[Linux] Extremely bad performance

BarbariandudeBarbariandude Romania Join Date: 2013-12-12 Member: 190030Members
edited December 2013 in Technical Support
Hi guys,

As the title says, I'm experiencing atrociously bad FPS (27 in the options menu, 20 in marine spawn, 15 in the alien spawn, less than 10 in a fight), frequent freezes and frequent crashes, as well as the occasional garbled audio. I have every possible option set to lowest, I turned off multithreading (and then switched it back on as it had no effect), I even switched my desktop environment to LXDE to maybe eke out a few more frames, to no avail.

I can run Metro: Last Light at a playable framerate, and every other game in my steam library perfectly. At this point, all I can think of is that Unknown World's OpenGL implementation is less than ideal.

#uname -a:
3.11.0-14-generic #21-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 12 17:04:55 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

#glxinfo:
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4

#glxgears:
52395 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10478.891 FPS

Nvidia driver version: 331.20

Graphics card: GeForce GT540m (using nvidia-prime to avoid optimus craziness)

CPU: intel core i7

EDIT: Oh god how could I have missed it... I managed to get it up to 50 FPS on the marine side and 30 FPS on the alien side with a single change to nvidia-settings: Under "OpenGL Settings", switching to slider all the way from "High Quality" to "High Performance". When the hell did I do that? I don't remember doing it... Anyways, my utmost apologies.

Comments

  • Ghosthree3Ghosthree3 Join Date: 2010-02-13 Member: 70557Members, Reinforced - Supporter
    I believe it's due to the card being far from a gaming card. A X60 card is the lowest I'd personally go to play modern games. However I'm sure there's some things you can do to squeeze some more performance out, have you tried lowering the res below native (gross I know) this is the greatest way to improve fps from a gpu bottleneck.
  • MazzaMazza Join Date: 2010-11-22 Member: 75194Members, Reinforced - Onos
    Try downgrading to 319.32 or 319.60.
    I tried 331.20 earlier and was having LOTS of crashing issues. I did notice that I got an increase of 10 FPS in the menu though which is a good sign.

    I've just rolled back to 319.32 (recommended driver for Mint 16 - 64bit)
  • AARON45AARON45 lhr Join Date: 2013-12-13 Member: 190040Members
    Hi good luck man and thanks for sharing this post with us.
  • CyberzCyberz Sweden Join Date: 2013-12-15 Member: 190110Members
    Did u turn off sync to vblank i nvidia settings?

    Then I think the game need more optimization for Linux!
    Played 6h yesterday.
  • IronHorseIronHorse Developer, QA Manager, Technical Support & contributor Join Date: 2010-05-08 Member: 71669Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, Forum Moderators, NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Subnautica Playtester, Subnautica PT Lead, Pistachionauts
    Thanks for posting your fix, OP
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