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[Ara Pulido <ara@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

On 03/11/2010 10:38 AM, Dennis Beekman wrote:
> 2 Things today:
> 
> 1. Yesterday i decided to check if the problem with the FGLRX driver had
> been fixed yet so i could finaly test something.
> When the live disk started i was greeted by a nice new user interface
> and bootscreen, and the installer had been changed aswell.

For this one, you might have hit bug 535630 [1]. This should be fixed in
the next build.

Thanks,
Ara.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/535630

> 
> However when i tried to use the installer to get Ubuntu on my test
> machine (yes i do have a specific computer for this) the tool crashed
> and froze when it started to load the partitioning tools.
> Can anyone confirm this error and perhaps suggest a solution ?
> 
> 2. I also have a very simple question for the admins in this mailing list:
> 
> Lately the performance of my ATI card on Ubuntu whent completely down
> the drain.
> I play Alien Arena and Sauerbraten aswell as World of Warcraft (using
> wine) and the fps in these games was reduced to half of what it was before.
> 
> I used to have between 60 - 100 FPS in WOW and this is now this has been
> recuded to between 25 to 45 FPS
> Alien Arena has been hit hard aswell with a 60fps drop... luckely it had
> 200FPS to begin with so i have plenty performance left there.
> 
> I have a Club 3D Radeon 5770 overclocked edition card surely i should
> have more performance under Ubuntu 9.10 ?
> Will this performance loss be fixed in 10.04 ? or are these drops
> permanent ?
> 
> and does anyboddy else notice these drops aswell ?
> 
> Kind Regards
> 
> Dennis
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