Re: Another "What Motherboard Should I Buy" question

Darren Salt <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
I demand that Anton Ertl may or may not have written...

Mark Adams <mark9117@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R200 20060327 AGP 1x x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL
OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 6.5

Looks good.

Well, apart from the "AGP 1x" bit... mine says 8x.

Easy to fix with the AGPMode Option, but I doubt that it has anything
to do with the problem at hand.

[snip]
My laptop (iBook G4 with Mobile Radeon 9200) is much weaker than your box,
and it gets 2185fps with a few tweaks in the options (and IIRC 1200fps
without any tweaks).

Sounds interesting... what tweaks? (Limitation: the display consists of two
monitors, total width 2304 pixels.)

In the Device section of the xorg.conf file:

Option "GARTSize" "16" #up to 64 on other systems
Option "ColorTiling" "on"
Option "EnablePageFlip" "on"
Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"
Option "AGPMode" "4"

In addition, on the command line:

export hyperz=true #only affects R200 driver

- anton
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