On Thursday 01 March 2007, Jonathan Berry wrote: >On 2/28/07, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Saturday 24 February 2007, Jonathan Berry wrote: > >[snip] > >> >closely tied to your CPU and other factors. I have a (PNY) 6600 GT >> >with 128 MB Video RAM and I get: >> >(with AIGLX enabled) >> >$ glxgears >> >19516 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3903.179 FPS >> >28603 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5720.504 FPS >> >27597 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5519.237 FPS >> >28336 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5661.658 FPS >> >(without AIGLX) >> >$ glxgears >> >37436 frames in 5.0 seconds = 7487.071 FPS >> >36616 frames in 5.0 seconds = 7322.496 FPS >> >37653 frames in 5.0 seconds = 7530.581 FPS >> >36758 frames in 5.0 seconds = 7351.457 FPS >> > >> >Jonathan >> >> And what sort of a cpu etc do you have there? Those figures are about >> 30x > >I have an Athlon64 3500+ (2.2 GHz), 2 GB RAM DDR400 dual-channel >running 64-bit FC6. > >> what I'm getting after using the nvidia installer to put the most >> recent > >The driver from Livna (or another repo, if you prefer, I forget which >other one has it) is really the better way to go. I'm not sure if >things are better now, but be careful if you upgrade anything related >to X with the nVidia installer. > >> driver in. This card, and I miss-spoke is a 3DForce 6200-256. the nv >> driver would not even run it as well as the ATI ran, including >> limiting the resolution to 1440x900, which is a far cry from square >> pixels here. > >That's a widescreen format. My LCD panel actually uses that resolution. > >> But after I'd installed the nvidia driver, I was back to my usual >> 1600x1200 and looking good, but, on the XP-2800 Athlon with a gig of >> 333FSB ram, glxgears, while obviously a heck of a lot smoother, isn't >> anywhere near that fast: >> >> 5939 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1187.719 FPS >> 5969 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1193.787 FPS >> 5961 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1192.097 FPS > >A lot of that may be your CPU and RAM. These are a few times faster >than the numbers Claude cited at first, which he said were on a 2.66 >GHz P4. And I think thats a real clock speed, the xp-2800 is propaganda as its actually running at 2Ghz. >So this may be about right. Also remember that my 6600 GT is >a couple steps better than your 6200. Eiiyyup. This is an improvement, and as long as the installer will keep building a new version like it did this time for a bleeding edge kernel, I'll be relatively happy. As far as livna, I got tangled up in some earlier livna stuff and had to tie smart in knots to get things back to somewhat normal. So that repo is now turned off. >[snip] > >> So what do I check next? And, whats all that 'Ncon' stuff telling me? > >I do not know anything about the glxinfo output. It looks like things >are working to me. > >Jonathan Well, the Ncon part was what I didn't grok. And it is working, stinking the place up with the new pcb burning in smell, but working. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
