X needs 99% CPU with gravitywars on radeon 9200

[Michel Dänzer]

On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 19:36 +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote: 
> 
> I've tried to run gravitywars on with Xorg on my radeon 9200 card.
> 
> With this setup, X eats 99% of the CPU and gravitywars is left with
> 1%. In this case the game is not playable.
> 
> With Xfree from Debian Sid, the game fares better with about 55% CPU
> for X and 45% for granvitywars. (Even though
> 
> I've verified that hardware acceleration works fine: I get about 1500
> fps with glxgears (and tuxracer is playable).

Does Option "XaaNoScanlineImageWriteRect" work around the problem?

> Does anyone have similar problems with gravitywars (or SDL) with xorg
> or radeon cards ?

I think gravitywars could deal better with the X server not keeping up.


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