Hi Thanks for your reply. Sorry I was not that clear. What I mean't to say was that the output of gears is affected by the mouse focusing on the xterm running gears, if I click away from the xterm running gears, clicking on the desktop or on the gears window the output drops to 800 or so fps, but clicking on the xterm window things speeds up to around 1500 sometimes 1700 fps. Gears just seems temperamental and I wondered if this was normal or whether the card is not setup properly? I am using the latest nvidia drivers with the SuSE 7.2 shipped verision of xfree 4, I think 4.0.3. I am running a Athlon 1.1ghz with an Epox board using agpx4. Are there any other Linux 3d benchmarks to try? Cheers Rich
Hello, Richie.
Your fps mileage depends on a great many variables. I ran gears with the regular nv driver before installing the nvidia driver, and was very disappointed to find it only hit 79fps. With the addition of the nv driver, this figure leaped to 1724fps. Not bad for just updating a driver.