UT2003 Linux Crawling

[szero]

Hey help me out here. I just installed UT2003 on Slackware Linux 8.1 (2.4.20 Kernel). My system specs are in my sig, and I'm using the latest drivers for each of them.

Now, no matter what setting I have my UT2003 on, I average under 15fps. I've tried high, I've tried middle, I've tried minimal. This is horrible because I average over 100fps on Windows. What's the problem!?!?! I don' t want to have to restart into Windows everytime I want to play a game.

Please help.
Thanks.

[redcape]

I improved my performance quite a bit by editing the config and drastically reducing the number of sound channels. (I've got a Sound Blaster Live also.)

I have heard that ATI's drivers are pretty poor. Do you get decent performance in other games? In glxgears?

There is mailing list run by icculus, the programmer of UT2003, where they might be better at helping you, and will be interested if you have found a bug in UT2003. Email ut2003-subscribe@icculus.org.

[szero]

Yeah, ATI's drivers are horrible for Linux. They performed five times better on Redhat, but I can't stand Redhat ;). Quake 3 performs extremely well on Linux. GLXGears performance is pretty sad (~1200). But yeah, I'll try editing those config files.

[redcape]

I get 1200 glxgears with my Geforce 2. And I also get 20 fps in UT2003. So I think the problem is your drivers. Are you sure they are installed properly, and you do not have any Mesa drivers hanging around (do 'glxinfo')?

[szero]

drivers are installed as right as posible

[richard_haggath]

then i am afraid it sounds like the card is just not well supported. i have a geforce 3 with athlon 1800 and soundblaster live with 256 meg ram and i get a glx score of between 3500 and 4000 and believe me when i say that UT 2003 runs much better and faster than on windows with the same hardware. just ensure the drivers are upto date and really are installed correctly thirdly ensure hardware acceleration is enabled in your graphic card properties.:D

[richard_haggath]

i run SuSE 8.1 which i must admit is probably better supprted for this type of hardware.

[Lemming]

UT2003 on Linux is.... weird

From what I'm hearing there is no consistancy in what people get for framerates, with people who use fsat 2ghz machines scoring lower then people using slower machines.

I for one am getting between 30 and 40fps on my, fairly new system (Athlon XP2400+, 512mb DDR RAM, GF4 Ti4200 128mb). Yet I hear of people who have much lower rated systems with higher frame rates :confused:

[richard_haggath]

even though you have drivers installed ensure they are 3d drivers many distro's ship with "dummy drivers" which need to be updated to use 3d enhancements:rolleyes:

[saturn-vk]

run UT2003 without a window manager, it will boost performance significantly. also type glxinfo and make sure direct rendering is on.