[aros-games] Re: Low memory conditions in nouveau

  • From: Tomasz Bąk <tomekbak79@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: aros-games@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:58:39 +0200

Unfortunately, my aros drive dies. Currently it is not even detected
by the motherboard. I have to install a system from scratch on another
disk. It will take me probably a few days.


2011/9/20 Krzysztof Smiechowicz <deadwood@xxxxx>:
> That's great. One user is reporting stability problems in 2D with latest
> nouveau on NV50 card. Can you test your new card the same way he is doing?
>
> http://aros-exec.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=59491#forumpost59491
>
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof
>
> W dniu 20.09.2011 16:47, Tomasz Bąk pisze:
>>
>> It's really great news.
>>
>> BTW, i just bought GF8600GT for around 10 euros. I do some performance
>> test soon :)
>>
>> Cheers
>> Tomek
>>
>> 2011/9/19 Krzysztof Smiechowicz<deadwood@xxxxx>:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> When I was porting Cube 2 / AssaultCube some of you were reporting that
>>> you
>>> get screen corruption during game play. I attributed this to running out
>>> of
>>> VRAM, but I was not able to prove it.
>>>
>>> Now, with new version of nouveau.hidd and SysMon this can be checked.
>>>
>>> Download from here (be sure to have Mesa 19.0 installed)
>>>
>>> http://download.aros3d.org/gallium/2011-09-19/nouveau-6.2.zip
>>>
>>> Install the driver, reboot, start new SysMon, go to System tab. There you
>>> will see your current VRAM and GART.
>>>
>>> Start some games/maps there were giving you problems and observer as the
>>> values decrease. Please report if you get screen corruption and if yes,
>>> at
>>> which level of VRAM/GART.
>>>
>>> NOTE: NV50+ owners will not see GART free value.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Krzysztof
>>>
>>>
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