P3 linux Laptop works better then P4 Desktop in Sauer?

by Forty two on 11/23/2008 03:04, 3 messages, last message: 12/01/2008 00:44, 983 views, last view: 04/27/2024 15:10

Hi, I am using a Pentium III 799MHZ dell laptop with some 16mb shared memory intel graphics chip, dual booting with Kubuntu 7.10 & Winshit XP.
My Desktop, a Pentium 4 2.4ghz W/ Geforce 5500FX and Windows, lags worse then my craptop.
Kubuntu results:
16FPS Metl4-style levels w/ shaders.
60FPS constant on a newmap, drops to 20 while viewing a lot of stuff.
16mb SDram Graphics chip, again.

Windows XP Desktop:
5fps Metl4-style levels w/ shaders
25fps empty newmap, drops to <5 when I add stuff.
256mb Geforce 5500FX.

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by kurtis84 on 11/23/2008 03:14

Sounds like it's a driver issue...a 5500 is about the bottom of the barrel to run sauer anyway. You should be disabling the shaders, as that card will not really handle all the goodies the drivers allow it to attempt.

I'm fairly certain that intel chipset driver won't allow the full shader effects, which would help it run faster than the 5500 could with all the goodies enabled by default.

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by Hirato Kirata on 11/23/2008 10:10

it's as kurtis said, it's a driver issue, I'm surprised it even ran and didn't crash after a few seconds

install the drivers from http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_175.19_whql.html specifically and um.. hope for the best :P

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by Forty two on 12/01/2008 00:44

Kurtis, my chipset is displaying all the shader effects, everything but the full screen FX like bloom and invert work.

Hirato, those are the drivers I am using.

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