Hmm, I know it sounds odd, but when I minimize the glxgears window, I
get around 4500fps, and if I don't minimize it, I only get 650fps!

How is this possible?

Thanks

Hans

On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 06:26, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote:
> On Qua 11 Dez 2002 07:17, Simon Naish wrote:
> 
> Is that to taken seriously?
> 
> I got 715.600fps on my gf2 with nvidia drivers!
> 
> Just to be sure..... that's 3758 frames in 5 seconds!
> 
> Ricardo
> 
> > Just my 2 cents worth but as far as I can tell there is no hardware
> > acceleration available from the nv driver. 340 fps is seriously poor for
> > the small window of gears, and bout right for no hardware accelertion, try
> > 6000 (yup 6000) fps with hardware acceleration and a reasonable to good
> > modern graphics card. I cant see the open source drivers getting close :o(
> > for a very very very long time.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:14:41 -0500
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [expert] Nvidia driver chaos!
> >
> > > On Tuesday 10 December 2002 11:06 am, you wrote:
> > > >     XFree's nv driver does have 3d/accel, XFree86-4.2.1.
> > > > My GeF2 gets 35 fps with glxgears in fullscreen, 1024x768x16. 340 fps
> > > > in the smaller default window using the nv driver.  Either try the
> > > > older 2960 nvidia src.rpms, or if limited 3d/accel is all you need,
> > > > avoid the nvidia binary crap altogether.
> > >
> > > Tom, does this mean that sometime (with ongoing development?) in the
> > > future we might actually see the fully open sourced drivers being
> > > comparable to performance to the closed ones? It would be nice to be able
> > > to drop the proprietary drivers...
> > >
> > > Got my fingers crossed! :-)
> > >
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