Gutsy Users!

[e30G]

Two questions:

1) How is your ping? My ping has gone from a 400 average to over 1000. I think its server side, but is there an off-chance that it's because of Gutsy?

2) Did the graphics change for you? The game is a little fuzzy now for me. It's not bad, in fact I kinda like it. Probably because of newer NVIDIA drivers?

Other than that, the game is performing just as well (framerate-wise) as it did for me when I was on Feisty.

[DkySven]

It works very good. I can finally have the new ATI drivers.

[NightTwix]

fuzzy graphics? dont really know what you mean

and the 500-1000 ping is serversided when 600+ users are around

[pheen]

Works perfectly fine for me, better than in feisty.

[e30G]

fuzzy graphics? dont really know what you mean

and the 500-1000 ping is serversided when 600+ users are around

It now has some Gaussian blur on it compared to the sharper graphics from Feisty. I think I kinda like it when you are looking from afar, however I do miss some of the detail it used to have. I'm not sure if its because to a newer driver or to some graphic settings that changed with this new (game) installation.

[daflear]

hey galynn, same for me here... try using envy, it helped a bit

[e30G]

Yo Milk! Sorry bit of a noob here, what is envy?

[Anpu]

Envy is some kind of script program, wriiten in python by some guy which can set your graphics automatically. it works good for nvidia, but not so good for ati (i tried). here is link:
http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html

[e30G]

I just learned the Gaussian effect is caused by post process. Turning it off made the graphics sharper but I lost some fps so I'm leaving it on for now. At least I can run a slightly higher view distance without losing too much frames now :)

[Myxir]

In our clan someone got more FPS by killing the process tracker.

[Caydel]

Two questions:

1) How is your ping? My ping has gone from a 400 average to over 1000. I think its server side, but is there an off-chance that it's because of Gutsy?

2) Did the graphics change for you? The game is a little fuzzy now for me. It's not bad, in fact I kinda like it. Probably because of newer NVIDIA drivers?

Other than that, the game is performing just as well (framerate-wise) as it did for me when I was on Feisty.

1. Ping is 150-2000, depending on the time of day and the player load.

2. This is the Post-Processing, and you mentioned. I have noticed, though, that the game becomes extremely unstable when used in conjunction with Gutsy's desktop effects. I mean, more unstable then usual - the linux client has never been 'stable' for me!

[DuoMaxwell]

Kill the compiz stuff, all games reacted badly with it on, as good as the effects are they still have the issue of killing the playability of games.

Going from 80Fps to 10 in a game like sauerbraten is very bad.

[e30G]

I heard changing the priority of the game through "nice" can improve the performance a lot. I tried it and it does. How do I make it run at -15 automatically whenever I run the game? Thanks!

[klixon]

i dont know how you start it, but you could put this in /home/<user>/bin and put that directory in you path.
#!/bin/bash
RODIR=/path/to/regnum
cd ${RODIR}
xterm -e sudo nice -n -15 ./rolauncher
and chmod u+x ~/bin/filename
I haven't tested it yet, but i'm pretty sure it should work...
The reason for xterm is you have to run negative nice as root, so sudo will ask for a password... this way you can enter it and still start this laucher-file from a menu or whatever your DE/WM uses ;)
You can also visudo in your user to be able to run nice without using a password. Then you don't need the "xterm -e" part

[NightTwix]

im certain that its a bad idea to run stuff like games with nice -15.
but i cant fund it right now.

[Myxir]

I made the experience that it is bad to nice games.
Imagine this:
Game is starting to bug. It has a nice value of -15 which is very very high priority. It will be benefited by the CPU. Now the game is starting to bug. You won't have a chance to change to tty or the desktop. Everything lags and the only solution is the reboot. You even cannot move your mouse smoothly.

[saxtro]

this workaround suck a lot

1) run a game with nice 15
2) run a game with uid 0

:thumb_down:

on windows i can accept this (not really)