Apparently the fgl_glxgears is designed to work with the fglrx driver which is for the ATI cards. At least, that is what I think I am reading but would like confirmation. Therefor, no alternative to glxgears for Nvidia is possible for me. My readings look like: 920 frames in 5.0 seconds = 183.864 FPS 1025 frames in 5.0 seconds = 204.991 FPS 789 frames in 5.0 seconds = 157.792 FPS 972 frames in 5.0 seconds = 194.390 FPS 954 frames in 5.0 seconds = 190.791 FPS 1019 frames in 5.0 seconds = 203.791 FPS Pretty sad, but as I said the 3D games seem to work well anyway. Cheers, Bob Peter Bradley wrote:
Robert Lewis wrote:
I have an nvidia card and glxgears is also displaying painfully slow values however, all the 3D stuff works fast so glxgears is not dealing well with this card. Some friends nvidia card on SUSE 10.1 does will with glxgears just not mine.
I nosed around on the DVD for fgl_glxgears and on the WEB looking for it but can't find. Will fgl_glxgears work properly on nvidia and if so where do I get it to test?
Cheers, Bob
Me too - but only since I installed the latest ATI driver. Before that I was getting really good FPS rates. Having said that, the gears still seemed to be going at the same speed, so I wonder if something in the new drivers is affecting the FPS output.
I found fgl_glxgears already installed, with the new drivers:
peter@linux:~> locate fgl_glxgears /usr/X11R6/bin/fgl_glxgears peter@linux:~> which fgl_glxgears /usr/X11R6/bin/fgl_glxgears peter@linux:~> fgl_glxgears Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer 2618 frames in 5.0 seconds = 523.600 FPS 2928 frames in 5.0 seconds = 585.600 FPS 3201 frames in 5.0 seconds = 640.200 FPS 3210 frames in 5.0 seconds = 642.000 FPS 3213 frames in 5.0 seconds = 642.600 FPS 3206 frames in 5.0 seconds = 641.200 FPS 3193 frames in 5.0 seconds = 638.600 FPS peter@linux:~>
Still not brilliant, but better than glxgears reports.
HTH
Peter