On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Thorsten Sperber <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
Unless he has some compositor installed in awesome (the available compositors I know of are all kind of slow, especially compared to gnome-shell's compositor). -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
