Seeing as how glxgears isn't a good benchark, and that Extreme Tux Racer won't even run on my box, I installed the Phoronix Test Suite, then told it to install the idquake3-games benchmark suite. A suite in Phoronix is a set of related benchmark tests. One can perform individual benchmarks, or all the benchmarks in a suite. When I asked it to install the idquake3-games suite, Phoronix told me that it would download two GIGABYTES of source code, from which the benchmark executables would all be built. So I got the download started and went to work. When I returned home, I found the idquake3-games executables not just downloaded, but built and ready to run on my box. I then gave the command: $ phoronix-test-suite benchmark idquake3-games It asked me a few questions such as the file name to use for the results of that particular test run, then set into the first benchmark. It was some 3D video game, that went full-screen on my full-resolution HD LCD display. The game was rendered completely flawlessly, with lots of nice touches such as bursts of semi-transparent smoke. But as you will no doubt recall, 3D accelleration on my card is not enabled at all: that 3D Quake Engine game benchmark that I ran on my box, was rendered completely in software, with no hardware accelleration whatsoever. Even though it's a 2.5 GHz Core 2 Quad Xeon box with 16 GB of FB-DIMM memory, that flawlessly-rendered video game benchmark managed to achieve a maximum framerate of perhaps two. Most of the it didn't even achieve that, but had a framerate of just one. Yes, you read that right: My Core 2 Quad Xeon box can play Quake Engine 3 games with a frame rate of just one frame per second. Someone has pointed out to me where I need to go to download and build the source that might enable 3D accelleration on my ($$$) ATI Radeon 4870HD card. I plan to give that a try next. Best, Don Quixote -- Don Quixote de la Mancha quixote@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.dulcineatech.com Dulcinea Technologies Corporation: Software of Elegance and Beauty. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
