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I decided to do a bit of research on overclocling in Linux with no much success. I found a program called nvclock though which you will find as an rpm on the 2006's RPM ftp and the tar files on the

website http://nvclock.sourceforge.net/

 

I had a job to install the 0.8 (unstable) version and had to do make install --disable-qt so it installed only the command line which is easy enought to use.

 

nvclock -s informed me of my current settings of GPU clock and memory :

 

Card: nVidia GeforceFX 5700

Card number: 1

Memory clock: 599.400 MHz

GPU clock: 300.857 MHz

 

Strange start as gigabyte's vtuner (under winfart) gave me 425/550 and according to Tom' s hardware mother of all GPUs (Summer 2005) I should have expected 425/550. (http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/07/05/vga_charts_vii/Apage2.html).

 

So is the kernel deliberatly slowing down my GPU ?

 

 

Then I did a few experiments as follow, keeping an eye on the result with glxgear :

 

 

Memory clock: 551.571 MHz

GPU clock: 300.857 MHz

 

Stef@11:40:01->glxgears

11223 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2244.480 FPS

11280 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2255.870 FPS

11294 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2258.716 FPS

11284 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2256.763 FPS

 

Requested core clock: 350.000 MHz

 

Adjusted low-level clocks on a nVidia GeforceFX 5700

Memory clock: 551.571 MHz

GPU clock: 351.000 MHz

11230 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2245.929 FPS

11289 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2257.734 FPS

11235 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2246.931 FPS

11294 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2258.777 FPS

 

Memory clock: 551.571 MHz

GPU clock: 399.600 MHz

 

Stef@11:42:38->glxgears

11210 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2241.866 FPS

11310 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2261.901 FPS

11285 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2256.873 FPS

11276 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2255.198 FPS

 

Memory clock: 551.571 MHz

GPU clock: 425.250 MHz

 

Stef@11:43:36->glxgears

11155 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2230.853 FPS

11271 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2254.156 FPS

11093 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2218.434 FPS

11271 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2254.183 FPS

Memory clock: 599.400 MHz

GPU clock: 300.857 MHz

 

 

12074 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2414.779 FPS

12200 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2439.905 FPS

12182 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2436.361 FPS

12210 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2441.855 FPS

 

 

Memory clock: 599.400 MHz

GPU clock: 351.000 MHz

 

Stef@11:45:32->glxgears

12081 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2416.165 FPS

12202 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2440.226 FPS

12191 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2438.178 FPS

12207 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2441.365 FPS

 

Memory clock: 550.800 MHz

GPU clock: 425.250 MHz

 

Stef@11:46:28->glxgears

11218 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2243.523 FPS

11244 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2248.716 FPS

11183 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2236.471 FPS

11255 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2250.824 FPS

 

Memory clock: 607.500 MHz

GPU clock: 425.250 MHz

12245 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2448.891 FPS

12309 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2461.684 FPS

12309 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2461.731 FPS

12306 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2461.174 FPS

 

 

 

My chosen tuning is therefore (to be on the safe side) 425/600 for which I obtain a score of 30.6 fps on the doom3 demo1 usecache benchmark.

 

I would be happy to hear about anyone having tried anything similar and explain to me the lack of impact of tuning up the cpu compared to tuning up the memory.

 

My system = FX5700 128Mb in an ideq210v DDRam 2x512 @ 2700 and a couple of big hard drives. The cooling is performed by a DIY fan/extractor.

 

Cheers!

 

[moved from Games by spinynorman]

 

All solved!

 

I recently tried Suse 10 on my machine. I have been with mandriva based machine for a year and I must say each I do a new install (10.1 -> LE-2005 -> 2006) I have to do the manip involving dowloading the driver from nvidia then do telinit 3 then sh NV... then use vi to modify to files etc...

Not that interesting in itself and a bit off-putting for the new users who usually want to play games asap...

 

When I intalled suse 10 on one of my partitions, I was really surprised to see that all that had been handled seemelessly by Yast2! Not fun for those who like to play around the shell but really refreshing when you want to get into the core of the distro pretty quicklly.

 

So the Question : is there any plans for you brainy people to developp a extra-tool in drakconf which would make installing the 3d any easier for spring-chicken like me?

 

Cheers

 

Stef

 

[moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman]

Thanks, I tried that as well and same result I m afraid!

 

But! At last it is working fine thanks to the 1.3 patch! All works fine, including nice tweakes which really improve my fps!

 

Stef

sorry :

 

[root@linuxbox stephane]# urpmi aoss

The package(s) are already installed

[root@linuxbox stephane]#

 

anything else i can try please?

 

Hi there,

 

I started to migrate my games (for which I needed windows until recently) to linux. I must admit it is quite a succes. So far I play cold war, doom3 and quake 4.

 

The graphic part of the games work great only limited by my Gfx card (fx 5700 128Mb). The result is great ...

 

BUT

 

On coldwar the sound is great, no problem there. On Quake 4 the sounf is weird, metallic voices and obvious problems (as in it sound not normal), whereas for doom 3 there is no sound at all!

 

I had a good look at the different forums for each game and nothing too specific on my problem. I run mandriva powerpack dvd 2006 and have all my rpms up to date.

 

The message for doom 3 is as follow:

------------------------------------

----------- OSS Sound Initialization -----------

opened sound device '/dev/dsp'

/dev/dsp - bit rate: 16, channels: 2, frequency: 44100

WARNING: mmap 57344 bytes on device /dev/dsp failed: Input/output error

 

close sound device

WARNING: sound subsystem disabled

 

I had a look at my alsamixer and all looks ok except the nob for surround which is on 0 and un-movable.

 

I wonder if anyone had an idea on where else to look into my config to find the bug, probably a problem alsa/oss?

 

Cheers,

 

Stef

 

Works great on madriva 2006 dvd pwr pk. Good game, not that easy but the graphics are excellent!

 

Stef

Well, that seems normal to me so far, you need to log at the adress: 192.168.0.15:1 I suppose and enter your password. Sorry I can t see what is going wrong, as I said I am a new user too!

Stef

Hi there,

I run the LE2005 and am quite a newbie. I try to acces my French news (I leave in UK) to www.tf1.com and europe1.com. When I used to be windoze user (or used by windoze) there was no problem. Konqueror won t let me see the news videos nor listen to radio programs. I have mplayer and its plugins installed, macromedia works fine.

When I click on a videos it says that it s trying to detect my video player, then says that it 's not up to date and do I want to dwnl an update from Mikrospot! errr I don t think so!

 

Any ideas or is streaming not good with Linux?

 

Stef

Well I am a newbie, but I installed vncserver et vncclients, (urpmi...) and I type vncserver in a shell, the first time it will ask u a password . The I go on me laptop which is running windoze (errk) and start vnclient and bob is your uncle...

Stef

Hi, thanx for the fix, i run LE2005 and it worked wonders! I am bak on the chat now.

 

Stef