Re: What Athlon chipset is most stable in Linux?

[Paul G. Allen]

"David S. Miller" wrote:
> 
>    From: Dan Hollis <[e-mail]>
>    Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 19:11:56 -0800 (PST)
> 
>    BTW this bug apparently doesnt affect AMD760MP as I am able to use
>    geforce2 with quake and unreal tournament for hours straight without any
>    problems.
> 
> What is your quake3 com_maxfps set to?  By default it is 85, and
> that can hide the bug.  Set it to 130 or something like that.
> 
> Just bring down the quake3 console (with ') and type
> 
> /com_maxfps 130
> 
> Try that for a while.
> 
> I'm rather sure the AMD761 problems are motherboard vendor
> independant, because I have 2 systems so far, using totally different
> AMD761 based motherboards, which both hang pretty reliably with AGP.
> 

My dual Tyan runs Q3A, UT, and Tribes 2 at over 100fps at times with no problems UNLESS I enable DMA for the IDE drive. Q3a will go above 130fps (map and game
dependent), UT will go even higher, and Tribes 2 will hit right around 140fps if I'm in a room (any outdoor areas slow WAY down).

I am running 2.4.9ac10 with a few minor tweaks, agpgart slightly tweaked compiled in, and a tweaked Detonator 3 nVidia driver. I plan to upgrade all these soon
and see what happens.

My A7V133 however is crap when it comes to playing games. It's been demoted to straight server duty. :)

PGA
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