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03-15-2002, 06:58 PM

Is there a quick and dirty way to tell if openGL is using hardware acceleration? I'm only drawing about 1500 polys (triangles) and the frame rate seems rather slow. (about 24fps with a GeForce2/mx200 - 650P3)

rts

03-15-2002, 07:22 PM

Originally posted by whammy:
Is there a quick and dirty way to tell if openGL is using hardware acceleration? I'm only drawing about 1500 polys (triangles) and the frame rate seems rather slow. (about 24fps with a GeForce2/mx200 - 650P3)

$ glxinfo | grep "direct rendering"
direct rendering: Yes

If you see "no", you aren't HW accelerated.