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From: Eric Augustus <shrike@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Bad performance on doom3 with alsa and oss
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 04:49:47
Message-Id: 20060115044802.GB32141@shrike.austin.rr.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Bad performance on doom3 with alsa and oss by Etienne Imguimbert
1 On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 09:34:32AM +0100, Etienne Imguimbert wrote:
2 > Dear gentoo amd64 users
3 >
4 > I've installed doom3 via the emerge command, and I have several
5 > problems of performance. I tried several configurations:
6 >
7 > - when I switch to alsa in doom3, I get very noisy sounds (I get
8 > several messages of rejected packets by alsa in the shell)
9 >
10
11 You could try changing to the alsa PCM setting, "seta s_alsa_pcm" to
12 "surround51" or anything else besides "default" in your DoomConfig.cfg. I
13 had issues with the default setting on my setup and switched. Now I get
14 pretty decent sound.
15
16 > - when I switch to oss, I get huge slowdowns in the game (I think
17 > there is a problem with the OSS emulation by alsa)
18 >
19 > - when playing timedemo demo1 in the doom3 prompt, I get a good number
20 > of fps (about 60), but this benchmark is played without sound, so I
21 > deduce that I have problem with sounds.
22 >
23
24 The demo is not supposed to have sound.
25
26
27 --
28 Eric Augustus
29 shrike@×××××××××.com
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31 For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.
32 -- Larry Wall in <199710221710.KAA24242@××××.org>
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