From: Eric <ve...@sy...> - 2001-05-27 16:14:02
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Hi, I just did a fresh install of Mandrake 8.0 with XFree 4.0.3. When I ran "gears" I got 85 fps. Yesterday, I installed "tdfx-v0.7-linux-i386.tar.gz" and "Extras-v0.7-linux-i386.tar.gz" but this time, if I run "gears" it shows me only 22 fps! I am missing something? I have Mandrake 8.0, AMD K6-II 500 Mhz, 128M, Voodoo3 2000 PCI. Thanks for your help. Eric |
From: William R. <wr...@27...> - 2001-05-28 23:45:13
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I think your setup is fine. I have an Red Hat 7.1 system with an Athlon 1.33GHz, 256MB RAM, and a Voodoo5 5500. I'm using X 4.0.3, and the latest DRI install (0.7). I get about 85 fps in gears, yet 3D games (Quake3, HG2) run fine. Tribes2 runs at glacial speeds, but that's Tribes2 on a V5. I think gears doesn't like Voodoo cards. When I was configuring my system, I read all about people getting 500+ fps in gears and worried when I saw my paltry score. I was worried until I tried Q3 and HG2 and they ran fine. Try Tuxracer (or a commercial game, if you have one) and see how it plays. It should be fine. If so, just pretend gears is giving you answers in metric or something and ignore it... :-) -B On Sunday 27 May 2001 09:10, Eric wrote: > Hi, > > I just did a fresh install of Mandrake 8.0 with XFree 4.0.3. When I ran > "gears" I got 85 fps. Yesterday, I installed "tdfx-v0.7-linux-i386.tar.gz" > and "Extras-v0.7-linux-i386.tar.gz" but this time, if I run "gears" it > shows me only 22 fps! > > I am missing something? > > I have Mandrake 8.0, AMD K6-II 500 Mhz, 128M, Voodoo3 2000 PCI. > > Thanks for your help. > Eric > > _______________________________________________ > Dri-users mailing list > Dri...@li... > http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-users |
From: Rory H. <ro...@dc...> - 2001-05-28 23:56:14
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> I think your setup is fine. I have an Red Hat 7.1 system with an Athlon > 1.33GHz, 256MB RAM, and a Voodoo5 5500. I'm using X 4.0.3, and the latest > DRI install (0.7). I get about 85 fps in gears, yet 3D games (Quake3, HG2) > run fine. Tribes2 runs at glacial speeds, but that's Tribes2 on a V5. > > I think gears doesn't like Voodoo cards. When I was configuring my system, I > read all about people getting 500+ fps in gears and worried when I saw my > paltry score. I was worried until I tried Q3 and HG2 and they ran fine. If FX_GLIDE_SWAPINTERVAL is 1 in your environment, you won't get silly frame rates (I believe it's something to do with rendering synching with the monitor.. anyone confirm this?). Like this; roryh@ulfr roryh 0>> export FX_GLIDE_SWAPINTERVAL=1 roryh@ulfr roryh 0>> gears 294 frames in 5.002 seconds = 58.776 FPS 299 frames in 5.062 seconds = 59.068 FPS 301 frames in 5.004 seconds = 60.152 FPS But: roryh@ulfr roryh 0>> export FX_GLIDE_SWAPINTERVAL=0 roryh@ulfr roryh 0>> gears 2779 frames in 5.001 seconds = 555.689 FPS 2888 frames in 5.000 seconds = 577.600 FPS 2899 frames in 5.000 seconds = 579.800 FPS This is why games are fine, but gears give a low FPS. Try it. -- Rory |
From: George G. <tmw...@in...> - 2001-05-29 06:09:28
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On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 12:54:39AM +0100, Rory Hunter wrote: > If FX_GLIDE_SWAPINTERVAL is 1 in your environment, you won't get silly frame > rates (I believe it's something to do with rendering synching with the monitor.. > anyone confirm this?). FX_GLIDE_SWAPINTERVAL=0 gives better FPS, but the gears are moving slower and skip every few moments (that may be due to display the FPS -- it happens a 1/4 second or so before the frame rate is displayed). -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------- Custom Programming (323) 255-7949 | inX | EDI Translation/Mapping/VAN Services | Services | EDI Consulting ---------- Network Design tm...@in... Distributed Web Applications http://www.inxservices.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Improving Your Business Is Our Business! |
From: Marcelo E. M. <mar...@bi...> - 2001-05-29 18:09:40
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>> George Garvey <tmw...@in...> writes: > FX_GLIDE_SWAPINTERVAL=0 gives better FPS, but the gears are moving > slower No, they are not. At least not strictly speaking. Think about it... what do you see if the gear rotates with, say, 850 Hz but your monitor can display only 85 Hz? In 1/85 s it has completed 1/85 * 850 = 10 revolutions. In this case you'd say the gear is standing still. More interesting is what happens when it rotates at 840 Hz... in terms of frames per second, and because of the way "gears" is written, the gears are rotating one at 2*FPS and two at -4*FPS (more or less). Another interesting thing is what happens when your monitor displays 85 Hz but your application is changing the image at, say, 71 Hz... (these two things are incidentally the reason why those Quake "benchmarks" are misleading) -- Marcelo |
From: William R. <wr...@27...> - 2001-05-29 07:12:35
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On Tuesday 29 May 2001 16:54, Rory Hunter wrote: > > I think gears doesn't like Voodoo cards. When I was configuring my > > system, I read all about people getting 500+ fps in gears and worried > > when I saw my paltry score. I was worried until I tried Q3 and HG2 and > > they ran fine. > > If FX_GLIDE_SWAPINTERVAL is 1 in your environment, you won't get silly > frame rates (I believe it's something to do with rendering synching with > the monitor.. anyone confirm this?). Yup, that did it. Now I'm getting about 1300 fps. Which is somewhat better than 85. Now if only I could find an env var that would give a similar boost to Tribes2... :-) Would you happen to know a good place to find more information about this sort of thing? Is dri.sourceforge.net the only place? Thanks for the tip, BTW! -B |