Re: GoogleEarth for Linux has been released

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On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 06:40:26PM +0200, Trond Danielsen wrote:
> On 6/14/06, Chris Jones <jonesc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >>>
> >> 3368 frames in 5.0 seconds = 673.481 FPS
> >> 3367 frames in 5.0 seconds = 673.284 FPS
> >> 3799 frames in 5.0 seconds = 759.770 FPS
> >
> >I think thats your problem, those figures aren't so hot.
> >
> >For comparison, my laptop (now 2.5 years old) has a nvidia geforce
> >fx5650, and with the binary nvidia driver I get around 2500 FPS. For new
> >cards I have seen much bigger numbers quoted (4k-5k and above).
> >It also could be the driver you are using doesn't implement some needed
> >by google earth ?
> 
> I know the video card isn't the fastest one in the world, but Google
> Earth runs ok in windows.

My geforce 2Go laptop also has 670 FPS. Running googlearth on it works
fine as long as I do not resize the window above say 1024x768.
running it fullscreen (1600x1200) makes it teriibly slow (cvpu goes to 100%).

-Marcel
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