Bug 587369 - Clamped framerate with Intel GM45 on Lenovo T500
Summary: Clamped framerate with Intel GM45 on Lenovo T500
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-intel
Version: 13
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Adam Jackson
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-04-29 18:01 UTC by Miroslav Vadkerti
Modified: 2011-06-27 15:57 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2011-06-27 15:57:58 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
Xorg log (94.77 KB, application/octet-stream)
2010-04-29 18:05 UTC, Miroslav Vadkerti
no flags Details
messages (109.00 KB, application/octet-stream)
2010-04-29 18:06 UTC, Miroslav Vadkerti
no flags Details

Description Miroslav Vadkerti 2010-04-29 18:01:34 UTC
Description of problem:
I'm experiencing very poor 3D performance with Intel GM45 integrated graphics on my lenovo T500.

$ glxgears 
299 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.626 FPS
299 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.797 FPS
299 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.795 FPS

In F12 this is running 500+ FPS

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.33.3-73.fc13.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.11.0-2.fc13.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. glxgears
2. observe FPS
  
Actual results:
very poor performance

Expected results:
performance is at least as in F12

Additional info:

Comment 1 Miroslav Vadkerti 2010-04-29 18:05:39 UTC
Created attachment 410183 [details]
Xorg log

Comment 2 Miroslav Vadkerti 2010-04-29 18:06:15 UTC
Created attachment 410184 [details]
messages

Comment 3 Miroslav Vadkerti 2010-04-29 18:11:07 UTC
Looks like this is a duplicate of bug 582861

Comment 4 Miroslav Vadkerti 2010-04-29 18:12:45 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 582861 ***

Comment 5 Miroslav Vadkerti 2010-04-30 06:02:10 UTC
Reopened to track the clamped framerate issue. The framrate is clamped to the values in description when measuring using glxgears. The performance looks good even the CPU is under load.

Comment 6 Miroslav Vadkerti 2010-04-30 06:07:02 UTC
Also I experienced a freeze (without hard lock .. enabled ctrl+alt+backspace worked) and I think my symptoms are related to this report:

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/2010-April/006652.html

Comment 7 Howard Ning 2010-04-30 20:05:21 UTC
I have installed fedora 13 on my thinkpad x200 laptop with intel GMA4500MHD graphics. Apps that uses OpenGL graphics became very choppy comparing to Fedora 12 with mesa 7.7.1 (7.7-5). The FPS is not low but the the animation will halt a short time every several frames. So the graphics experience is very bad. Any one have the same problem?

Some info:
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset GEM 20100328 2010Q1
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.8.1
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20

Tested apps: xmoto, nexuiz, warsow, openarena. 

Glxgears works fine:
$ glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh.  The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
4635 frames in 5.0 seconds = 926.950 FPS
5129 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1025.667 FPS
5207 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1041.257 FPS

Update 1:
I have installed the latest mesa 7.8.1-2, xserver 1.8.0-8 and non-debug kernel 2.6.33-68.
The performance issue still persist on my thinkpad x200 with GMA4500MHD. Actually there isn't any performance gain from the beta. The 3D or 2D opengl graphics stiill seems laggly even though the FPS is relatively high. Even simple 2D game like XMOTO is laggy. 

Update 2:
Even with mesa 7.8.1-5, it is not fixed.

Comment 8 Filipe Rosset 2010-08-02 20:49:22 UTC
Tests on my Asus UL20A

Hardware:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)

Packages:
xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.11.0-5.fc13.x86_64
kernel-2.6.33.6-147.2.4.fc13.x86_64
mesa-dri-drivers-7.8.1-6.fc13.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.8.2-2.fc13.x86_64


[filiper@rosset tmp]$ glxgears 
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh.  The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
307 frames in 5.0 seconds = 61.324 FPS
308 frames in 5.0 seconds = 61.462 FPS
302 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.268 FPS
308 frames in 5.0 seconds = 61.457 FPS

Comment 9 Bug Zapper 2011-06-02 14:43:06 UTC
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Comment 10 Bug Zapper 2011-06-27 15:57:58 UTC
Fedora 13 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2011-06-25. Fedora 13 is 
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