The Painter's Wife is competely unplayable

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26 minutes ago, Araneidae said:

I'll dig into this tomorrow.  As you say, radeon-profile might have the CPU frequency, it was easier to screenshot a console output!  Integrated graphics?  Ick.  Dunno actually, have never used it; guess I'll have a look.  I got the same strange messed up numbers for VRAM with radeon-profile, so I'm certain something is up with the driver support.

Regarding the CPU usage, the way Linux top works is rather odd: it reports 100% for one cpu busy, so if all four CPUs were maxed out we'd be seeing 400% CPU usage!  You can see the individual core reports at the top, and it looks like the load is being fairly evenly spread over the 4 cores; seems odd, but that's how the system normally works.

The only special config setting I have to do after a reset of the config is to set 32-bit colour.  It turns out the driver thinks I have 64-bit colour and it comes out messed up.

 

Good to know, thanks

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Can I toggle com_smp live without a restart?  Do I just do `seta com_smp 0` in the console?

Yes, it's live, no `seta `, just `com_smp 0` in the console

Actually, it should have a GUI control, but I'm used to game console now

Right now I'm most interested in the following parameters:

• CPU and GPU freq
• GPU and CPU usage
• VRAM usage

with SMP on and off, shadows stencil and maps, in the critical scenes.

Finally, do you have VSync on/off, and capped FPS on/off (and max fps cap if relevant)