On Saturday 18 November 2006 20:10, Ric Moore wrote: >On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 11:48 -0800, spmirowski wrote: >> > From: "Clyde E. Kunkel" <clydekunkel7734@xxxxxxx> With a radeon 9200 >> > AGP card and FC6 + rawhide I was getting a smidgen over 200 FPS with >> > glxgears and then I put Option "EnablePageFlip" "true" in xorg.conf >> > and glxgears shot up to a consistent 2238 FPS. Is this possible or >> > am I getting bogus readings? Is there a better benchmark for 3D >> > performance? >> >> ID games have demos (can run in timedemo (runs game faster if >> possible) mode, too): >> Quake 3 Arena >> Return to Castle Wolfenstein >> Enemy Territory (free game) >> Doom III >> Quake IV >> >> Or Some Epic games: >> Unreal Tournament 2003/4 >> >> Google Earth can be pretty intensive if you turn up the 3D options. >> (free version avail). >> >> GLXgears has almost no geometry and a whole lack of shaders and no NPC >> AI. It is a good, quick test to see if yer 3D is operational, but a >> terrible test of performance. > >I tried it for nVidia 3200+ and it seems to make no difference at all... >950 FPS mostly, in glxgears. <sigh> Ric Yeah, same here, on an rv280 card. -- 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) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
