Am 09.08.2012 10:41, schrieb David Gomes: > Hey there everyone, > > When I use gnome-shell and I just open up a game like Sauerbraten, > Warsow or Urban Terror, I can play smoothly, at 40 or 50 FPS. > > However, on Awesome WM (and for the record, any tiling window manager > like dwm, or even openbox), the games won't go past 15 FPS. They're > really really slow and unplayable. Any idea why? > > I actually have an idea... Hardware acceleration (or that OpenGL > acceleration thingie), which I think Gnome Shell has enabled, but I > don't know how I could fix it so that games could run just fine on > Awesome WM. > > Thank you.
That doesn't really make any sense...if some application makes use of the GPU, then other applications have less resources, not more. There must be some other difference. Is this the same machine, with both gnome and awesome installed? -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
