ATI performance 9600 fglrx

[bugmenot]

The performance of my ATI Radeon 9600 is really bad on urban terror (quake3 mod) using the newest flgrx ATI driver.. Although the graphics settings are switched to 640x480, low resolution textures etc, performance is unacceptably bad (25-40 fps, drops to slideshow when other players are visible).

Ubuntu 7.10

display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9600/9700 Series
OpenGL version string: 2.1.7276 Release

glxgears
12429 frames in 5.1 seconds = 2428.137 FPS
12761 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2552.025 FPS
11490 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2297.953 FPS
11275 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2254.947 FPS

Any ideas?

[damentz]

The game runs fine for me - but I"m using the latest driver.


display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI RADEON 9600 Series
OpenGL version string: 2.1.7281 Release

damentz@damentz-box:~$ glxgears
16953 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3390.463 FPS
17791 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3558.169 FPS

Oh, and thats fps with compiz fusion running :P

Try compiling the module or something too

m-a a-i -f fglrx-kernel-src

and make sure that its not a cpu bottleneck

[bugmenot]

Thanks very much for your response.

I'll try using a newer driver.

The pc is a bit on the antiquated side - CPU is pentium M 1.5 ghz 512 ram.

radeon is only 64 ram.

Thing is, I recall playing enemy territory on it a couple of years back (!) on fglrx and it being playable on 800x600, which is same engine really; hence URT on 640x480 being that slow is "unacceptable".

Thanks for the tips- will try newer driver.

[bnolsen]

I'm probably cpu bottlenecked
AthlonMPX with dual 1.8GHz cpus
fanless 9600 128MB

13015 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2602.900 FPS
12924 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2584.628 FPS
13015 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2602.940 FPS

I had been running the radeon driver but using the AGP multiplier at anything but 1x locked up. Also gl would run really strange and portions of the screen would flash.