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On January 12, 2019 7:00:19 AM Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Howdy, |
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> As some know, I recently bought a video card. While not the most modern |
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> thing, it is a lot faster than my old one. I have a question tho. When |
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> I'm watching TV and playing a video with Smplayer, high resolution or a |
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> medium resolution, it seems to use a good bit of CPU power. I notice in |
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> gkrellm, htop etc that it is using about 20 to sometimes 40 or 50% of |
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> CPU power. Yes, I still have the 8 core CPU in here. In Smplayer, I |
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> have video driver set to "gl(fast)" but have tried other settings as |
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> well. Obviously, some just plain don't work at all. It causes Smplayer |
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> to crash. I did some googling, I think this is the best driver setting |
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> for my card. It is nvidia based. Question, how do I know it is using |
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> the video card to process as much of the video as it is supposed to be |
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> doing? Is there some command I'm not aware of to test this? Here is |
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> some hardware info. |
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> root@fireball / # lspci -k |
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> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107 [GeForce GTX |
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> 650] (rev a1) |
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> Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] GK107 |
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> [GeForce GTX 650] |
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> Kernel driver in use: nvidia |
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> Kernel modules: nvidia_drm, nvidia |
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> root@fireball / # glxinfo |
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> name of display: :0 |
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> display: :0 screen: 0 |
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> direct rendering: Yes |
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> server glx vendor string: SGI |
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> server glx version string: 1.4 |
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> This is what I get with glxgears at full screen. Note, video is playing |
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> on the TV as well, just not on current screen. |
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> root@fireball / # glxgears |
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> 311 frames in 5.0 seconds = 62.133 FPS |
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> 306 frames in 5.0 seconds = 61.123 FPS |
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> 311 frames in 5.0 seconds = 62.154 FPS |
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> 312 frames in 5.0 seconds = 62.217 FPS |
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> 309 frames in 5.0 seconds = 61.619 FPS |
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> 307 frames in 5.0 seconds = 61.265 FPS |
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> 315 frames in 5.0 seconds = 62.936 FPS |
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> XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0" |
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> after 13277 requests (13277 known processed) with 0 events remaining. |
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> root@fireball / # |
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What X driver are you using? Nouveau or the proprietary nvidia one? Your |
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glxinfo suggests neither and you should get way higher fps with glxgears on |
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either, but most especially with the proprietary one. |
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Personally, I tried Nouveau for a while, but found it unstable on KDE |
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plasma - kept locking up - but I know plasma tries to run everything |
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accelerated. Also the proprietary one is way faster for gaming. |
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> Thanks. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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