On Saturday 23 October 2004 02:49, Greg Wildman wrote: >On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 12:05 +0100, VJ wrote: >> Hi, >> I used to get 650FPS with glxgears before I added this option >> (at the end ofthis mail ) to my xorg.conf. Now I get 1100FPS. Is >> it true that this option increased the FPS of my card? I am using >> "ATI Rage 128 Pro" as video card. Is glxgears reliable for such >> tests? >> >> Option "EnablePageFlip" "true" > >Thanks for the tip. I have an ATI Radeon 9200 and I am running the >standard Xorg driver on FC2. > >My FPS was around 450 with the cog's turning very very slowly. If I > put a terminal window over the glxgears windows then it shot up to > 4500 FPS. Not that that helps much. :-) > >I put in the setting you suggested and bingo, my FPS is now at 650. > The desktop also got a lot quicker, especially switching between > virtual desktops. > What 'section' of the xorg.conf file did you put that in? I tried it in the "Device' section, no errors, and slowed me by 5 fps. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.28% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
