OpenGL Issue Screen stuttering after each second in 3d game <Resolved>

Jstuck044 · 2009-09-17 00:43:02

Hey everyone,
Everything is going perfectly with my #! install except for this irritating issue that im having with the 3d rendering. Basically whats happening is that it seems with any 3d game that I play, the screen will consistently stutter after every second (I timed it in tyr-quake and assault cube). I took a look all over the wik and google and tried every suggestion that I found from upgrading and downgrading various drivers to adding different combinations in my xorg.conf but to no avail... This hasn't happened in any other distro Ive used so it's a mystery why its happening with #!.... So my question is, would anyone happen to have any suggestions for removing the stuttering issue?

Here is some information that may help...

Lspci Output

 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 82)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:0a.0 Communication controller: Agere Systems V.92 56K WinModem (rev 03)
01:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

Current Packages used:

 Xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.6.3-0ubuntu9   
 libdrm-intel1  2.4.12-1ubuntu1
 libgl1-mesa-dri   7.5-1ubuntu1
 libgl1-mesa-glx   7.5-1ubuntu1

Kernel used:

2.6.28-13-generic

If anyone needs any other information to formulate a solution, let me know.... Thank you smile

Last edited by Jstuck044 (2009-09-29 03:35:24)

anonymous · 2009-09-17 01:24:37

Try the suggestions here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1130582

Jstuck044 · 2009-09-17 02:12:55

Hey anonymous, thank you for the suggestion.... I followed the guide through but most of the suggestions didnt work..... I installed the updated kernel which I didn't try before but I lost direct rendering as a result... A look at the logs revealed that the xserver is falling back to software rendering as it tried to load the "i915" module but couldn't.. I was able to manually load the "i810" and "drm" modules but the xserver would not recognize them and insisted on loading "i915" instead....

So, would there be way to make the xserver load the "i810" module (so I can see if the original issue is gone) or would there be anything else that I can try that would solve the stuttering issue?

Jstuck044 · 2009-09-26 23:00:08

Okay, I downgraded the kernel (as in downgrading to the intrepid version) to see if it was a issue with the i915 module but that hasnt solved anything.... Im gonna look into the mtrr bug workaround and see if that solves anything.... Im also going to try and install pure debian lenny packages of mesa and the dri modules ( opengl worked perfectly on mepis antix, why not try those packages on crunchbang? )

iggykoopa · 2009-09-27 08:33:38

you could try downloading a 9.10 livecd and see if it works better for you there. My intel card in my mini performs much better in 9.10, if it works then you just need to wait for phillip to put out a 9.10 version big_smile

Jstuck044 · 2009-09-28 13:48:36

Hey iggykoopa,

I would try that but I dont have any blank cds left and I like to use stable software wink
I tried using the pure debian mesa packages but it didnt go over too well (something about glx_visual).. Ill try ripping the out the modules themselves from a live antix session and putting them into #!....

iggykoopa · 2009-09-28 15:26:38

hmm I don't think the antix stuff would work well in #!. you could try the xorg testing ppa here https://launchpad.net/~sarvatt/+archive/xorg-testing it isn't stable but you won't have to upgrade the whole system, and if it doesn't run well for you you can just remove the ppa and revert back to the old packages.

Jstuck044 · 2009-09-29 00:06:38

iggykoopa wrote:

hmm I don't think the antix stuff would work well in #!. you could try the xorg testing ppa here https://launchpad.net/~sarvatt/+archive/xorg-testing it isn't stable but you won't have to upgrade the whole system, and if it doesn't run well for you you can just remove the ppa and revert back to the old packages.

I found that out the hard way lol..... Okay, Ill give those packages a go and update the thread on the results.... If it works, Great!, hopefully the xserver wont go #! while playing assault cube....

Jstuck044 · 2009-09-29 00:59:04

I tried out the packages that you suggested as well as apply the mtrr patch but it didnt work.... The stuttering is still present unfortunetly......

lnxr0x · 2009-09-29 02:52:57

I had the same issue .. not sure if it's related or not as it sounds like you've done a fair amount of troubleshooting.. but I disabled conky and everything was smooth !!

terminal-->type: killall conky

Jstuck044 · 2009-09-29 03:34:13

Oh my god!!!!!!
I spent a great deal of time trying to figure out the problem and all this time, it was conky that was causing the trouble..... I never thought conky was the culprit until I tried your suggestion and gave glxgears another go.... Stuttering issue was gone at last....

Thank you so much!!!!!
I owe you one lnxrox!!! big_smile

Last edited by Jstuck044 (2009-09-29 03:35:44)

lnxr0x · 2009-09-29 03:39:15

no prob.. I figured since conky was querying system info every second .. couldn't figure out why Quake Live was stuttering !! glad it worked for you !!

Jstuck044 · 2009-09-29 03:51:51

Thats what I figured as well considering that it has to redraw itself.. Its a mystery as to how it causes the 3d rendering to stutter though considering that I never had a problem like that on Antix.... Oh well, anyway, thank you very much and I really owe you one there smile

Oh and I didnt try quake live yet (I am now) but I tested tyrquake and the stuttering was completely gone... Once again, thank you smile

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