (http://www.nvidia.com).
darkhunter
06-12-2003, 11:37 AM
...help...
Icarus
06-12-2003, 12:15 PM
Of course it takes a while to install...it's only 3GB :)
No idea on the sound problem, I can see how that would be amussing (or scarry) hearing a chain gun faster then normal
Being a bit slower in Linux then Windows is a common complaint, the flybys being faster tells me that you might have a slow processor...using bots eats up CPUtime like nothing else :)
darkhunter
06-12-2003, 01:08 PM
Sound is very irritating...it's becoming really unreal.
I still can't understand that the game runs perfect in Windows, while it doesn't in Linux.
darkhunter
06-18-2003, 03:49 PM
HELP
shadowrider
06-18-2003, 05:02 PM
one of the reasons it runs slower under linux is because linux uses opengl while windows uses d3d.
now, while that's true, you shouldn't be getting "unbelievebly" slow rate in linux. are you using 4349 or 4363 driver?
Icarus
06-18-2003, 05:14 PM
I think the sound card needs to be evaluated here and not the video.
If the sounds are playing too fast it is most likely the audio driver that is bjorked
What sound card do you have?
darkhunter
06-18-2003, 05:37 PM
Im using the nVidia driver of 05/06/03 or whatever it is new.
For my soundcard: check ma sig.
shadowrider
06-18-2003, 05:46 PM
if you got the newest driver for video(4363), then there's not much you can do to optimize it. maybe try to turn off services that you don't need while playing.
for the sound, i think suse uses alsa by default (but don't quote me on that one), and you can probably update it, which they have support for ac97 chip.
darkhunter
06-19-2003, 02:11 PM
YaST2 seems to support my chip.
How can I update ALSA?
you can milk every last bit of power from the card by making some changes to the settings.
what settings do you have in your XF86Config file for the card?
are you using the NvAGP AGP driver or the kernel AGP driver?
If are using the kernel AGP driver, then you can try using the NVidia one. To do that, you need to stop the kernel one from loading at boot (this will vary dependig on your dsitro); then you need to add this line to your NVidia device section in /etc/X11/XF86Config.
Option "NvAGP" "1"
(NOTE: this may or may nor work on your system - if it doesn't then return the settings to their origianl values)
You can also try to make sure that SBA and FastWrites are on. To do this, you need to make sure that when your system laods the module nvidia module that it does it like this:
modprobe nvidia options nvidia NVreg_EnableAGPSBA=1 NVreg_EnableAGPFW=1
how you accomplish this is distro-specific.
(NOTE: this may or may not work on your system - if it doesn't, then return the settings to their original values)
PS: for faster 2D performance with teh card add:
Option "RenderAccel" "On"
to the Nvidia Device section in your /etc/X11/XF86Config