Slow Performance with all Linux installs

Uzzi · Post by **Uzzi** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 4:34 pm

I'm running BZflag on SLED 10, finally got in installed from source, however now there is a long pause whenever I move the up or down arrows (or any) in the initial setup. Playing a game would be impossible with this delay. Is this a memory issue? I've got an HP laptop, 512mem with 128 vid Ram and a Centrino Duo 1800 Mghz.

It seems whenever I try to install Bzflag, in Linux on other laptops with Nvidia or ATI cards it the same issue. This ranges from 32 megs of video ram to 64 to 128 (on my different laptops)

All these machines are dual boot and I'll flip over to Windows and it installs and works perfectly. Unfortunatly I hate Windows and hate to boot over to it just to play bzflag.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 5:06 pm

you should make sure that you have the hardware accelerated video drivers installed on your linux installs. The default drivers for most linux installs are not hardware accelerated. It is usualy best to get the current driver from ethat ATI or nVidia.

Uzzi · Post by **Uzzi** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 8:32 pm

I have an Intel 945 GM is there an accel vid driver for this card?

In Suse or SAX2 rather, DRI and noDCC are highlighted. Is this mean anything to the issue?

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 9:26 pm

DRI is a somewhat generic driver interface, and may not accellerate all cards to there maximum potential. You should check with intel to see if they have newer/better drivers for your chipset.

pyr0 · Post by **pyr0** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 3:04 am

http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts ... bmit=Go%21