Nvidia driver FPS problem

[nullpt]

Hi forum,

I've reinstalled my freebsd desktop and i'm having a little problem.

On my old installation when I ran glxgears I had 33k FPS per 5s but now im only registering 7k FPS.

I've attached glxinfo, xorg.conf and nvidia-settings.

Thanks in advance for the help.

Cheers

FreeBSD kiwi 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Fri May 1 08:49:13 UTC 2009 root@walker.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386

vgapci0@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x030000 card=0x22521682 chip=0x019310de rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Nvidia Corp'
device = 'GeForce 8800 GTS'
class = display
subclass = VGA

Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately 1/16450 the monitor refresh rate.
34590 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6917.839 FPS
26514 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5302.776 FPS
31183 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6236.515 FPS
34532 frames in 5.0 seconds = 6906.370 FPS
37540 frames in 5.0 seconds = 7507.132 FPS

[adamk75]

glxgears is not a benchmark.

Adam

[nullpt]

Hi,

I know glxgears is not a benchmark but 6/7k to 33k is a difference that one can suspect.. I play multiplayer opengl FPS games and i notice some degradation of game performance and some mouse lag..

Thanks

Cheers

[adamk75]

Do you have benchmarks using any of those games showing the performance difference? Can you run nvidia-bug-report.sh and generate a bug report and post it here?

Adam

[BSDMare]

Are you running a Window Manager with Composing turned on? That'll drastically drop your framerate.

[nullpt]

Hi,

Thanks for the input.

This is weird but as of 180.60 nvidia-bug-report.sh is not shipped with the port.

Yes indeed, that's one of the differences. I'm using kde4 now.

PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND
1134 alex 1 46 0 106M 47520K CPU1 1 0:06 4.05% kwin
1627 alex 10 44 0 98044K 83888K ucond 1 0:00 3.66% firefox-bin
1074 alex 1 45 0 363M 30144K select 1 0:07 0.39% Xorg

I think one of the issues was [DirWatch] PollInterval from KDE. Every time it ran i't sucked 50% of CPU. Every now and then I'd feel a lock in the game for 1/3d of a second or smth like that which used annoyed me. I've tuned this parameter and it happens less.

Another thing is the general FPS drop i got from freebsd 7.0/KDE3. I can't recall the version of the driver :\ The system was configured/built exactly as it is now.

When i tried to see why i seemed to have less FPS while gaming i came across this huge drop on glxgears frames and this new message about "Running synchronized to the vertical refresh.", which i think it didn't showed before.

Many thanks

Cheers