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btartsa

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Registered: 2004-07-26

Posts: 222

Awful performance w/ google-earth

I installed google-earth from AUR and it runs terribly on my otherwise well performing machine. I have a dual 2.4ghz p4 box and starting the app spikes the second cpu to 100% but leaves the other nearly idle. Stock kernel, decent ATI card (not at home at the moment so I dont have the model) that runs video really well.  Two gigs of ram in there too. Htop shows googleearth-bin running about 40 times, but I'm not sure how to interpret that since top shows it only once.

Thanks

filou.linux

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From: Zurich

Registered: 2008-04-17

Posts: 87

Re: Awful performance w/ google-earth

AFAICT thats a Graphicdriver problem. I guess Google Earth needs Hardware acceleration. Have you installed the proprer ATI driver?
Otherwise check out http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI and try again. Hope this helps.

btartsa

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Registered: 2004-07-26

Posts: 222

Re: Awful performance w/ google-earth

OK this is solved. The problem is specific to the open source ati driver.

Install driconf from AUR
Go to application settings and add a new application.
Give the application a name
Make the executable "googleearth-bin"
Go to the add setting option for the application and add "disable low-impact fallback", set this to true.

Where is a suitable place to put this in the wiki?

Rasi

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-08-14

Posts: 1,914

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Re: Awful performance w/ google-earth

Where is a suitable place to put this in the wiki?

I guess this fits:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI … nce_tuning

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filou.linux

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From: Zurich

Registered: 2008-04-17

Posts: 87

Re: Awful performance w/ google-earth

Ok, seems quiet more complicated than just installing the driver. Good job! Sorry, my post wasnt very useful, but I thought it would be a good start to look at the driver (cause you never said that other 3D Software runs fine). Have a nice day!

Army

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Registered: 2007-12-07

Posts: 1,784

Re: Awful performance w/ google-earth

But this doesn't work with every ATI card! I tried it once, didn't change a thing. But that was a while ago, I'll try it again later this day. What I want to say is, it would help to provide working and not working cards in this section of the wiki. So btartsa, what card do you have?

btartsa

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Registered: 2004-07-26

Posts: 222

Re: Awful performance w/ google-earth

Army:

Video      : RV350 AS [Radeon 9550] server: Xorg (fglrx) 
Driver     : xf86-video-ati   module: fglrx