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Vertical Sync.
Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 6:47 pm
by Saboteur
Hi, hello, aloha and all those greetings...
- Linux Question ]
How do I put 'Vertical Synchronizer" off in Linux... All damn games laggs
etc. Quake2+mods, Quake3 and Doomsday.
(thread connected to Aq2)
Slackware 10.1 + Fluxbox
Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 8:24 pm
by aztecx
your graphics card should have an option. It probably isnt vsync its gonna be anti-aliasing and anti-f (cant remember what its called).
turn all of them off including vsync and no more fps lag
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 4:53 pm
by NRGizeR
Not at my linux box right now, so I'm not 100% certain... but try
nvidia-settings
(or nvidia-configure, or something like that
) that is if you're using an nvidia card, if not, I don't have a clue.
The setting you'd want to change is "sync to vblanc" for opengl, I'd say that this is by default off. I use sync to vblanc because I feel my aq2 performance in linux got lots better with it on.
Oh, and you need to set this every time you reboot (there was a switch that you can use to just load your settings and add that to your startup script... try nvidia-settings --help...)
Hope that makes some sense
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 8:55 pm
by aztecx
with all that shit on, in a gun fight my aq2 drops to like 30 fps.
Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 8:27 am
by NRGizeR
vsync (or sync to vblanc) just means that the FPS will be synced with the refreshrate of the monitor... so if you're using a reasonably fast refresh rate on your monitor, the only thing you should notice when turning it ON is that it will be smoother... lots smoother... I myself use 102Hz @ 1152x768 in linux, so I can't say my FPS are too bad (also 102)
AA and other
image enhancing options will decrease your FPS to produce a better quality image. Don't confuse the concepts here, because VSYNC and AA doesn't have anything in common