945GM(E) screen rotation and slow GL.

Vedran Rodic vrodic at gmail.com
Wed Jan 14 11:39:55 PST 2009


I've done tests in Second Life where the framerate in Linux is about
2x worse than in Windows.

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Mateusz Kaduk <mateusz.kaduk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/1/14 Vedran Rodic <vrodic at gmail.com>
>>
>> Probably unrelated, but the old 915tex driver had about 50% better
>> framerate in glxgears than either the old Mesa driver, or the current.
>> Of course, this driver is now obsolete. Do you have any idea why was
>> that driver so much faster? If I remember correctly, the performance
>> improvement was also visible in quake3.
>
> afaik glxgears now is vblank synced by default and someone even wrote its
> not a benchmarking tool. You can disable vblank syncing with dri-conf. When
> it comes to openarena, regnum-online, nexuiz without GLSL it preformes fine
> and is pretty playable on GM965. Windows does not preform that much faster
> and no tests were done to show real difference.
>
>



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