Best (or worst) hardware/driver combinations for Linux (was Ubuntu)

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I'm currently trying to play Satellite Reign with a AMD 9750 Quad-Core / GeForce GTX 550 Ti machine running Ubuntu 14.04. No, it's not a zippy fast gaming rig, and yes, I expect it to be slow. At minimal resolution and detail getting 4-6 FPS seems a little rough though. I'm going to try a similar vintage of AMD-based video card next and see if I get any better results.

Satellite Reign seems to only be using one core, which I thought was odd.

I've seen several mentions of performance issues in other posts, and that things aren’t "optimised" yet, but I haven't seen much as far as recommendations or warnings about specific graphic cards/GPUs to avoid, or that have been tested, and are working well.

Anyone have any concrete examples of what does, or doesn't, work well using the latest release of Satellite Reign?

[xXx_swat21_xXx]

Publicado originalmente por MikeC:

On the Nvidia side, the 331 drivers are getting a bit old, if you can stomach it, you might want to try the xorg-edgers PPA. As a comparison, on Arch I have the 343.22 driver at the moment.

Excellent - thank you for the tip! I went for the latest - why not eh?


sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-cache search "NVIDIA binary driver"
sudo apt-get install nvidia-346

Installing now...

[DrZann]

Publicado originalmente por steffan.watkins:

Publicado originalmente por DrZann:

That card only supports OpenGL 2.0 so that will probably be a no go.

The NVIDIA Corporation G96 GeForce 9400 GT (rev a1) supports OpenGL 2.1 (didn't crash)... damn, that shoots that theory...

That's quite right, but according to the minimum specs the game supports 1GB NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT which is OpenGL 2.1. I don't know if there is enough of a difference between 2.0 and 2.1 to matter but it's something to consider.

[xXx_swat21_xXx]

Now running the 340.65 driver, I couldn't get 346 to work. I don't notice much of a difference, if any, re: frame rates.

With 331.113 drivers it seemed to start the game around 15fps and slowly move down; when I last quit I was down to ~9-10fps.

I ran the nVidia performance monitor earlier with 331 Drivers; the GPU isn't being taxed at all, it waflles between 30-50% and I even added back some detail to get it to that level. I was playing in Windowed mode 1600x900 so I could keep an eye on the nVidia performance monitor. It looks like one of my CPU cores is pinned tho - I'm still concerned that this isn't dividing tasks between cores AFAIK.

[The Holy Ghost - Its Fight Night]

Publicado originalmente por Creadoris:

Have you tried using Windows 7? (not Win8 as it is rubbish).
That is a winning driver combination.

Windows 8 is great. Only those who cannot accept change still use 7. I am guessing you tried 8 and started crying as soon as you couldn't find your precious start menu.

Jokes

In all honesty windows 7 and 8 are both great. 8 has some extra features I use quite alot that normly I would have to download seperate apps for, and when you get used to it, everything is slightly faster to access, even without a touchscreen. But 7 uses slightly less system resources and is still very good, so... depends if you have a nice rig or not as to which is best for you.

[Stone Chipper]

Publicado originalmente por =UGB= Crixus:

Publicado originalmente por Creadoris:

Have you tried using Windows 7? (not Win8 as it is rubbish).
That is a winning driver combination.

Windows 8 is great. Only those who cannot accept change still use 7. I am guessing you tried 8 and started crying as soon as you couldn't find your precious start menu.

Jokes

In all honesty windows 7 and 8 are both great. 8 has some extra features I use quite alot that normly I would have to download seperate apps for, and when you get used to it, everything is slightly faster to access, even without a touchscreen. But 7 uses slightly less system resources and is still very good, so... depends if you have a nice rig or not as to which is best for you.

I use Win 8 with pokki menu. But a prefered 7.

8 feels too much like it is trying to cater to every device on the planet. Tablets, phones etc. 7 was at least made with PC soley in mind.

Anyway. Don't want to de-rail the thread.

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To sum up, so far...

AMD/ATI Radeon HD 6870 w/radeon drivers on Ubuntu 14 crashed per @ninjaec
AMD/ATI Radeon HD 5770 w/unknown drivers on Ubuntu 14.04 crashed per @steffan.watkins
AMD/ATI Radeon HD 4650 w/unknown drivers on Ubuntu 14.04 crashed per @steffan.watkins

nVidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti w/nVidia 331 and 340 drivers on Ubuntu 14.04 works per @steffan.watkins
nVidia GeForce 9400 GT w/nVidia 331 drivers on Ubuntu 14.04 works per @steffan.watkins
nVidia GeForce 770 GTX w/nVidia 343.22 drivers on XFCE 4.10 works per @sigz
nVidia GeForce 660 Ti w/nVidia 343.22-r2 drivers on Gentoo Linux works per @norg
nVidia unknown card w/nVidia 340.65 driver on Linux Mint 17 64bit works per @opcode666
nVidia unknown card w/nVidia 340 drivers on Linux works per @norsfyr


Naib; what are you running?

[MikeC]

I can confirm that GTX 970 works fine with Arch and 343.22 drivers under KDE. I have a system kicking around with a GTX 460 with Ubuntu and 331 drivers under LXDE, if the devs need another sample point, but that card beats the 9400GT so I'd imagine it will work, if slowly.

[xXx_swat21_xXx]

Unless my math is off, there isn't anyone running a Linux variant with an ATI who's playing SR; is that right?

[MikeC]

I haven't seen it yet. But we would need to confirm with both proprietary and open source drivers for ATI. Also, no open source nVidia users or Intel users.

[xXx_swat21_xXx]

I'll put back in my ATI Radeon HD 5770 and try all the drivers I can find.

[xXx_swat21_xXx]

(it would be nice if a developer could tell me not to bother if they already know none of them work tho...)

[xXx_swat21_xXx]

The ATI Radeon HD 5770 worked! <10fps, but it worked!

I switched to the proprietary AMD/ATI drivers from the Open Source drivers, and while doing so, it looks like I switched from using OpenGL 3.3 to OpenGL 4.3!

Before:
$ sudo lspci -k|grep -A 2 VGA

02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Juniper XT [Radeon HD 5770]
	Subsystem: PC Partner Limited / Sapphire Technology Device 1482
	Kernel driver in use: radeon

$ glxinfo | grep OpenGL

OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD JUNIPER
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 10.1.3
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 3.30
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 10.1.3
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL extensions:

After:
$ sudo lspci -k|grep -A 2 VGA

02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Juniper XT [Radeon HD 5770]
	Subsystem: PC Partner Limited / Sapphire Technology Device 1482
	Kernel driver in use: fglrx_pci

$ glxinfo | grep OpenGL

OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: AMD Radeon HD 5700 Series
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.3.12798 Core Profile Context 13.35.1005
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.30
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 4.3.12798 Compatibility Profile Context 13.35.1005
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL profile mask: compatibility profile
OpenGL extensions:

[Naib]

@steffan.watkins 40fps at high detail is fine.

Your one-liners are using UUOC and can be simplified. There are actually better ways to extract that infomation ( I have a complete one-liner that I use for HeroesOfNEwerth techsupport)





That said I have posted infomation on this (the main issue is the texture) on the main forums.

I have just added some additional infomation as well



http://satellitereign.com/forums/topic/linux-problems/page/2/#post-4423

[xXx_swat21_xXx]

Well @Naib, feel free to share your one liner; I know mine wasn't elegant, and I would like a simple copy & paste-able "get graphic card info" to aid in building a list of what is/isnt working.

I think my subsequent use of

sudo lspci -k|grep -A 2 VGA

and

glxinfo | grep OpenGL

was more skillful and not a UUOC ;)

I'm more excited that ATI cards aren't hopelessly broken and using the proprietary driver seems to work.

[Naib]

yes it was :)



Try this:


echo "### OGL info ###";glxinfo | grep -i "opengl renderer\|profile version\|profile shading\|direct rendering"; echo "### CPU/RAM info ###"; grep -m 1 "model name" /proc/cpuinfo; free -h; echo "### OS Info ###"; uname -a





### OGL info ###
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GTX 560/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.4.0 NVIDIA 346.22
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.40 NVIDIA via Cg compiler
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.1 NVIDIA 346.22
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.10
### CPU/RAM info ###
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 870 @ 2.93GHz
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7.8G 1.6G 3.5G 92M 2.7G 6.0G
Swap: 0B 0B 0B
### OS Info ###
Linux FluidMotion 3.18.1-gentoo #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Dec 22 22:49:54 GMT 2014 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 870 @ 2.93GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux