Re: Periodic sluggishness in games
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 20:02, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 18:03, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote:
> >
> >>I'm experiencing periodic sluggishness when I play 3d games like Unreal
> >>Tournament (natively) and Max Payne (WineX). It's not a framerate
> >>problem, because there's no choppiness, it's periodic (a minute of
> >>slowness, a couple minutes of normal, a couple of slow, et c.), and
> >>there's no apparent relation to the complexity of the action when it
> >>happens. The effect is as if the game itself is going into a slow-mo
> >>mode (yes, I know, Max Payne has a slow-mo mode, but that's not what's
> >>going on here).
> >>
> >>I have a new Dell 5150 with an nVidia GeForce FX 5200 using the latest
> >>nVidia-supplied drivers. I don't have any apps running while I'm playing
> >>the games, save for Gnome and its applets and such.
> >>
> >>Does anyone have any clue what could be the problem here?
> >
> >
> > Can you ssh in from another system, and run top(1) in P mode?
> > Maybe some intermittent process is jumping in.
>
> Assuming that any such process would be running even when I'm not in a
> game, would simply watching top for a while work?
Oh, ok, I assumed (yeah, yeah, I know) that these were full-screen
games that would make that impossible.
> Unfortunately I don't have another system to ssh from.
>
> As a test, I tried playing UT from twm, with none of the Gnome stuff
> running. The same problem occurs. It appears to be kind of progressive:
> it's fine for a good while, then slows for a moment, then is fine for a
> shorter time, then slows, then fine, slows, fine, slows, et c.
Have you tried any other games, like tuxracer?
> Just from sitting here watching top for a while, it appears my highest
> memory hog is Mozilla Mail checking for new messages, but that never
> gets above 4%. I've run the game without Mozilla in the background, with
> the same behavior.
>
> I've never noticed this effect in Windows.
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