Poor Minecraft Performance

[Agent24]

Re: Poor Minecraft Performance

It might work better with a newer version of Ubuntu but I can't upgrade right now for various reasons, one being that I haven't figured out how to get rid of Unity properly on the latest version (why did they ever think that thing was a good idea?)

[shovenose]

Re: Poor Minecraft Performance

OK, I want to try this DMA thing but... my HDD isn't hda, so how how I tell what it is?

Also, in Additional Drivers, the "ATI/AMD Proprietary FGLRX graphics driver" is Active but when I enable "ATI/AMD Proprietary FGLRX graphics driver (post-release updates)" I get and error message.

[pfrcom]

Re: Poor Minecraft Performance

my HDD isn't hda, so how how I tell what it is?

From a command line, "fdisk -l" without the double quotes, lower case letter L after the hyphen, should give you a list

Maybe it's "/dev/hda1"

[digge]

Re: Poor Minecraft Performance

I think your harddrive, considering its sata and all should probably be /dev/sda

Wrote that thing at work and just copy pasted without thinking much about it, anyways another way to find out is to

cat /proc/partitions

That will however show all partitions and not only the drives. The partitions are the ones with numbers on the end.

If DMA is not the issue i would be inclined to guess that its graphic driver related, for some reason or another it chokes. What driver are you using?

The odd part though is that it shows 80fps, which should be well within reason to playable.

[shovenose]

Re: Poor Minecraft Performance

OK it is indeed sda
But I got an error:

setting using_dma to 1 (on)
HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device

Now, does it have anything to do with the fact that this hard drive came out of a Mac and has an apple logo on it??