i did a complete minimal reinstall with my stuff backed through wine. Anyway my gears are turning full-screen 532 frames in 5.007 seconds = 106.251 FPS 549 frames in 5.003 seconds = 109.734 FPS 549 frames in 5.025 seconds = 109.254 FPS 550 frames in 5.002 seconds = 109.956 FPS 550 frames in 5.007 seconds = 109.846 FPS 551 frames in 5.001 seconds = 110.178 FPS 955 frames in 5.002 seconds = 190.924 FPS 1435 frames in 5.005 seconds = 286.713 FPS 1437 frames in 5.000 seconds = 287.400 FPS 1442 frames in 5.002 seconds = 288.285 FPS 1436 frames in 5.002 seconds = 287.085 FPS 1438 frames in 5.001 seconds = 287.542 FPS Do these seem right?? all i can fathom is that i screwed up on my install with some dependencies somewhere and on yast update did a half-assed job.