Doom 3 is ugly? (linux, 6800GT)


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Hello.

I am currently running gentoo with the lastest nvidia drivers from ~x86 portage, and something seems very wrong with Doom3.

I am running at high detail, 2x antialiasing on a Geforce 6800GT.

On Windows:

http://www.raptorized.com/public_files/d3_.../shot00001.jpeg

http://www.raptorized.com/public_files/d3_.../shot00002.jpeg

On Linux:

http://www.raptorized.com/public_files/d3_.../shot00001.jpeg

http://www.raptorized.com/public_files/d3_.../shot00002.jpeg

Bumpmapping seems downsampled to around 64.

it is most noticeable in the second screenshot. If that can be of any use I use Twinview with Xinerama extensions.

Some info:

supernaut@ewigkeit supernaut $ glxinfo | grep "direct" | awk '{ print $3 }'
Yes
supernaut@ewigkeit supernaut $

ewigkeit root # cat /proc/mtrr
reg00: base=0x00000000 (   0MB), size= 512MB: write-back, count=1
reg01: base=0xc0000000 (3072MB), size= 256MB: write-combining, count=1
reg02: base=0xd0000000 (3328MB), size= 256MB: write-combining, count=1
ewigkeit root #

ewigkeit root # X -version

X Window System Version 6.8.0
Release Date: 8 September 2004
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.9-gentoo-r9ewigkeit i686 [ELF]
Current Operating System: Linux ewigkeit 2.6.9-gentoo-r9ewigkeit #8 Mon Dec 6 21:30:47 EST 2004 i686
Build Date: 04 December 2004
        Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org
        to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
ewigkeit root #

ewigkeit root # lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
ohci_hcd               18308  0
snd_pcm_oss            48296  0
snd_mixer_oss          17536  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_oss            31552  0
snd_seq_midi_event      6144  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                49232  4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
forcedeth              14656  0
snd_intel8x0           28840  2
snd_mpu401_uart         6080  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi            20068  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          6344  3 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
nvidia               3462492  12
ewigkeit root #

Any ideas what might be causing this? Quake3 seems to run fine :)

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Well it would be extremely hard to have doom 3 set up "incorrectly."

And as for glxinfo, you can see up there that DRI _is_ enabled:

supernaut@ewigkeit supernaut $ glxinfo | grep "direct" | awk '{ print $3 }'
Yes
supernaut@ewigkeit supernaut $

if you really need the full glxinfo output I can post that but you know...

WELL I officially fixed it.

I disable texture downsampling and other things, and noticed there was a setting named image_ignorehigh "1". i turned it off, and everything is back to normal. Performance is even better than windows apparently...

There most definitively is a bug with quality detection...

WELL I officially fixed it.

I disable texture downsampling and other things, and noticed there was a setting named image_ignorehigh "1". i turned it off, and everything is back to normal. Performance is even better than windows apparently...

There most definitively is a bug with quality detection...

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So, you fixed it by....

making changes to the doom config file?

Alister

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