From: Keith W. <ke...@tu...> - 2002-07-05 13:09:12
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Stefan Lange wrote: > Jos=E9 Fonseca wrote: > > Keith Whitwell confirmed the readiness of the r200-0-1-branch for > > testing and for binary snapshots. > > > > You can get the first binary snapshot from > > http://dri.sourceforge.net/snapshots/bleeding-edge/ > > (the r200-* file). Please report any problem with the driver to > > dri...@li... . > > >=20 > Hi! I just (briefly) tested these drivers. I must say that I'm surprise= d > in a very positive way! They work quite well, considering the early > development state. >=20 > I tested them with the following: >=20 > glxgears: ~ 1650 fps > quite good, keeping in mind that the driver are probably not optimised > yet, firegl-driver give me something like 2200 fps I've just commited a small optimization that gears benefits from. It may= be=20 quite close now... > q3a: worked ok (didn't see any problems with the menu, as described in > the readme-file), but my keyboard stopped responding after playing for > about 5-10 minutes > i haven't done a benchmark with q3a: running a selfmade demo gives me > about 130 fps with firegl-drivers, and about 80 fps with r200-branch at > the same settings A large part of this difference is presumably due to HyperZ - something t= hat=20 we can't implement in an open driver. > rtcw (single player): working, but quite slow (performance isn't really > great with firegl-drivers neither...), crashed after about 10 mins Yes, I haven't had the opportunity to do any long runs of these demos. I= t's=20 a bit disappointing that they lockup, though. Keith |