Re: [Flightgear-devel] Start up Problems

[Victhor <vic...@gm...>]

Try running glxgears. If you can get more than 1000 FPS, then your card
is working properly. If you get less than 300 FPS, try installing the
legacy drivers instead.
> On Sun, 24 May 2009 09:18:59 -0400, Barry wrote in message 
> <4A1...@is...>:
> 
> > Thank Victhor
> > 
> > 1) Answer: Yes  But why then with prior versions:  0.9.0 and 1.0.0
> > fgfs ran perfectly fine on the current hardware,   in fact back then
> > I only had 1 GM Ram now I have 2 GB Ram
> 
> ..1, if Nvidia's latest doesn't work for you, say for some marketing
> reason such as "endlifed", see if you can find a "legacy" driver
> supporting their "legacy" cards, works at least for Debian people.
> 
> ..2, I too see a big frame rate drop, around 20 in FG-1.0.1 with 
> a Sapphire 128MB 8xAGP Radeon 9800 PRO on X.org's radeon driver, 
> with FG-cvs-"1.9x" I see 5fps.  This on a 3.2GHz 32bit Pentium4
> with 2GB ram running Debian Sid (GNU/Linux).
> (Part of my case is probably caused by some old crud trashing 
> Open-GL and KDE-4.2.x, which IME is _way_ much slower than 
> KDE-3.5.10 despite all the bragging I hear everywhere else.)
> 
> > 2) I'm currently only doing one head and it's messed up.
> >    I tried sending the screenshot but it got rejected due to size.
> >    Try http://www.8thdaymediaonline.com/fgfs-screen-002.ppm
> > 
> > Thank to all
> > 
> > Barry
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Victhor wrote:
> > > 1. Is your graphics driver the proprietary one?
> > > 2. If above is "Yes", then you have a graphics card that's not
> > > powerful enough. If you're running FG in the both heads, try
> > > running it in a single head only. Otherwise, if question 1 is "No",
> > > install the proprietary NVIDIA driver and try again.
> > >> Hi to All
> > >>
> > >> How can one check what libraries are being used when your run
> > >> fgfs ? Also how does one select the best ones?
> > >>
> > >> I'm running on Debian
> > >> Linux BARRY 2.6.26-1-vserver-686-bigmem #1 SMP Fri Mar 13 21:48:46
> > >> UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
> > >>
> > >> 2.4 GHz Pentium Processor  + 2 Gig Ram  + nVidia geForce 6200 Dual
> > >> Monitors
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> I recent upgraded to the new version downloaded and compiled the
> > >> source not the apt binary for debian.
> > >>
> > >> 1) It plays very choppy, like the plane lurches forward stops,
> > >> lurch, stop, etc...
> > >>
> > >> 2) The cockpit is blank in fact just running fgfs no other options
> > >> and the plane cannot be seen regardless of the view,  Even
> > >> changing the view or using fgfs --aircraft=777-200ER the plane is
> > >> not *all* just the left side and the engines there ??
> > >>
> > >> Any advice, please
> > >> Thanks in advance
> > >>
> > >> Barry
> 
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