If your computer is quite slow, try adjusting the operating system as well.
You could set PulseAudio to use a lower quality mode, as it is quite CPU expensive.
Furthermore, you could use a Window Manager like Enlightment, which uses less hardware power, or even a different desktop environment like XFCE.
The graphic card (driver) seems to be quite slow, with my graphics card (NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT, a whole different class) I get with Compiz enabled
Quote:
13710 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2741.572 FPS
14046 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2808.962 FPS
Metacity instead yields
Quote:
25991 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5198.191 FPS
25820 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5163.993 FPS
If possible, try to upgrade some of your hardware, that's more effective than to tamper with small software optimizations.
But if you like to go the difficult way, there's a whole bunch of tweaks for ioQuake3 based games
If your computer is quite slow, try adjusting the operating system as well.
You could set PulseAudio to use a lower quality mode, as it is quite CPU expensive.
Furthermore, you could use a Window Manager like Enlightment, which uses less hardware power, or even a different desktop environment like XFCE.
The graphic card (driver) seems to be quite slow, with my graphics card (NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT, a whole different class) I get with Compiz enabled
Quote:
13710 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2741.572 FPS
14046 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2808.962 FPS
Metacity instead yields
Quote:
25991 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5198.191 FPS
25820 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5163.993 FPS
If possible, try to upgrade some of your hardware, that's more effective than to tamper with small software optimizations.
But if you like to go the difficult way, there's a whole bunch of tweaks for ioQuake3 based games
I don't think I'll be buying a new graphics card for a 6-year old computer whose motherboard will probably die in a few months here anyway.
I'd like to try the other solutions, but most of that went way over my head... _________________ DeviantArt|Music
Jesus wrote:
Blessed are the Peacemakers, for they will be called the sons of God
It's an option in-game, under System, you can say "Enable OpenGL Extensions" yes or no. When I click Yes, the sound all becomes one big hiss. It also hisses when I start the program.
Oh, I thought you were talking about the GNOME menu. In this case, you should report that as a bug here in the SG forum, but in a new thread...
Furthermore, you could use a Window Manager like Enlightment, which uses less hardware power, or even a different desktop environment like XFCE.
Honestly, I don't think that changing the DE really helps, especially not if switching to XFCE in Ubuntu. I've recently found this article that shows that Xubuntu eats up even more resources than Ubuntu does. But LXDE or Fluxbox may be worth a try...
However, while it may be possible to get a few more FPS with a lot of tweaking, I think that without better drivers he will never get the same FPS he had with windows. Sadly, the win<->lin performance difference is huge with intel and ati drivers, and still noticable with nvidia. That's why I only buy nvidia, it's the best choice for linux gaming currently, but I really hope the situation will improve some day...
At this point, I think I'll just screw around in Windows some more. I just found a different driver (from Intel instead of Dell) for my graphics controller, and I installed it in XP Compatibility Mode, so I'll try that. _________________ DeviantArt|Music
Jesus wrote:
Blessed are the Peacemakers, for they will be called the sons of God
Sounds like you are using an intel integrated graphics card. Uncle Slice is also running on an intel integrated graphics card (although, mine is about 2 years newer than yours).
I had the same problem, and it actually came down to the intel drivers.
So for the linux kernels starting from 2.6.28, the GEM got moved to the kernel, and KSM got turned on...long story short, Ubuntu continues to ship the old intel drivers with newer version of the kernel, and the result is a graphically-dead machine.
Solution? Painstakingly upgrade the drivers! Follow the instructions on this link, and you will be running on fps equal, if not higher, than its Windows counterpart.
Solution? Painstakingly upgrade the drivers! Follow the instructions on this link, and you will be running on fps equal, if not higher, than its Windows counterpart.
That howto is for Jaunty, not for Karmic! Imho, the drivers in Karmic should be up-to-date, and they already perform a lot better than the ones in Jaunty. Of course you can try to install newer driverys (if they exist), but you'd have to adapt the instructions to your distribution otherwise you'd likely mess up your system...
Solution? Painstakingly upgrade the drivers! Follow the instructions on this link, and you will be running on fps equal, if not higher, than its Windows counterpart.
That howto is for Jaunty, not for Karmic! Imho, the drivers in Karmic should be up-to-date, and they already perform a lot better than the ones in Jaunty. Of course you can try to install newer driverys (if they exist), but you'd have to adapt the instructions to your distribution otherwise you'd likely mess up your system...
Well, I did it, and it worked out pretty well, I think. I'm now getting around 30-40 FPS as long as I'm not on top of a building. I'm not sure what else to do. _________________ DeviantArt|Music
Jesus wrote:
Blessed are the Peacemakers, for they will be called the sons of God
Well, I did it, and it worked out pretty well, I think. I'm now getting around 30-40 FPS as long as I'm not on top of a building. I'm not sure what else to do.
Now I'm curious: which configuration did you choose? Did you replace "jaunty" with "karmic" when adding the repositories?
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 11:49 am Post subject: HI, cannot get sg to work in ubuntu linux
Hi, I downloaded SG to my home folder, I then extracted it to my home folder, changed the folder name to SmokinGuns, then changed the smokinguns.x86 file to a executable one by clicking the box.
It would not work, and I read here that I should try to open it in a terminal and see what error message I get:
I did: cd SmokinGuns
./smokinguns.x86
it said: ./smokinguns.x86: error while loading shared libraries: libopenal.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Any help in resolving this issue is greatly appreciated
Thank you
All of this has already been discussed within this thread, please read all posts before asking the same question again! I'll give you a summary though:
1. Install OpenAL (assuming you are using latest Ubuntu):
OK, the good news first : OpenAL is installed (as you can see from the output of the 'apt-get install' command). You also managed to create the symlink. But it seems that you are missing the correct drivers for your graphics card. This has also already been discussed here (look for the same error within Redwings posts)...
If you need more help, you should answer some questions first:
- what distro do you use (inclusing version number)?
- what graphics card do you own?
- did you install any drivers for your graphics card? If so, which version?
If you don't much about your graphics card, paste the output of
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