Choppie Game Play

[Catacomb]

AMD M-37 2Ghz
1Gig Ram
ATI Express 200M 128MB
Fedora Core 6

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Game Play Is Choopie Its Unplayable.... Any Ideas?

[divVerent]

I have no idea what an "ATI Express 200M" is, but did you install the fglrx driver?

[Urmel]

An ATI Express 200M is an onboard VGA. Surely not the worst onboard VGA. But an ATI. Which isn't considered as the suitable solution for Linux gaming.

Here my idea: install a windows partition

[esteel]

Well first of all we need to know if its choppy because you have bad (low) fps or bad (high) ping when playing online. If you play campaign or instant action or use the 'create' menu it will be a local game against bots so in that case it just can be choppy because of fps.

You can also display those two values. Ping is displayed in the scoreboard (the lower the better, i'd say anything over 100 IS BAD) and the FPS can be enabled in the 'options/effects' menu. Its called 'Show FPS'.

That being said ati drivers for linux are really bad performance wise and from what the others say its not even a very good graphics card. To you can try to lower the effects in Nexuiz to get more FPS like its mentioned here: http://forums.alientrap.local/viewtopic.php?t=90 (Section 'Nexuiz is too slow/fast')

[Psychcf]

ATI sucks when it comes to linux drivers.

[Catacomb]

Ok, It Plays Localy Good For About 2 Seconds And Then It Gets Choppie. No Worries, My New Box Is Getting Nvidia 7900GS PCI-E

[Sanguinarian]

Mine is flashing balck then normal game, choppy?
Manufacturer:
Dell Computer Corporation
Processor:
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Memory:
510MB RAM
Hard Drive:
75 GB
Video Card:
Intel(R) 82865G Graphics Controller
Monitor:
Plug and Play Monitor
Sound Card:
SoundMAX Digital Audio
Speakers/Headphones:
Keyboard:
USB Root Hub
Mouse:
USB Root Hub
Mouse Surface:
Operating System:
Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519)

[cyan]

nexuiz is choppy.

/hides

[Ed]

Intel(R) 82865G Graphics Controller

This is most likely the cause of the problem. We could do with some more info to help you. Is this just on Internet games or on the single player game too?

What do you get with:

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timedemo demos/demo1

On the console?

[Sanguinarian]

On the single player, after changing the graphics to lowest and disableing gamma, it stopped with 2 comps and 3 comps, at 4 it flickered and online it always flickers, I don't know where or wen to type, what you siad.