On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 18:03, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > I'm experiencing periodic sluggishness when I play 3d games like Unreal > Tournament (natively) and Max Payne (WineX). It's not a framerate > problem, because there's no choppiness, it's periodic (a minute of > slowness, a couple minutes of normal, a couple of slow, et c.), and > there's no apparent relation to the complexity of the action when it > happens. The effect is as if the game itself is going into a slow-mo > mode (yes, I know, Max Payne has a slow-mo mode, but that's not what's > going on here). > > I have a new Dell 5150 with an nVidia GeForce FX 5200 using the latest > nVidia-supplied drivers. I don't have any apps running while I'm playing > the games, save for Gnome and its applets and such. > > Does anyone have any clue what could be the problem here?
Can you ssh in from another system, and run top(1) in P mode? Maybe some intermittent process is jumping in. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny." Thomas Jefferson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
