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[ethanemc505]

I decided to visit my local microcenter to see the eee (lol) in person and just for fun i launched tux racer and it looked glitchy. So i restarted it and tried again and enabled "show fps" and i got scared!
it was getting between 4-11 fps! The model was frozen when i got there and it was very hot so i think it was just messed up, but if I've seen videos of the eee running it and it looked fine. Maybe it does run like this all the time :( but i hope not! Either way i'm getting an EEE

How many fps does your eee average on tux racer?

[BCTripster]

11.0 average for PPracer on mine .. not that I bought mine as a gaming machine though. I tried ET on it and it isn't playable or at least not on a overly populate etpub server, may be ok in smaller matches but for me screen size was just too small for FPS gaming.

[Chilling_Silence]

Its only got shared video RAM, nothing spectacular 3D is ever going to come from it, however it is playable IMO :) (Only just though...)

Edited by Chilling_Silence, 28 November 2007 - 03:00 AM.

[ethanemc505]

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11.0 average for PPracer on mine .. not that I bought mine as a gaming machine though. I tried ET on it and it isn't playable or at least not on a overly populate etpub server, may be ok in smaller matches but for me screen size was just too small for FPS gaming.

Is "ET" enemy territory? and if games run so crappy then how does beryl run?

[BCTripster]

Yah ET = Enemy Territory ... I won't bother with Beryl with this wee thing, I mean I'd prefer to keep it as lean as possible rather than loading up eye candy.

[Chad]

Actually beryl does work well from what I've seen... it's just games that kill it.

The i915 as used on the eee is reduced considerably from the normal GMA900 - it only has a 64-bit memory bus and is downclocked to ~166?mhz.

[NoeeePC4MeWellMaybe...]

Yeah, when it comes to 3D gaming the processor and GMA900 chips are not showing what they are actually capable of. Lets hope that at some point in time Asus release's an official BIOS that releases the full potential of both chips. If the 3rd revision of the R2H (R2H-BH059T-3) UMPC can cope with the same processor running at 900 MHz, I see no reason why the eeePC could not do the same.

[cheesemp]

Compiz (Beryl has merged back in with compiz) runs sweet under Ubuntu. It doesn't slow the machine one bit. Most old games are ok but I don't expect crysis will ever run.

[ethanemc505]

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Compiz (Beryl has merged back in with compiz) runs sweet under Ubuntu. It doesn't slow the machine one bit. Most old games are ok but I don't expect crysis will ever run.

I don't either, but this game doesn't seem to complex but still gets low fps?...maybe the windows version would run better...better drivers?...

just out of curiosity anyone have any cross os benchmarks for graphics, memory or cpu?

[Chris]

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Yeah, when it comes to 3D gaming the processor and GMA900 chips are not showing what they are actually capable of. Lets hope that at some point in time Asus release's an official BIOS that releases the full potential of both chips. If the 3rd revision of the R2H (R2H-BH059T-3) UMPC can cope with the same processor running at 900 MHz, I see no reason why the eeePC could not do the same.

Unless they've changed the specifications, the R2H UMPC runs a cacheless Celeron-M processor - a big step down from the Eee, even at 630MHz.

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I don't either, but this game doesn't seem to complex but still gets low fps?...maybe the windows version would run better...better drivers?...

And/or poor programming.

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just out of curiosity anyone have any cross os benchmarks for graphics, memory or cpu?

For CPU, you can use GeekBench 2.
For graphics, you'd have to compare game benchmarks - Quake 3 (or anything by iD) is good.

[ericmoritz]

openarena works great on it

[NoeeePC4MeWellMaybe...]

The R2H-BH059T-3 revision was updated with a Celeron M 353 several months ago. Sadly due to all of the negative press associated with the initial R2H-BH059T the main UMPC hardware review sites did not even bother to review latest revision. I think that Samsung also made the same processor swap in one of the Q1 revisions prior to the Q1P .

Edited by NoeeePC4MeWellMaybe..., 28 November 2007 - 11:58 PM.

[Cheeseness]

I get between 3 and 11fps on the first map in practice mode. It usually hangs around 5.
It's a bit sad that a pre-installed app runs so poorly.

[theSuperman]

I dont understand why Asus would include Tux Racer because it runs so bad on it. I mean its not that bad, but its still pretty laggy.

[creepingmee]

I have no trouble at all with tux racer, of course my eee is running at the rated processor speed of 900 mhz not the factory shipped 630. This makes a HUGE difference in the speed of the eee. It nearly doubles the performance all around due to the chipset quad pump, you are adding 120mhz to the ram access speed. HUGE difference. i get around 18fps pretty steady in tux racer.... very very playable, very smooth.. thats white the shadows and everything turned on. This little thing is much faster than my 1ghz p3 thinkpad. Great little system with good performance for its price and size. It truly is on par with a budget full size laptop (sub $400 range). Only it's much smaller and you don't have to put up with winblows if you don't want to.

[tuxpocket]

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I dont understand why Asus would include Tux Racer because it runs so bad on it. I mean its not that bad, but its still pretty laggy.

Probably because if you aren't used to playing it on something faster it seems fine. I didn't realize there was any problem with it. The kid who couldn't stop playing it on the microcenter demo model didn't seem upset (except perhaps that it was out of stock)

[theSuperman]

I mean it runs much better than the Solaris machines in the comp sci lab at my college. Those computers have no graphics card either.

[CMYanko]

It runs 'good enough' and my kids and I love it. It does a nice job f using our 800x480 screen also

[splooshie]

if your used to gaming 18fps is terribad in terms of framerates

[Ellipsys]

What about upgrading the RAM? I think with 1gb or higher, 128 of it will be dedicated to video RAM?