It is indeed the same laptop, with both Gnome and Awesome installed. On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 10:05 AM, 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? > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected]. >
