Whats up with the ati driver in 2.6.31.17 ? low fps

[Dennis Beekman]

When i started using Ubuntu 9.10 with the Downloaded ATI drivers the FPS under WoW in wine was about 110 FPS on my desktop and 80fps on my laptop.

In other games like Enemy Territory and Alien Arena the fps is sloser to 200 at full graphics.

But ever since the kernel update to version 2.6.31.17 and rebuilding the driver afterwards from the ATI 9.12 driver package the FPS is much lower.

Now i can only get about 70 FPS on my desktop and closer to 15 to 25 fps on my laptop in WoW...
Also the FPS on my laptop is not much higher then 20 in alien Arena and ETQW won't even run smoothly.

I tried downloading the driver again after removing the old version.
I also tried reformatting both computers and only installing the new drivers after performing all the available updates...

My Desktop specs:

Asus M4N78SE
AMD Phenom II X4 9650
Club3D Radeon HD5770 OC (875mhz clock)
4 GB DDR2-800

My Laptop Specs:
HP TX2650ED Tablet PC
AMD Turion X2 ZM-82
ATI Radeon HD3200
4 GB DDR2-800

Is this a know issue ? is there any way to fix this ?
I think it must have something todo with the new kernel or one of the other updates that is installed at the same time.

[Dennis Beekman]

Bump.... did anyone notice a similar drop in fps lately ? or is it just me ?

Meanwhile i also tried the new 10.1 drivers from ATI but they make no diffirence at all...

[bud986]

Id say that I have about exactly the same problem, next time im going to guy a nvidia card in my next machine for sure I think :/

[mosibfu]

honestly, after a kernel update with same driver a fps drop, hard to blame ati.. i just came from 8 years nvidia to ati, their drivers are much improved since amd bought ati, imho, if they keep this up, soon ati will have better drivers then nvidia.