OpenGL Environment Variables or ut2004 is kinda choppy :(

[moonchin]

i owe it to you to mention i have amd 64 3200+ and a geforce FX 5900, 1 gig of ram on my Asus k8v deluxe. I'm using lorma, a 32-bit redhat 9 based distro, and i get some pretty crappy fps scores in ut2004 retail. it can dip into the low 20's but peak around 120fps if i'm in a small hallway with low amount of polygons, now I loved the demo and things were just fine. i'm running the latest version of the Nvidia drivers, and i configged XF86Config, to use the new drivers instead of "nv".


tried using all of the Nvidia suggestions on hayls website ( thanks btw)

and no go. my next approach is twaeking the opengl settings, which i have not a clue about. I'm thinking dropping the AA settings down a notch ( not sure what notch they are on).

on that other very popular, accepted world-wide, non-linux operating sytem it had a lil gui that you could tweak to meet your gaming needs.

i dont mind throwing together lil script, if i know where to start.

this is what i do know:
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-5336/README

that lil readme focuses mostly on instalation not tweaking But it does give me the "APPENDIX E: OPENGL ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE SETTINGS" to Work with. I'm just not sure where to stick them.

perhaps there could be other things to get more consistant speed? i'm not currently using the 2.6.x kernel, if it helps i'll upgrade.


lemme know what u think:confused: :confused: :rolleyes: :confused:

[Icarus]

That system should not have any problems with UT2004...I wonder if the AMD64 drivers need some work?

I have a thread in the games section that helps with the display perfomance with the UT2004 demo, I'm sure it still applies to the retail version
http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=123145

basicly remove the libSDL from the ../System directory for the game. Then the game will use your systems default OpenGL drivers and runs a hellofa lot better


As for the OpenGL settings for the nvidia drivers, put the statements in the /etc/XF86Config in the display driver section (under where you have Driver "nvidia")

And the 2.6 kernels do have a lot better support for the AMD64...but I don't think it would help you greatly