Low Framerate in Oblivion

[valente500]

I've been getting max 10 FPS in Oblivion, even with extremely low graphics settings. Any ideas why? I didn't have any problems with running Oblivion on Windows, and even for Wine this seems quite low. I think it might be my graphics card drivers possibly.

OS: Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic
GPU: nVidia 8600M GT
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2 GHz
GPU Driver: Version 195 (I got it by going System -> Administration -> Hardware Drivers, and then Enabling it).
Wine Version: 1.2

I also read somewhere that ubuntu-restricted-extras might be affecting it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[James McKenzie]

valente500 wrote:

I've been getting max 10 FPS in Oblivion, even with extremely low graphics settings. Any ideas why? I didn't have any problems with running Oblivion on Windows, and even for Wine this seems quite low. I think it might be my graphics card drivers possibly.

OS: Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic
GPU: nVidia 8600M GT
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2 GHz
GPU Driver: Version 195 (I got it by going System -> Administration -> Hardware Drivers, and then Enabling it).

What is the subversion?

Wine Version: 1.2

Amount of available RAM might also affect game play.

James McKenzie

[valente500]

Subversion is 195.36.15, and I have 3 gB of RAM.

I didn't have any framerate issues with Oblivion running on Windows, so I don't think my computer specs are a problem.

If this helps, these are the currently installed nvidia packages:

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$ aptitude search '~i' | grep nvidia
i   nvidia-173-modaliases           - Modaliases for the NVIDIA binary X.Org dri
i   nvidia-185-modaliases           - Modaliases for the NVIDIA binary X.Org dri
i A nvidia-195-kernel-source        - NVIDIA binary kernel module source        
i   nvidia-195-modaliases           - Modaliases for the NVIDIA binary X.Org dri
i   nvidia-96-modaliases            - Modaliases for the NVIDIA binary X.Org dri
i   nvidia-common                   - Find obsolete NVIDIA drivers              
i   nvidia-glx-195                  - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver                 
i A nvidia-settings                 - Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics dr

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[valente500]

Wow, I disabled compiz effects and the framerate has increased five-fold ( I didn't even know I had compiz on :S )

[James McKenzie]

valente500 wrote:

Wow, I disabled compiz effects and the framerate has increased five-fold ( I didn't even know I had compiz on :S )

It is a real 'frame sucker'. We always recommend turning it off when
using Wine/playing games.

James McKenzie