Way too slow - 5 FPS, on Intel GMA 950, dualcore CPU, Linux

[dimitar_from_the_forest]

Hello guys! I'm running linux on a thinkpad laptop - r60e which has a integrated video card and a dualcore CPU. I installed Nexuiz 2.4 by unzipping the .zip file provided, not using apt. Unfortunatelly the game is so slow its unplayable even if I disable the desktop effects and I turn all the settings on the lowest possible. I can play OpenArena/Quake3 with a good framerate on Highest settings, so I don't suppose its hardware problem..

[madcrow]

Hello guys! I'm running linux on a thinkpad laptop - r60e which has a integrated video card and a dualcore CPU. I installed Nexuiz 2.4 by unzipping the .zip file provided, not using apt. Unfortunatelly the game is so slow its unplayable even if I disable the desktop effects and I turn all the settings on the lowest possible. I can play OpenArena/Quake3 with a good framerate on Highest settings, so I don't suppose its hardware problem..

That IS interesting, considering that I can get 50-60 FPS with similar settings on even weaker hardware.

[Urmel]

Dunno if that dual core issue can also occur on Linux, but if, you should try to allign Nexuiz to one of the two CPU cores.

[dimitar_from_the_forest]

Dunno if that dual core issue can also occur on Linux, but if, you should try to allign Nexuiz to one of the two CPU cores.

thanks! but how is that done?

[dimitar_from_the_forest]

By the way its the same on both the SDL and GLX versions.

[esteel]

basicly you switch to the taskmanager find nexuiz.exe, rightclick on it and choose to set affinity to one of your cores.
But i think there should also be a option in the graphic drivers to disable multithreading support, that screws up a lot of games.

[Ed]

basicly you switch to the taskmanager find nexuiz.exe...

Linux. Deal with it

I thought that issue was an NVIDIA driver issue only?

I have a laptop with a 945GM in it, might be worth comparing. That gets some usable framerates despite being technically worse.

What is the output of glxinfo on the command line? Does it say Direct Rendering is enabled or not?

[dimitar_from_the_forest]

thanks for the reply!

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$ glxinfo |grep direct
direct rendering: Yes


I guess its enabled..