glxgears is 5 times faster than mine. So it’s possible that you already have agp8x.
I’ve got a geforce fx on agp 8x, and I’m around 2200 fps with glxgears without changing its default size.
The opengl renderer string is not intended to specifiy the agp rate, but the card you are using. It is not intended to be changed even if you switch your agp rate to another value.
Maybe ATI or Mesa provides some stuffs to ask for the AGP rate and other informations. For Nvidia, for example, it is stores in /proc/drivers/nvidia/.
Try out some demo, or try to switch your agp to 1x inside your bios to know more about that.
Originally posted by PkK:
[b]For the driver he is using the renderer string does contain the AGP rate.
It can be changed in /etc/X11/XFree86Config-4: Add
Option “AGPMode” “4”
to the Device section.
I recommend trying 4x mode first, since 8x has been reported to be unstable on lots of motherboards.[/b]
Sorry for that unknowledge.
Don’t worry about glxgears framerates. It is rather useless as a benchmark these days. Try the SPEC Viewperf or Doom 3 if you want to compare your card to others.
Originally posted by PkK: Don’t worry about glxgears framerates. It is rather useless as a benchmark these days. Try the SPEC Viewperf or Doom 3 if you want to compare your card to others.
Yes, but how to accept that there is a factor of 5 without wondering why, at least a little ??? Tell me.
Quite recent games don’t have much problem to run efficiently. However my geforce limits the possibilities, I know. But for me and actually, that cannot explain a so big difference.
Yep 55000 frames …
but not from the beginnig .
Have some pacience when run glxgears .
from begin glxgears have 4-5000 frames but in time
is bigger …
i make some change and my TUX is death so going to try to change my linux and install gentoo.
I understand is better but more hard to install.
Sorry for my english i try the best…!
With Yoper glxgears is moreeeeeeee
my configuration si
motherboard gigabyte 7N400L
cpu Athlon Barton 2800 overclock (change my old athlon palomino yesterday)
512 ddram pqi dual channels
hdd WD 40 Gb / quantum 30 GB
Video ati 9200SE (hope to change to innod 3d 5700ultra)
DVD and CDWRITER …
oldiest power source machintos just for 4 fans fdd only for decorations …
I have compiled a new kernel (2.6.10), and it’s now around 13% faster (glxgears and common 3D programs like ut).
It’s now getting around 2550 fps, but I don’t wait so much time (30 sec).
Maybe then your graphic card is the source of that incredible fps. This simply cannot be your RAM and dual DDR just because glxgears doesn’t use it very much.
Compared to todays applications glygears draws very little geometry. For a normal application drawing stuff takes most of the time, while the time spent swapping or clearing the buffers isn’t very important.
Since the drawing done by glxgears is so simple suddenly the time spent with buffer clears and swaps makes up most of the time.
That’s why I said glxgears is a bad benchmark.
By the way, you could get a further speedup besides AGP 4x by enabling PageFlip. It goes into the same section as you AGP rate change:
fdd only for decorations …