On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 02:07 +0200, Joachim Schrod wrote:
Fred A. Miller wrote:
On Tuesday 24 October 2006 4:19 am, Basil Chupin wrote:
Fred A. Miller wrote:
I've also noticed that the performace of the nVidia commercial driver stinks! I have a PCI Express 16X card with the Geforce FX 5300 chipset. In the past, it's proved to be very quick.......NOT now!! Below are my results with glxgears.......this is a P-4 3.2Ghz. box.
Fred
3776 frames in 5.1 seconds = 744.131 FPS 4469 frames in 5.0 seconds = 893.677 FPS 6473 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1294.524 FPS 6480 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1295.932 FPS 6548 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1309.598 FPS
Yes, I read that. I also double checked to make sure my user ID is listed as "video" in the user setup, and it is. I get the same results you do.....not worth noting the difference.
Here too, with a GeForce FX 5200, and a P4 3 GHz, I get roughly 1000 FPS in the small window.
In full screen mode, 1600x1200 at 24bpp, glxgears gets reduced to 55 FPS! This seems to be awfully slow, or is this normal for that card? glxinfo|grep rendering outputs Yes, so 3D accelaration is supposed to be there. Root and non-root achieve the same speed, no it's not a matter of access to /dev/nvidia*
This is on SUSE 10.0, with the nvidia driver in version 1.0.7676, that I installed via YOU.
Would an update to the new 8776 driver version improve the performance?
How do I do such an update in the best way? Ideally it would survive kernel updates, as the current installation does. Btw, can anybody point me to a description how that is done? I would like to configure my VMware installation the same way, that it survives kernel updates as well.
Best, Joachim
-- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod@acm.org Roedermark, Germany
Just checked my present system, Suse 10.1, Athlon 64 X2 3800+ with w Gig RAM, Geforce 7300 GT PCI Express, 1.0.8762 Nvidia driver w/ nvidiahack.sh patch (for operation with Xen kernel) and default Suse Xen Kernel 2.6.16.21-.25 I get the following with glxgears 24-bit, Small window as it defaults to 43531 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8706.025 FPS 24-bit, 1680X1050 fullscreen 4684 frames in 5.0 seconds = 936.673 FPS Art