On Aug 14, 06 20:04:23 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
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.
People also believe that a processor is faster than another if it has more MHz...
I tend to believe that glxgears cheats.
It does not. How could it? It just renders a few triangles and does a glxSwapBuffer(). The drivers can 'cheat'. E.g. by default sync-to-vb is on for DRI drivers, but off for glxgears (/etc/drirc) (because people would complain only getting 60fps).
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.
I don't know that one. Does it use textures? Then the software solution will be dramatically slower than w/o textures.
UT has a software renderer, and runs ... somewhat decent on a PII 233 MHz (tested on Windows, though).
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