Thread: [tuxracer-main] Tuxracer very slow
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From: <Bjo...@gm...> - 2000-11-20 22:12:06
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Sorry for my poor English, but I am German. I have a problem with tuxracer: I installed all programs without any errors, but the game (also the startup-screen) is very slow, the snowflakes fall=20 down very slow. The cursor is slow, too. I think perhaps 1 frame / 4 seconds. It cannot be because of my CPU,=20 I use a P-III-500 with 64MB-RAM and SuSE Linux 7.0 with an nVIDIA Riva TNT2 Model 64 graphic card. Does anybody know what I could do ? Thanks for reading this, Bj=F6rn |
From: Evan A. W. <eweaver@UDel.Edu> - 2000-11-21 02:55:19
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Are you using the NVidia graphics drivers (both kernel and GLX) available from NVidia.com? Mine was like that until I installed them, then it ran great. I have a Celeron 800 with a TNT2 Pro 32 Meg, and Linux-Mandrake 7.2 (which comes with tuxracer included, incidentally). -------------------- Evan Weaver ew...@ud... University of Delaware On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, [iso-8859-1] Björn Tappert wrote: > > Sorry for my poor English, but I am German. > I have a problem with tuxracer: > I installed all programs without any errors, but the game > (also the startup-screen) is very slow, the snowflakes fall > down very slow. The cursor is slow, too. I think perhaps > 1 frame / 4 seconds. It cannot be because of my CPU, > I use a P-III-500 with 64MB-RAM and SuSE Linux 7.0 with an > nVIDIA Riva TNT2 Model 64 graphic card. > Does anybody know what I could do ? > > Thanks for reading this, > Björn > |
From: Steve B. <sjb...@ai...> - 2000-11-21 03:05:21
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> Björn Tappert wrote: > Sorry for my poor English, but I am German. Your English is *perfect*...no need to apologise. > I have a problem with tuxracer: > I installed all programs without any errors, but the game > (also the startup-screen) is very slow, the snowflakes fall > down very slow. The cursor is slow, too. I think perhaps > 1 frame / 4 seconds. It cannot be because of my CPU, > I use a P-III-500 with 64MB-RAM and SuSE Linux 7.0 with an > nVIDIA Riva TNT2 Model 64 graphic card. > Does anybody know what I could do ? It sounds like you don't have the nVidia OpenGL drivers installed - or perhaps you still have the original MesaGL drivers installed and the game is picking up those instead. You'll need to install Xfree 4.0.1 and get the nVidia Linux drivers from www.nvidia.com Without the correct drivers, the system will fall back on software rendering - which is very slow compared to a TNT2 card! -- Steve Baker HomeEmail: <sjb...@ai...> WorkEmail: <sj...@li...> HomePage : http://web2.airmail.net/sjbaker1 Projects : http://plib.sourceforge.net http://tuxaqfh.sourceforge.net http://tuxkart.sourceforge.net http://prettypoly.sourceforge.net |
From: <bug...@gm...> - 2000-11-21 20:02:28
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> > Sorry for my poor English, but I am German. > I have a problem with tuxracer: > I installed all programs without any errors, but the game > (also the startup-screen) is very slow, the snowflakes fall > down very slow. The cursor is slow, too. I think perhaps > 1 frame / 4 seconds. It cannot be because of my CPU, > I use a P-III-500 with 64MB-RAM and SuSE Linux 7.0 with an > nVIDIA Riva TNT2 Model 64 graphic card. > Does anybody know what I could do ? > I have the same problem on exactly(?!?) the same system: P3-500, 64MB, TNT2 M64, SuSE 7.0. However, installing new drivers didn't solve the problem. I'm currently using XFree86 4.0.1 and the nVidia GLX driver version 0.95, but with XFree86 4.0.0 and nVidia GLX 0.94 it was exactly the same. (and I'm sure I don't have the original MesaGL-drivers installed) I think the problem is somewhere between the GLX-driver and SDL, because OpenGL-programs which don't use SDL (e.g. ssystem and the glut-demos) work without problems, as do SDL-programs which don't use OpenGL (e.g. Maelstrom)... Only programs which use SDL *and* OpenGL (e.g. Tuxracer and gltron) run extremely slow. Before I installed SDL Tuxracer worked fine, too - just without sound, of course. Any ideas? This is at least the 3rd report of problems on a TNT2 *M64*... |
From: Evan A. W. <eweaver@UDel.Edu> - 2000-11-21 21:57:06
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The NVidia drivers have special instructions for M64 users. Did you follow them? The file is something like TNT2_M64_README. -------------------- Evan Weaver ew...@ud... University of Delaware On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 bug...@gm... wrote: > > > > Sorry for my poor English, but I am German. > > I have a problem with tuxracer: > > I installed all programs without any errors, but the game > > (also the startup-screen) is very slow, the snowflakes fall > > down very slow. The cursor is slow, too. I think perhaps > > 1 frame / 4 seconds. It cannot be because of my CPU, > > I use a P-III-500 with 64MB-RAM and SuSE Linux 7.0 with an > > nVIDIA Riva TNT2 Model 64 graphic card. > > Does anybody know what I could do ? > > > > I have the same problem on exactly(?!?) the same system: > P3-500, 64MB, TNT2 M64, SuSE 7.0. > However, installing new drivers didn't solve the problem. > I'm currently using XFree86 4.0.1 and the nVidia GLX driver version 0.95, > but with XFree86 4.0.0 and nVidia GLX 0.94 it was exactly the same. > (and I'm sure I don't have the original MesaGL-drivers installed) > I think the problem is somewhere between the GLX-driver and SDL, because > OpenGL-programs which don't use SDL (e.g. ssystem and the glut-demos) > work without problems, as do SDL-programs which don't use OpenGL > (e.g. Maelstrom)... > Only programs which use SDL *and* OpenGL (e.g. Tuxracer and gltron) run > extremely slow. > Before I installed SDL Tuxracer worked fine, too - just without sound, of > course. > > Any ideas? > This is at least the 3rd report of problems on a TNT2 *M64*... > > > _______________________________________________ > tuxracer-main mailing list > tux...@li... > http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/tuxracer-main > |
From: <gr...@hi...> - 2000-11-21 23:22:41
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This was discussed a while back on this list when I was having the same trouble with my Voodoo 3. Someone should probably post this in the Tuxracer documentation somewhere because it does seem to get quite a lot of people, and can be mis-interpreted as a Mesa config problem, when it is NOT. It does appear to be some sort of interaction between SDL and Mesa (not sure which lib is at fault), just the act of linking SDL breaks it though. Since Tuxracer currently doesn't have an option for disabling SDL I just commented out all the SDL related tests in configure.in (use 'dnl ' at the beginning of a line to comment it out), ran "autoconf" and then ./configure again. Hope that helps.. Josh Green Quoting bug...@gm...: > > > > Sorry for my poor English, but I am German. > > I have a problem with tuxracer: > > I installed all programs without any errors, but the game > > (also the startup-screen) is very slow, the snowflakes fall > > down very slow. The cursor is slow, too. I think perhaps > > 1 frame / 4 seconds. It cannot be because of my CPU, > > I use a P-III-500 with 64MB-RAM and SuSE Linux 7.0 with an > > nVIDIA Riva TNT2 Model 64 graphic card. > > Does anybody know what I could do ? > > > > I have the same problem on exactly(?!?) the same system: > P3-500, 64MB, TNT2 M64, SuSE 7.0. > However, installing new drivers didn't solve the problem. > I'm currently using XFree86 4.0.1 and the nVidia GLX driver version > 0.95, > but with XFree86 4.0.0 and nVidia GLX 0.94 it was exactly the same. > (and I'm sure I don't have the original MesaGL-drivers installed) > I think the problem is somewhere between the GLX-driver and SDL, because > OpenGL-programs which don't use SDL (e.g. ssystem and the glut-demos) > work without problems, as do SDL-programs which don't use OpenGL > (e.g. Maelstrom)... > Only programs which use SDL *and* OpenGL (e.g. Tuxracer and gltron) run > extremely slow. > Before I installed SDL Tuxracer worked fine, too - just without sound, > of > course. > > Any ideas? > This is at least the 3rd report of problems on a TNT2 *M64*... > > > _______________________________________________ > tuxracer-main mailing list > tux...@li... > http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/tuxracer-main > |