On Saturday 18 November 2000 18:57, you wrote: > > On Saturday 18 November 2000 02:30 pm, Brent Timmer wrote: > > stupid question, but what is gears? > > It's prob'ly on your menus as 'Mesa gears', but a better way to run > it is from a term. just type 'gears' That way you'll see the frames > per second (fps) that your system is capable of in the term as gears > spin in a window. It's sort'a kind'a a benchmark and/or an indication > if 3d acceleration is setup/workin. It's about as good a BM as > bogomips, but it will let you know if 3d is workin ;) I get 120 fps > with a old pci Voodoo3, I've heard newer Nvidia and ATI cards get 1000 > fps :) I just tried that out with a geforce2, LM 7.2, and PIII overclocked to 910, and I got 2455.000 FPS. ;) -- Stephen
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