Client running too slow

[Ozzy]

Hi,

My problem is that my client program is running too slow. My system is an Athlon 1800, 516 MB Ram, with Asus Nvidia TNT2 video card. Operating system is Mandrake 9.2, with OpenGL.

Even when I set all the video options down to 1st boxes, the game is playing so slow, that even pressing a menu button is a challange. The CPU is working at %100 all the time.

I doubt two possible reasons. The first being the low hardware acceleration of a TNT2 card, the second is a possible Nvidia/OpenGL problem. I've read at some forums that Nvidia chages some libGL.so files, but could not yet find a solution.

If anyone could help, I'd greatly appreciate the effort.

Regards,

Ozzy.

[Pluribus]

type the following:

glxinfo | grep -i Direct

If the output line says No then your NVIDIA driver install is fubar... And yes, the NVIDIA driver reeplaces ALL the libGL.so files :-) Since the distributed ones are software acceleration only, if you DIDNT replace them then direct rendering is broken and you need to fix that to start :-)

Another possibility is that you are in a crowded area... The TNT2 (ESPECIALLY if NON-ULTRA) is horribly unpowered for this game. (The ground textures take 17MB by themselves in some scenes) If this is a 16MB variety, then your ONLY solution is to get a higher end card... Sorry, no excuse for the most part... When GF2 MX200 cards (PLEASE dont buy this one it is bottom of the line) is $28 USD and GF FX 5200 128MB cards are $58.

[Ozzy]

type the following:

glxinfo | grep -i Direct

If the output line says No then your NVIDIA driver install is fubar... And yes, the NVIDIA driver reeplaces ALL the libGL.so files :-) Since the distributed ones are software acceleration only, if you DIDNT replace them then direct rendering is broken and you need to fix that to start :-)

Another possibility is that you are in a crowded area... The TNT2 (ESPECIALLY if NON-ULTRA) is horribly unpowered for this game. (The ground textures take 17MB by themselves in some scenes) If this is a 16MB variety, then your ONLY solution is to get a higher end card... Sorry, no excuse for the most part... When GF2 MX200 cards (PLEASE dont buy this one it is bottom of the line) is $28 USD and GF FX 5200 128MB cards are
$58.

Hi,

First, thank you for your prompt and usefull response.

the output is as follows:


[ozer@localhost ozer]$ glxinfo | grep -i Direct
Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
direct rendering: No
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect


I guess that means I need to change the video card. I'll see for the best prices here in Turkey. Thanks for the card reccommendations, also...

[Ozzy]

type the following:

glxinfo | grep -i Direct

If the output line says No then your NVIDIA driver install is fubar... And yes, the NVIDIA driver reeplaces ALL the libGL.so files :-) Since the distributed ones are software acceleration only, if you DIDNT replace them then direct rendering is broken and you need to fix that to start :-)

Another possibility is that you are in a crowded area... The TNT2 (ESPECIALLY if NON-ULTRA) is horribly unpowered for this game. (The ground textures take 17MB by themselves in some scenes) If this is a 16MB variety, then your ONLY solution is to get a higher end card... Sorry, no excuse for the most part... When GF2 MX200 cards (PLEASE dont buy this one it is bottom of the line) is $28 USD and GF FX 5200 128MB cards are
$58.

Hi,

First, thank you for your prompt and usefull response.

the output is as follows:


[ozer@localhost ozer]$ glxinfo | grep -i Direct
Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2
Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
direct rendering: No
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect


I guess that means I need to change the settings. No I how to do that, however... I'll look into changing the video card after setting this thing up correctly, however...

Thanks,

Ozzy.

[Pluribus]

This one is EASY.... You didnt install the NVIDIA drivers properly... Download the README from the NVIDIA website... It requests that you make changes to your XF86Config file...

Based on the output there, you didnt make them... Try that first...