bf-blender / windows ATI slow ui fix

alien-xmp · Post by **alien-xmp** » Mon May 31, 2004 1:07 pm

Hi all,

This compile is supposed to fix the infamous UI slowdown on ATI graphics cards.

http://download.blender.org/demo/test/b ... 1May04.zip

Notes:
It is compiled with SSE enabled - a Pentium 3/4/M or Athlon XP is required. It will crash with an invalid instruction if you haven't got one.

Report issues etc here, even if you don't have an ATI - I don't want to break other cards!

Bensloth · Post by **Bensloth** » Mon May 31, 2004 10:56 pm

THNAKYOU SO MUCH!

this has worked perfectly for me! it does not slwo down at all now

ty so much, before i was so frustrated about the time i had to wait just to get onto the matierals section etc. TY TY TY!!!! all praise alien-xmp (for the moment) :p no offence to god there.

z3r0_d · Post by **z3r0_d** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 2:22 am

so, umm, what was the problem that this fixes?

I mean: what caused the ati bug?

it doesn't seem to slow down
(I guess I get to get used to new zoom if I decide to use that build, or look for the option to use old zoom)

alien-xmp · Post by **alien-xmp** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 4:26 am

I just replaced all the glFinish calls with glFlush.

glFlush causes all gl commands that are waiting to be sent to the gpu to be rendered - it's needed when drawing to the front buffer so that the gpu knows when the frame has finished.
glFinish is basically the same as glFlush, except that it waits for the gpu to finish rendering.

Dani · Post by **Dani** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 1:49 pm

good news: OpenGl is 13% faster on Gforce3-Ti200
Should we test further? do you have an idea of something that could go wrong and that should be tested further on?
Anyway, Good job!

Dani

A2597 · Post by **A2597** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 12:53 am

z3r0_d wrote:so, umm, what was the problem that this fixes?

I mean: what caused the ati bug?

it doesn't seem to slow down
(I guess I get to get used to new zoom if I decide to use that build, or look for the option to use old zoom)

the problem was that with drivers newer then cat 3.9s, blender would start to slow down. after about five minutes using blender there was a 3-5 second delay for any command to take effect.

Yfkar · Post by **Yfkar** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 7:56 am

At least for me this improved the GUI usability a lot. The GUI doesn't seem to slow down anymore the same way.

Other than that, there's still a slowdown in Blender. I tested repeating benchmark with one of my projects. At first the fps were at 60, then 55, 52, 46... until it was only 22. Also, when I click a slider button, the button doesn't go down until I've moved the mouse. It isn't too serious but it surely doesn't feel natural.

Anyway, keep up the good work!

alien-xmp · Post by **alien-xmp** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 1:46 pm

Yfkar: What model graphics card are you using?

Yfkar · Post by **Yfkar** » Wed Jun 02, 2004 2:43 pm

Connect3D Radeon 9600XT.

dl · Post by dl » Thu Jun 03, 2004 12:29 pm

FWIW: This version improved performance on my system, too.

CPU: P3/320MB/Win98SE
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440 PCI/SSE/64MB
Driver: 45.23 (OpenGL was trashed in newer versions)
OpenGL: 1.4.0

thoro · Post by **thoro** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 2:56 pm

Good to see that the problem is analysed now - thank you!

Your compile runs on my machine (Pentium 4 - Windows XP - Club Radeon 9200 - Catalyst 4.5) and is a bit faster compared to standard 2.33a atioglxx.dll

(also measured by benchmark). I repeated the benchmark test to see if it starts to slow down and it kept stable.

BUT: rendering is slower and takes longer to start compared to 2.33a with atioglxx.dll. And resizing of screen areas (for example pulldown of the user preferences area) is sloooooow now.

Keep up the good work.

Cheers

Thorsten

P.S. I think I will never get used to this new zoom behaviour

In Germany, we call this a 'Verschlimmbesserung' - improving something making it worse for most of the users

Yfkar · Post by **Yfkar** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 6:06 pm

Tried the trick at http://www.elysiun.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23964 with Catalyst 3.9 and now Blender works well.

grasfresser · Post by **grasfresser** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 7:24 pm

Hello,
i had the slow down problem too, with my ATI AIW 9000pro.
I replaced the files with the one above, and at first glance, it worksjust perfectly, no slow down, the benchmark gained from 600 to 800,
the top user interface is not slower while pulling down, everything seems just top! Now lets work with it........
Thx to alien-xmp!

pildanovak · Post by **pildanovak** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 1:18 pm

i had some problems with this build/ i have just copied all the files in the blender directory. when starting the game engine, crashed often

hanzo · Post by **hanzo** » Sat Jun 19, 2004 1:40 am

hehe, just what the doctor ordered, to fix this angziety problem that almost led to a nervise break down, and suicied of my blender pastiance...

thanks for hiting this out at use alien-xmp, now maybe I can start posting some of my blender works on the forums.

PS: I have to start testing it now

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