Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 11:43:09 -0400 From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@sweetdreamsracing.biz> To: Uwe Laverenz <uwe@laverenz.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NVidia vs. KT600 Message-ID: <20040722114309.avqc0ow44gcw0084@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> In-Reply-To: <20040722152044.GB61751@ensign.laverenz.de> References: <20040722152044.GB61751@ensign.laverenz.de>
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Quoting Uwe Laverenz <uwe@laverenz.de>: > Hi, > > I have a strange problem with the NVidia drivers on my machines: when I start > a glx-application (glxgears, quake2...) the performance is normal. If I > make another attempt a few minutes later, the performance is ridiculous slow. > > Example: > > glxgears, 1st run: 6400 FPS > glxgears, 2nd run: 17 FPS > > FreeBSD-versions: 5.2.1-p9 and 4.10-STABLE > Nvidia-cards: GF4-Ti/4200 > Boards: Asus A7V-600 (Athlon XP) > > If have tried several combinations of AGP-Support (FreeBSD vs. NVidia), > nvidia-sysctls, XF86Configs ... without success. > > The next strange thing: if I wait several minutes, the performance > is normal again, but only for 1 attempt, the next one ist slow again. This > makes playing Quake2 impossible, because connecting a server includes a > "vid_restart" (-> sloooow). > > I guess that something gets "locked" somehow. The next thing I want to > try is an older 4.x version. > > Could this be a problem with the VIA KT600 chipset? Does anybody > else experience this problem or am I the only lamer playing Quake on > FreeBSD? ;) > > thank you for any help, > Uwe > I don't think so, I started observing this problem as well with my via k8t800 based amd64 system. It wasn't doing this at all until around end of May or beginning of June. I think a commit around that time messed something up. Ken
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