In fact, there is a strange thing:
- nv and Mesa => above 1000 FPS in glxgears - nvidia-1.0-4496 => 800 FPS - nvidia-1.0-87xx => 213 FPS
and yet, UT is slowest with nv/Mesa, and remains the same between 4496 and 87xx.
So what is strange about those numbers?
That a lot of people think that these numbers are indication that their card has become slow all of a sudden.
The nv driver does not support *any* hardware acceleration, so no wonder UT is slow.
I tend to believe that glxgears cheats. Because the framerate of the "gear" program demo (from http://jengelh.hopto.org/f/GLtest.tar.bz2) seems proportional to the driver/hardware power, i.e. gear with Mesa will get you some 4 FPS, with NVGL your usuall manyFPS. UT has a software renderer, and runs ... somewhat decent on a PII 233 MHz (tested on Windows, though). Jan Engelhardt --