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Support => Technical Help: IN GAME bugs (after loading world) => Topic started by: capitanplaneta on June 15, 2005, 05:11:11 pm

Title: Updater too slow
Post by: capitanplaneta on June 15, 2005, 05:11:11 pm

Hi, I\'ve installed Planeshift on my Linux Fedora Core 3. Now I\'m running the updater and it seems to work but everything is sloooow. I mean, a graphical window appears, but when the mouse cursor enters it, it moves really slow.

Then when I click on the \"update\" button, the program starts retrieving the files, but after several hours, only 1% is completed.

Is this OK? How long should the update process take on a 512 Kbps ADSL connection?

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Post by: res on June 15, 2005, 06:01:15 pm

Sounds like you\'re not getting hardware graphics acceleration.

You can run the updater on the console with \"./updater --auto\", but that won\'t fix the acceleration issue. Once you start the game you\'ll want that.

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Post by: capitanplaneta on June 15, 2005, 06:30:15 pm

OK, I\'m running it now in text mode, it\'s a pity I don\'t have a good graphic card (it\'s an ATI Radeon 7500), so I guess I won\'t be able to play... anyway, I\'ll try.

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Post by: Platyna on June 15, 2005, 06:51:05 pm

Updater GUI on my machine (Duron 1.6, 1 GB RAM, 128 MB Graphic card) is
also slow. About the performance of other things see if that will help you:
http://www.planeshift3d.com/wbboard/thread.php?threadid=17196&boardid=41&styleid=2
Good luck.


Regards.

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Post by: capitanplaneta on June 15, 2005, 07:14:25 pm

Well I updated on text mode and the update process took only a few minutes. After that I\'ve been able to play. The game is slow when there are many objects (big buildings, etc) on screen but in general it runs quite smoothly (for a poor graphic card like mine).

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Post by: MWAAAHAAA on June 18, 2005, 03:04:14 pm

What drivers are you using, my Radeon 8500 also experienced major drops in framerate when at e.g. the plazaa, using the open source drivers. ATI\'s binary drivers are *much* faster, I really suggest you try them. There\'s one catch though, if I\'m not in GL mode, i.e. doing stuff on the desktop, the display just freezes when I perform certain actions (you know, when you can only move the mouse cursor and nothing else works). So you\'d have to switch your drivers every time you are not planning on playing planeshift, which is kind of annoying. Anyway, you should decide for yourself. I even get 15+ fps from the top of the tower with those binary drivers.