Re: [Dri-devel] radeon 8500/64MB 3D stuttering (texture?); mode switching problems in wolfenstein.

[Keith W. <ke...@tu...>]

Pawel Salek wrote:
> 
> On 2003.02.02 04:24 Keith Whitwell wrote:
> 
>>> Steps to Reproduce:
>>> 1. Run RTCW with normal quality settings. Try opening a door (the 
>>> tram station, third level, is particularly good test case). The 
>>> computer can hang for a second, and the sound will stutter like on 
>>> damaged CD.
>>>
>>> Actual Results:  The computer can hang for a second, and the sound 
>>> will stutter like on damaged CD. Frame rate drops down from 100fps to 
>>> 1. It can be very difficult to aim and shoot in such a situation. :-)
>>>
>>> This is a regression wrt September 2002.
>>
>>
>> Pawel,
>>
>> Can you try using the pre-september kernel module with the current 
>> driver?  I have a guess that it may be related to changes made in the 
>> radeon.o module about that time.
> 
> 
> I tried v 1.5.0
> [drm] Initialized radeon 1.5.0 20020611 on minor 0
> as in dri CVS on 2002-08-31
> but the delays are still there. Should I try another version?

No.  Probably the most helpful thing you can do is binary search to try & find 
the change which introduced your problem.  So try a date half-way between now 
& september, check out that version & see if the problem is there, etc.

Keith