Which drivers are you using ?

Under Gnome and proprietary nvidia drivers with Compiz enabled or disabled, all is working fine.

I’m using the opensource radeon drivers with an ATI r500 card. Yes, they are probably highly objectable, but I can use only those. It might be a driver bug rather than a bug in NeL though :)

We have to investigate further because with Compiz under Gnome and NVidia driver, it's working fine :)

vbmithr wrote:

I’m using the opensource radeon drivers with an ATI r500 card. Yes, they are probably highly objectable, but I can use only those. It might be a driver bug rather than a bug in NeL though :)

I have a newer ATI, same opensource drivers:

1 - Flickering happens on other games like Enemy Territory and Tremulous. On those, disabling compositing on KDE (Gentoo) solves.
2 - Performance is still an issue on Ryzom. Even setting graphic options to low, it's slow, dropping frames, and oddly, consuming a whole CPU core (seems to be using sofware rendering?)

Please could you post information about your card on the page : http://dev.ryzom.com/wiki/ryzom/OpenGLSupportedExtensions ?

Thanks :)

Did it!

I'm still fighting to keep performance up. I got KMS now, but performance is even slower. Trying to upgrade to dev versions of the drivers, might get better results.

Thanks :)

I suspect NeL to choose a slow GLX Visual :(

Mmm, I'm now playing in windowed mode, around 1280x960. After upgrading drivers and overclocking (:P) I got a slightly better performance, but still it doesn't make sense, should be much better. Well, also I need to point that when I'm playing, one core of my CPU is constantly at 100% use (it is an Athlon 2 X3/4 and it's overclocked to 3300MHz)

kervala, is there some way I can assert this? Some debug info to help out?

Your core at 100% is normal, because Ryzom is forcing the use of only one core to avoid some sync problems.

Please could you try ATI proprietary driver only to compare (and eventually post your glxinfo for it) ?

Typo: "... even on really low resolutions"

UPDATING:

Seems the performance issue was related to low memory on GPU, usign open-source radeon I manually set the memory to be a lot greater (shared 1GB o.O) and no more lags. Still the textures are not being properly displayed =/ Probably because I'm not running DRI2, which has a lot more GL extensions (will try later)

Visible texture issue was solved by setting texture to 128Mb. I just don't see microvegetation and the bloom effect is said to not be supported.¶

Ah yes Ryzom needs at least 128 MB by default (I don't know if 64 MB mode is still working...)

well, last update, enabling KMS (and therefore DRI2) again now and I even hav the bloom effect. But still no microveg and now the shadows are rendered like big darker squares (wrong shape). Performance is great now.

Oh, the card is supposed to have 256Mb, but I think it the texture buffer is set to 50% of that, by default.

The water is also invisible

The bug with water and other shaders parts has been fixed in Hg :)

Hello, I have the Ryzom client uptdated to the last patch (1.11). My system specs are:

- Phenom X6 1055
- 8 Gb ram dd3
- AMD/ATI 5750 with the last Catalyst drivers (11.2)
- OS Ubuntu 10.10

I don't have the flickering isue but I have the bad perfomance problem. I have tested the game with 1650x1080 screen resolution and:

- With and without compiz.
- With and without tear free desktop (new feature with ATI drivers).
- Low, medium and high settings.
- Low (32), medium (64) and high (128) textures.
- With and without VBL Syncro.

The performance is bad in all cases making the game lag continually. Most of the time, after 15-30 min of gaming, it shows a window with a connection problem icon (network problem?) making the game totally unplayable (almost frozen). Sometimes when I enter the world it takes a lot of time to load all the houses, people, landscape etc. meanwhile I see white smoke and people or objects floating until all is loaded, with the network icon and the game frozen.

And to finish, when I log into the game, the character selection screen is totally smooth.

Could it be related to your HDD ? speed ? fragmentation ?

Ryzom is continuously streaming 3d models and textures from data folder.

The HDD (1 TB Seagate) seems to be OK, the SMART says it. Also no problems coping files (larger or not) or playing another demanding games/tasks. I have checked the fragmentation with e2freefrag and filefrag on the partition and the data directory of ryzom and seems to be ok. The HDD doesn't seems to be the problem.

I have noticed that when a big transition happen (day/night) the game get frozen. I have also run the game in the terminal but it doesn't output anything.