Lonni J Friedman wrote: <snip>
glxgears is an exceptionally poor benchmark, as its results are impacted by numerous factors unrelated to the graphics card or X driver that you're using.
Very true....saw glxgears output drop back to the 200 FPS range just by moving the mouse pointer all over the screen. However, without anything going on, FPS went back up.
Point is, putting the option in the Device section seemed to do something positive. Now to try some of those games and see what happens....
Got the idea by reading man radeon. -- Regards, Old Fart (my reply-to address is "munged" to defeat spambots)