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dasplan Herbst
Registered User
Join date: 27 Sep 2004
Posts: 1
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02-27-2007 04:20
hi, i'm a relative newbie to second life and ubuntu (latest). i have a pentium 4 and a nvidia 6800xt. i have nvidia drivers installed and i have no problem running second life except that's runs slow, at about 7fps average. i suppose i'm doing something wrong here, but i don't know where to start. hope someone can help me out here! =update= well, enabling fast agp writes in the bios helped... now i have about 32 fps, big improvement  |
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Adamh Kawabata
I'm back!
Join date: 17 Sep 2005
Posts: 4
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02-27-2007 04:38
me too but I'm using ATI and a Live CD version of unbutu
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Drake Bacon
Linux is Furry
Join date: 13 Jul 2005
Posts: 443
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02-27-2007 19:07
From: Adamh Kawabata me too but I'm using ATI and a Live CD version of unbutu ATI's will be slow. It's a driver issue that you need to thwack AMD for (AMD owns ATI).
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Tofu Linden
Linden Lab Employee
Join date: 29 Aug 2006
Posts: 471
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02-28-2007 05:35
Note that the GL extension usage on Linux is currently rather conservative by default, for reasons of stability with some common buggy GL drivers; the README describes how to turn on these extensions for extra speed at the risk of stability problems.
I expect that we'll see good speedups out of the box for many users during the beta phase for the Linux client, when we automatically select stable extensions according to the detected hardware and driver versions.
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Angel Sunset
Linutic
Join date: 7 Apr 2005
Posts: 636
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02-28-2007 06:00
"...we automatically select..." - now I am nervous! I really hope there will be a way to override the automaticity! Because of the variations in motherboard/BIOS/video card/software release, automatic can easily end up as " lowest common denominator" - so ALL get set back to the highest known stable setup, for a given card. Very bad for people who have taken a lot of time, effort and money to get a really optimum setup - they will be stuck with what is KNOWN to work with the most junky setup for this card 
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