Re: [Dri-users] Voodoo3 + DRI Performance

[Keith W. <kei...@ya...>]

Daniel Kulesz wrote:
> 
> Hi List,
> 
> I've had up to today a 3dfx Voodoo Banshee Board installed, and I upgraded
> to a Voodoo3-3000 AGP because the banshee was too slow to play Quake3/Urban
> Terror with it. Now that I have the Voodoo3 installed the performance
> Increase seems just minimalistic. I get just a very slightly better
> FPS-Rate etc. in Quake and GLXGears shows the same Value: 75FPS on both
> cards!
> I looked whether it's neccessary to change something in the configuration
> but I came to the conclusion that both cards run with exactly the same
> settings. In Quake3 for example the driver also stated it was running on
> this Voodoo3 3000 DRI Driver.
> 
> Anyone could explanations for it? Oh before I forget it, my system: Debian
> GNU/Linux with Kernel 2.4.16, 256Megs RAM

The FX driver defaults to swap only on screen refresh for bullshit historical
reasons.  I'll be changing this very soon.

In the meantime, 

export FX_GLIDE_SWAPINTERVAL=0

Keith

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