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Thanks for the reply, though I still have a few more questions:<br><br>> With 4 gigs ,actually 2 gigs since you're running a 32-bit
program, you could safely leave<br>> datacachesize/heapsize values to
default which is what 521000 or 256000.(?)<br><br>Why do that? I'm increasing it to 1GB instead of using the default (be it 512 or 256), thus I am providing it more room to store things.<br><br><br>> Make sure you have the WM set to Metacity(no effects) not Compiz. So basically<br>> it's fullscreen wthout going fullscreen? ??<br><br>I think I am using Compiz. Under System -> Preferences -> Appearance -> Visual Effects I have it set to Normal. If I set it to none that disables Compiz right? Assuming I do that do I need to reboot the machine or restart X (such as ctrl+alt+bksp) for the performance increases to take effect? Or can I just restart Steam and it will run better without the need to restart anything?<br><br>As far as my windowed mode, I basically played with the -h option to steam until I found that the window fit perfectly on my desktop, between the top and bottom menu bars. Here's a screenshot:<br><br>http://slackbox.homelinux.org/TF2screenshot.jpg<br><br><br>> network congestion(?) or related to running with such a low heapsize probably.<br><br>Highly unlikely. This machine is attached to my 1Gbps router (and yes, it's using a CAT6 cable so I can actually achieve such speeds). My Mac Mini is also wired in (it is my music server, my web server, etc.) and there are a few other laptops sometimes connected. However, the game runs fine in Windows which is on a different partition on this same machine. So why would the network be slow when I boot into Linux but not when I boot into Windows? There is no massive downloading going on -- if anyone were to do that it would be me and not the wife, and certainly I wouldn't download a new ISO or anything while playing. I think I can safely rule this out, especially since like I said, setting the UseGLSL=disabled key in the registy seems to keep the game from choking every few minutes. The problem seems to be more related to the DirectX implementation than networking.<br><br>Also, why do you say I have a low heapsize? If you assume that the default is 256MB then it's four times that size, and double the size of the default if it's 512MB. I got 1048576 by increasing by a factor of 2. Basically, you can start with 2, then 4, then 8, and so on if you want. To be more efficient I started with 32768 (2^15) and doubled it several times until I got the exact number 1048576. You said 256000 or 512000. Notice those are 6 digits in length, my value is 7. Thus, the value I am using is not low; on the contrary it is significantly larger than the values you suggested.<br><br><br>> ORM should be set to fbo to take advantage of the newest
drivers(180.44+)<br>> drivers and your hardware. The RegistryWiki -
http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys<br>> has all the fun Direct3D
settings info.<br><br>It looks like I'm running 180.11 but those are the newest available to me (I'm not compiling the nvidia drivers from source -- just using the ones that Ubuntu offers to me). I did go and set a few more registy keys, including the ORM=fbo as you mentioned. This is currently all of the keys I have set in there (not sure if the DDRender=opengl is really necessary):<br><br>DirectDrawRender = opengl<br>OffScreenRenderingMode = fbo<br>VideoMemorySize = 1024<br>VideoPciVendorID = 0x000010de<br>VideoPciDeviceID = 0x00000611<br><br>I found the vendor and device ID using lspci:<br><br>$ lspci -n | grep 0300<br>01:00.0 0300: 10de:0611 (rev a2)<br><br><br>> > I have installed DirectX 9.0c<br>> <br>> I
don't believe this is really necessary anymore. It seems to cause more
problems than it's worth. In any case, you already have WineD3D(X)
installed from a base wine install. At most you'd have to
download(dll-files.com) the d3dx9_36.dll to d3dx9_40.dlls / Xaudio
stuff to the windows/system32 directory depending on how much the app
complains.<br><br>Hmm...well I'm still a little confused about this. By using the -dxlevel 81 option with Steam I'm forcing it to using DirectX 8.1, so I'm not really using the DirectX 9.0c stuff even though it is installed (like I said, setting -dxlevel 90 worked, but the FPS was maxing out around 10-12...just unplayable).<br><br>According to my registy and winecfg I already have d3dx9_36.dll (set to native) but I do not have 37, 38, 39, or 40. Do I need those?<br><br>Also, I have a d3d8.dll which is set to builtin, a d3d9.dll set to builtin, but then there's a d3dx8.dll set to native. Would it help if I copied over the d3d8.dll and d3d9.dll files from my Windows partition and then set these libraries to native? Sorry, lots of questions I know, but I'm just not that familiar with DirectX.<br><br>I will also try a few more of the steam related tweaks. Who know if they will help or not but I'll sure try.<br><br>-Brandon<br><br><br><br /><hr />Rediscover Hotmail�: Get quick friend updates right in your inbox. <a href='http://windowslive.com/RediscoverHotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Rediscover_Updates2_042009' target='_new'>Check it out.</a></body>
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