On Thursday 01 March 2007, Claude Jones wrote: >On Wed February 28 2007, Gene Heskett wrote: >> And what sort of a cpu etc do you have there? Those figures are about >> 30x what I'm getting after using the nvidia installer to put the most >> recent driver in. This card, and I miss-spoke is a 3DForce 6200-256. >> the nv driver would not even run it as well as the ATI ran, including >> limiting the resolution to 1440x900, which is a far cry from square >> pixels here. But after I'd installed the nvidia driver, I was back to >> my usual 1600x1200 and looking good, but, on the XP-2800 Athlon with a >> gig of 333FSB ram, glxgears, while obviously a heck of a lot smoother, >> isn't anywhere near that fast: >> >> 5939 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1187.719 FPS >> 5969 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1193.787 FPS >> 5961 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1192.097 FPS > >Currently, at home, I'm experiencing a big system barf. If I try to run >GLXgears, the screen blacks out and after a few moments, it returns me > to a log-in screen. Can't give any time to this this am because I have > to go to an appointment. The figures I cited were from my work machine > which is a 2.66 GHz P4, if I'm not mistaken - I'll double-check that > when I get in. This machine is a dual-core 2.66 MHz w/ 2 GB ram. > I've not made the jump to a dual core anything yet, but I can see it in the future I believe. I'll be waiting so we can compare notes. >-- >Claude Jones >Brunswick, MD, USA -- 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 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
