> IIRC this came up in a discussion with Michel Dänzer and someone else > some months ago. I noticed that glxgears was slightly faster without TCL > on my Radeon 7500. We argued that TCL means that the graphics card has > to do more work and the CPU less. If your CPU is not otherwise occupied > you can get higher framerates without TCL as the work is sort of shared > by CPU and graphics card. You should also notice a higher CPU > utilisation without TCL. > > If you get big differences in frame rates it may be something else, > though. >
Well, I don't know if I'd call them big differences but they seem significant. In atlantis (800x600) for example: HWTCL 354.9 fps SWTCL 436.6 fps ATI 436.6 fps Where ATI is the x4.3.0 drivers found here: http://www.schneider-digital.de/html/download_ati.html In gears (800x600) the diffrence between HWTCL and SWTCL are less notcible (I used top to get the idle times). HWTCL 235.8 fps 96-97% idle SWTCL 235.6 fps 92-93% idle ATI 394.3 fps 0% idle (??) This all seems very weird to me. Could it be that there are cases where using HWTCL just isn't worth it? jOrGe W. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100006ave/direct;at.asp_061203_01/01 _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
