Ok heres a weird problem Im having with the intel drivers. This computer has an intel 910gl express chipset family card, and I installed the video drivers that were in the software manager. I tried running the linux game TORC, and the 3d is all slow. While on the track, I get 2 fps, and sometimes full frames. I think something isn't enabled. What do I do?
I think it's compiz.
That video chipset is a piece of trash and I would be surprised if it performed any better on Windows.
Try a less video-intensive game and see if you're still having frame rate issues.
[QUOTE=n0cturni;26439262]That video chipset is a piece of trash and I would be surprised if it performed any better on Windows.
Try a less video-intensive game and see if you're still having frame rate issues.[/QUOTE]
I think I found the problem. I didnt do a swap partition when installing ubuntu. Im going to reinstall. And in windows it performs like its supposed to.
Unless you're so short on RAM that your disk is thrashing while playing the game, I doubt the lack of a swap partition is responsible for extremely low framerates.
It really could be Compiz as nikomo suggested, though. When it's running, things that draw to the screen don't actually draw to the screen; Compiz has to step in to put them on the screen. Rendering lots of frames involves lots of context switching back and forth between the game and the compositor, with one OpenGL context drawing into a pixmap that's bound to a texture in another OpenGL context.
I haven't played TORCS, but I've seen compositing cause a significant performance impact in a few other games. Try turning off desktop effects and see if your framerate improves.
I doubt it's swap, you'd probably just get an allocation error and the program would crash when it runs out of RAM, instead of slowing down to 2fps. Probably.
well I disabled compiz, and the slowdown seems to be caused by having computer opponent cars in the game. I tried without any and I get full frames, but with I think 5-6 cars in the game, i get 7-8 fps.
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