On Saturday 30 June 2001 16:30, Anders Johansson wrote:
Have you run 3Ddiag? If so, what's the output from it?
Regards Anders
On Saturday 30 June 2001 18:25, michael norman wrote:
I am using 7.2 on a pentium 111 with 256meg ram and a Voodoo 3 2000. Out of ths boax and with agpart complied into the kernel I am getting a return from gears of around 86 fps. This seem rather slow, is there soimething I can do to improve it ?
I get much the same with a Voodoo 3 3000 AGP; 408 frames in 5.009 seconds = 81.453 FPS 425 frames in 5.009 seconds = 84.847 FPS 425 frames in 5.009 seconds = 84.847 FPS 425 frames in 5.008 seconds = 84.864 FPS 425 frames in 5.009 seconds = 84.847 FPS 425 frames in 5.009 seconds = 84.847 FPS 3Ddiag reports ---- Using /usr/bin/3dinfo ************************************************************ Verifying 3D configuration based on XFree86 4 for 3D board "3Dfx Interactive, Inc. 3Dfx Voodoo3 (121a@0005)": Tests for package "xf86_glx": package ... done. package files ... done. rc.config (SCRIPT_3D=switch2xf86_glx) ... done. Symbolic Links ... done. Tests for package "glidedri": package ... done. package files ... done. rc.config (SCRIPT_3D=switch2xf86_glx) ... done. Symbolic Links ... done. Test for correct XFree86 version ... done. Tests for XFree86 configuration: Config File /etc/X11/XF86Config ... done. Driver ... done. Color Depth ... done. Extensions ... done. Options ... done. ---- Everything seems to be working OK In addition, glxinfo gives; ---- .display: :0.0 screen:0 direct rendering: Yes server glx vendor string: SGI server glx version string: 1.2 server glx extensions: GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context client glx vendor string: SGI client glx version string: 1.2 client glx extensions: GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_ARB_get_proc_address GLX extensions: GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context OpenGL vendor string: VA Linux Systems, Inc. OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Voodoo3 20001101 OpenGL version string: 1.2 Mesa 3.4 ---- If something's up, it's might be a duff link to libGL.so or that gears is still trying to use software Mesa to render stuff. I'm still using 4.0.3 after a bad experience with 4.1.0 and 7.1. One thing I did notice in the XFree86 4.1.0 'new features' section (see http://www.xfree86.org/4.1.0/RELNOTES2.html#2) was a new update called 'glxgears' - I'm *guessing* that this *might* give you hardware-accelerated frame rates. The final possibility is that something's funny about gears that causes it to report incorrect values for Voodoo 3 cards. However, I can report that q3arena runs absolutely fine on my box at 1024x768. The Voodoo 3 isn't the newest card around, yet for the little 3D stuff I do, the unusually low gears reading doesn't appear to have any real consequence. cheers, Gideon.