sorry for getting on this ?. actually it turned out to be my HD, the 
throughput was aweful buffered-disk read something like 64mb @ 11.70sec @ 
6.40mb a/sec and that was tweaking it using hdparm. But she gave out last 
night and i had to go buy a new one so now the throughput reads:

/dev/hdb:
 Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  0.67 seconds =191.04 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  3.00 seconds = 21.33 MB/sec

so everything is flying now, and that is without any tweaks. and with this 
breakthrough i havent been in winblows to game for, going on 3 weeks now.
thanks for the response i was beginning to think, Tis was a silly question.

slr

On Thursday 12 July 2001 05:25 pm, Brian Cluff wrote:
> Hmmm, I have a similar setup, but with a much slower processer (333) and 3D
> stuff in general just flies with no lags at all.
>
> My guess would be that you dont actually have the 3d acceleration running
> right,  although I don't think SOF will run at all without it.
> So my next guess would be that either your CDROM or hard drive isn't
> getting the information fast enough.  With SOF, the only lag that I saw was
> durring the intro, but that was on an even slower machine that I have at
> work, and I think it was due to the size of the video ram not being big
> enough.... do you by chance have yours set fairly low in the XF86Config?
>
> Brian Cluff
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> Could someone give me some info on Getting more performance out of X.
>
> My Hardware Config is a:
>
> PIII 800EB overclock to 888
> Asus V7700 GeForce2 GTS 64mb DDR
> RAM: 512MB PC133
>
> UT runs great but Q3 and SOF tend to lag a bit, any help would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> slr
>
>
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