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?
>
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