OpenGL, games, choppy freeze-frames [solved by pacman -Syu]

Question

I have this problem but so far it's only in OpenGL games.  Probably because they are the only thing capable of demanding much from the CPU.  It affects games played in wine as well as native ones.  The application running is spiking when the graphics lag.  Xorg, however, is not spiking in CPU load, nor is anything else.  And I'm not running out of memory, either.  I'm running a bare-bones window manager with no composite garbage or anything. 
I tried adding nopat to the kernel boot line, and I think I tried every xorg.conf setting the internet could help me dream up.  In my internet travels there also seems to be a fair amount of very similar issues related to ATI users, as well, but that's not to say their drivers aren't garbage, either.  They probably are.   Anyway, the issue seems to keep popping up in Ubuntu forums, probably due to Ubuntu's popularity.
I have found no remedy.  But then, I'm not the one to be weighing in.  I'm hoping to reign in some experts.   I'd love to know how to stop the freeze-frames in graphics-intensive opengl games.  They're somewhat unplayable if the frame freezes long enough to get pwnt.  I've spent a few days on this, so here I am.  Thanks to any suggestions or questions.  Willing to revisit my xorg.conf if necessary.
I'm using Everquest 2 in Wine, and I downloaded Savage2 last night to cross-test the situation.  Ayup.  Freeze-frame issue is less frequent, but lasts longer per incident. 
System is 2.4ghz Athlon64 1mb L2 single core processor with 2gb of PC3200 RAM, and an AGP-based 7900GS video adapter.
One last question, how do I copy the contents of configuration files so I can paste them here.  My clipboard won't clear or accept contents from terminal apps.  Not sure which problem between those it is.  I used to be able to highlight the contents and then middle-click to paste.
Last edited by Bysshe (2009-04-12 02:29:45)

Answer 1

opened it in abiword.  duh.
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail"
Option "VTSysReq"
Option "AIGLX" "false"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
# FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection
Section "Module"
# Load "dri"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "extmod"
Load "dbe"
Load "xtrap"
Load "freetype"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
#DisplaySize 350 260 # mm
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "GWY"
ModelName "VX920"
### Comment all HorizSync and VertRefresh values to use DDC:
HorizSync 30.0 - 96.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 140.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "HWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "UseFBDev" # [<bool>]
#Option "Rotate" # [<str>]
#Option "VideoKey" # <i>
#Option "FlatPanel" # [<bool>]
#Option "FPDither" # [<bool>]
#Option "CrtcNumber" # <i>
#Option "FPScale" # [<bool>]
#Option "FPTweak" # <i>
#Option "DualHead" # [<bool>]
# NoMTRR Setting negatively affects performance
#Option "NoMTRR"
#Option "Accel"
Option "NoLogo" "true"
#Option "TripleBuffer" "true"
#Option "AGPFastWrite" "true"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "GeForce 7900 GS"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "0"
Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
Option "metamodes" "1280x960_85 +0+0; 1024x768_75 +0+0"
#Option "UseEvents" "true"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection