Re: [SLE] slow fps with fglrx driver

On Aug 06, 06 11:48:59 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
I have an nvidia card and glxgears is also displaying painfully slow values
however, all the 3D stuff works fast so glxgears is not dealing well
with this card.
Some friends nvidia card on SUSE 10.1 does will with glxgears just not mine.

In fact, there is a strange thing:

- nv and Mesa => above 1000 FPS in glxgears
- nvidia-1.0-4496 => 800 FPS
- nvidia-1.0-87xx => 213 FPS

and yet, UT is slowest with nv/Mesa, and remains the same between 4496 and
87xx.

So what is strange about those numbers?

glxgears basically only tests the speed of glxSwapBuffers() - anything
above 60 FPS is syntactic sugar and doesn't tell you anything.

So maybe glxSwapBuffers() is highly optimized in Mesa, but that doesn't
count. It's totally irrelevant, as it will not be called more than 60
times per second.

The nv driver does not support *any* hardware acceleration, so no wonder
UT is slow.

Matthias

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