Bug 206775

Summary:	games-arcade/pacmanarena-0.15 is slow and crashes the X server when exiting
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Barafu Albino <barafu.albino.cheetah>
Component:	[OLD] Games	Assignee:	X11 External Driver Maintainers <x11-drivers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
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Description Barafu Albino 2008-01-20 13:55:38 UTC

When pacmanarena starts it is really slow even on high-end machines. Additionally , when I choose "Exit" in main menu, the X server hangs up into blanc screen and responds to no input, except for Alt-F(2-5). Then the console opens with weird font on it. Sometimes X server restarts itself into kdm login screen. Strangely, after such restarts Yakuake displays its "This is the first time you run me" screen, though all settings are kept. 
I use the latest packages from stable amd64 tree, Kde, kdm, nvidia drivers. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start the pacmanarena game
2.Choose exit in main menu
3.Watch the shutdown.

Actual Results:  
X-server hangs or restarts or falls into terminal console with weird settings.

Expected Results:  
Game closes and frees it's memory.

I use Geforcge 7600GT video card at 1900*1200 dots.

Comment 1 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-02-04 22:16:10 UTC

It is way how is it written.
I was benchmarking it on ATI (OS and PROP. driver), INTEL and Nvidia card and it was not usable anywhere... (tested on x86 and amd64)
It deadlocked only on amd64

Ony way how to make this game fast is complete rewrite. :)
So better for you would be writing your own pacman :P


Maybe it should be removed from the tree to sunrise so people don't bother to compile it if they really don't know what they are doing.

Comment 2 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-02-04 22:33:36 UTC

when the X server goes down, it's usually a driver problem.

Comment 3 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-02-05 12:51:18 UTC

Probably yes, but when game is not even playable it could do some damage also (wrong calls...), and we all know that binary drivers are evil and we can't fix em.

Comment 4 Barafu Albino 2009-02-23 16:15:57 UTC

Don't know what, but something has changed. May be it is nvidias drivers. However, I couldn't make it to crash on several different platforms.