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
Out of curiosity, Fred, login in as root and do the glxgears thing. Someone mentioned a day ago that he got different (higher) result by logging in as root. I tried this and found that the result also went up--but by a very small margin. Nevertheless, to me it indicated that something in the user login possibly affects the fps result. Cheers. -- A quick survey at this office revealed that the preferred method of getting rid of unwanted pubic hair is to use dental floss.