I tried both unagi and xcompmgr, it looked better at first, but it still wasn't fixed.
Nevertheless, thank you. On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Andre Klärner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi David, > > are you running the games in a window mode? If yes it might be worth > trying a compositing manager, like unagi or xcompmgr. > > Regards, Andre > > > > Thorsten Sperber <[email protected]> schrieb: > > >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]. >
