[*Solved*] Games FPS Lag

twiistedkaos · 2007-02-05 20:53:21

Well, last night I downloaded the wine-cvs-wow package from aur so I could try world of warcraft. Of crosue I had to build it myself but then I was pissing a few things:

cvs fontforge libjpeg libungif alsa-lib libldap libxslt lcms libxxf86dga freeglut

So I installed those with their depenencies. Rebooted after wine-cvs-wow built and tried WoW again, complete lag, so I figured screw it I wouldn't bother. Now any game I run, Linux binary or through Wine is having a major mouse / fps lag problem and I can't figure out why, I removed the packages required by the things wine-cvs-wow needed but it didn't remove their dependcies even with pacman -Rc <packages>, so what I am thinking is something that was installed is causing problems with my games, when I close a game, any game, Xorg restarts automatically. Anyone know whats going on here?

Also I don't get any errors with the games, just a complete FPS lag, which was never there before.

Maybe a complete pacman -Rc xorg would remove all files, then a reinstallation of them would fix it? Also is it possible to remove all packages except base system?

Last edited by twiistedkaos (2007-02-06 06:10:59)

Snowman · 2007-02-05 21:45:46

You didn't used the correct switch. Reinstall the packages (cvs fontforge libjpeg libungif alsa-lib libldap libxslt lcms libxxf86dga freeglut) then remove them with 'pacman -Rsc <packages>'

twiistedkaos · 2007-02-05 21:57:31

Alright, i'll try that.

twiistedkaos · 2007-02-05 22:08:44

hmm that removes too many packages, way more than it forced me to download to begin with, I may just completely reinstall arch >.<

Snowman · 2007-02-05 22:11:37

Try with just 'pacman -Rs <packages>' then.

twiistedkaos · 2007-02-05 22:13:40

still same thing, on a side note mplayer doesn't work anymore either, so it's something that games, and mplayer have in common, I'm leaning towards libxxf86dga, which should've been installed anyways, so I don't know why I was forced to install it.

Snowman · 2007-02-05 22:22:00

Do you have any error messages? I find it strange that having these packages on your system would affect it. To remove the dependencies that you installed, check /var/log/pacman.log. Everything will be listed there so you'll know what packages were installed and you'll be able to remove them.

twiistedkaos · 2007-02-05 22:30:45

Heres the log:

[02/05/07 01:39] synchronizing package lists
[02/05/07 01:40] installed kernel-headers (2.6.19.1-1)
[02/05/07 01:40] warning: /etc/locale.gen saved as /etc/locale.gen.pacorig
[02/05/07 02:00] installed glibc (2.5-3)
[02/05/07 02:00] installed libjpeg (6b-4)
[02/05/07 02:00] installed libungif (4.1.4-1)
[02/05/07 02:00] installed alsa-lib (1.0.13-1)
[02/05/07 02:00] installed xproto (7.0.9-2)
[02/05/07 02:00] installed libxau (1.0.2-1)
[02/05/07 02:00] installed libxdmcp (1.0.2-1)
[02/05/07 02:00] installed kbproto (1.0.3-1)
[02/05/07 02:00] installed bigreqsproto (1.0.2-1)
[02/05/07 02:01] installed libx11 (1.1-2)
[02/05/07 02:01] installed xextproto (7.0.2-1)
[02/05/07 02:01] installed libxext (1.0.3-1)
[02/05/07 02:01] installed xf86vidmodeproto (2.2.2-1)
[02/05/07 02:01] installed libxxf86vm (1.0.1-1)
[02/05/07 02:01] installed libdrm (2.3.0-1)
[02/05/07 02:01] installed libgl-dri (6.5.2-1)
[02/05/07 02:01] installed glproto (1.4.8-1)
[02/05/07 02:01] installed binutils (2.17-2)
[02/05/07 02:01] installed gcc (4.1.2-2)
[02/05/07 02:01] installed libice (1.0.2-1)
[02/05/07 02:01] installed libsm (1.0.2-1)
[02/05/07 02:01] installed libxt (1.0.5-1)
[02/05/07 02:01] installed mesa (6.5.2-1)
[02/05/07 02:01] installed freeglut (2.4.0-2)
[02/05/07 02:01] installed db (4.4.20-3)
[02/05/07 02:01] installed libsasl (2.1.22-2)
[02/05/07 02:01] installed openssl (0.9.8d-1)
[02/05/07 02:01] installed libldap (2.3.33-1)
[02/05/07 02:01] installed zlib (1.2.3-1)
[02/05/07 02:01] installed ncurses (5.6-1)
[02/05/07 02:01] installed readline (5.2-1)
[02/05/07 02:01] installed libxml2 (2.6.27-1)
[02/05/07 02:01] installed libgpg-error (1.5-1)
[02/05/07 02:01] installed libgcrypt (1.2.3-1)
[02/05/07 02:01] installed libxslt (1.1.20-1)
[02/05/07 02:01] installed libtiff (3.8.2-3)
[02/05/07 02:01] installed lcms (1.16-1)
[02/05/07 02:01] installed xf86dgaproto (2.0.2-1)
[02/05/07 02:01] installed libxxf86dga (1.0.1-1)
[02/05/07 02:03] warning: /etc/profile saved as /etc/profile.pacorig
[02/05/07 02:03] installed bash (3.2-1)
[02/05/07 02:03] installed e2fsprogs (1.39-2)
[02/05/07 02:03] installed heimdal (0.7.2-3)
[02/05/07 02:03] installed cvs (1.11.22-3)
[02/05/07 02:03] installed libxkbfile (1.0.4-1)
[02/05/07 02:03] installed libxkbui (1.0.2-1)
[02/05/07 02:03] installed inputproto (1.4-1)
[02/05/07 02:03] installed libxi (1.1.0-1)
[02/05/07 02:03] installed fontforge (20061025-1)
[02/05/07 02:11] synchronizing package lists
[02/05/07 08:33] installed wine-cvs-wow (20061014-1)
[02/05/07 08:45] upgraded wine (0.9.30-1 -> 0.9.30-1)
[02/05/07 15:12] synchronizing package lists
[02/05/07 15:12] starting full system upgrade

Those were all installed as dependencies, some of which I had to use the -f switch to install. problem is I don't know which to remove, because I know bash, glibc, kernel-headers, ect. are require to run a system, and am clueless on why they reinstalled.

Last edited by twiistedkaos (2007-02-05 22:34:18)

Snowman · 2007-02-06 03:29:58

I guess that your local db got corrupted in some way. Maybe because of a filesystem/hard drive error. From a quick look, most of these packages are common ones.

For the lag problem, check if your user is still in the video group and if dri is working (with glxinfo).

twiistedkaos · 2007-02-06 04:59:45

Thanks for your help Snowman, but, after I restarted, my harddrive just died O.o, I tried reinstalling arch on that drive and it wasn't even detected, so I had to go out and buy a new harddrive. Really odd, would've though the OS would've just stopped working completely, and not just a few quarks here and there. Well, I have arch installed on my new harddrive already and all is well, just need to reconfigure everything xD!

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