fps question
 

I just installed redhat 9 and finally got the 3d to work for my radeon 9700pro... i used glxgears and managed to get a score of only 60fps! everyone else is posting like 2000 with geforce 2's and 3's i should be well above that with my card right??? i tried using glxinfo but that was just gobblygunk to me because i'm really new to linux!

i'm running :

p4 2.4b, msi mainboard 648
radeon9700pro
256mb ddr pc2100
2 x 40gB maxtor ata133 hd's
...

also i'm using a generic 'future power' el crappo 19" monitor at 1280x1024 resolution...

i would like to install winex really soon but i'm not going to try until i can get decent performance out of my computer.

thanks for the help,
Kevin

It doesnt sound like you have 3D acceleration going if you are only acheiving 60 FPS with glxgears.

Hallo.

I have also tested with glxgears :

with Athlon XP 1600+ and Radeon 9000

XFree86-4.3.0 - driver : 1000 FPS
fglrx-glc22 : 1500 FPS


with Athlon C 1300 and GeForce 2 Ti
nvidia-driver : 3200 FPS


It seems that Ati has poor drivers.


Tom

can you put the output of glxinfo on the forum? im pretty sure we could deduce from that if you have 3d-accel

glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
client glx vendor string: SGI
client glx version string: 1.2
client glx extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_ATI_pixel_format_float,
GLX_ATI_render_texture
GLX extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: FIRE GL 9000 Prototype DDR Athlon (3DNow!)
OpenGL version string: 1.3 (X4.3.0-3.2.5)
OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_EXT_texture_env_add, GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array,
GL_S3_s3tc, GL_ARB_point_parameters, GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp,
GL_ARB_texture_compression, GL_ARB_texture_cube_map,
GL_ARB_texture_env_add, GL_ARB_texture_env_combine,
GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar, GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3,
GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_ARB_transpose_matrix,
GL_ARB_vertex_blend, GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object, GL_ARB_vertex_program,
GL_ARB_window_pos, GL_ATI_element_array, GL_ATI_envmap_bumpmap,
GL_ATI_fragment_shader, GL_ATI_map_object_buffer,
GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3, GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once,
GL_ATI_vertex_array_object, GL_ATI_vertex_attrib_array_object,
GL_ATI_vertex_streams, GL_ATIX_texture_env_combine3,
GL_ATIX_texture_env_route, GL_ATIX_vertex_shader_output_point_size,
GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra, GL_EXT_blend_color, GL_EXT_blend_func_separate,
GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract, GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint,
GL_EXT_draw_range_elements, GL_EXT_fog_coord, GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays,
GL_EXT_packed_pixels, GL_EXT_point_parameters, GL_EXT_rescale_normal,
GL_EXT_polygon_offset, GL_EXT_secondary_color,
GL_EXT_separate_specular_color, GL_EXT_stencil_wrap,
GL_EXT_texgen_reflection, GL_EXT_texture3D,
GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc, GL_EXT_texture_cube_map,
GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_env_combine,
GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3, GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic,
GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias, GL_EXT_texture_object, GL_EXT_texture_rectangle,
GL_EXT_vertex_array, GL_EXT_vertex_shader, GL_HP_occlusion_test,
GL_NV_texgen_reflection, GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_occlusion_query,
GL_SGI_color_matrix, GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp,
GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp, GL_SGIS_texture_lod,
GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap, GL_SGIS_multitexture, GL_SUN_multi_draw_arrays
glu version: 1.3
glu extensions:
GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess

visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav
id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
0x23 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 1 0 Slow
0x24 24 tc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 1 0 Slow
0x25 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 1 0 Slow
0x26 24 tc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 1 0 Slow
0x27 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 1 0 None
0x28 24 tc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 1 0 None
0x29 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 None
0x2a 24 tc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 None
0x2b 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 1 0 Slow
0x2c 24 dc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 1 0 Slow
0x2d 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 1 0 Slow
0x2e 24 dc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 1 0 Slow
0x2f 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 1 0 None
0x30 24 dc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 1 0 None
0x31 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 None
0x32 24 dc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 None


Rebuild Kernel with Ati-Driver 3.2.5:

glxgears
8198 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1639.600 FPS
9424 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1884.800 FPS
9448 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1889.600 FPS
9448 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1889.600 FPS
9446 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1889.200 FPS

well things went bad to worse... i was getting 300 frames in 5 seconds : 60fps... which is way below par i realized...

well i restarted my computer after 'trying' to install winex and going into my non root account... well all of a sudden my 3d is totally off. I've tried getting it back to working and have been unsuccessful. I installed drivers, did all the ./make and ./make_install.sh stuff and ran fglrxconfig... NOTHING is working.

My only idea is that maybe my south bridge isn't very happy with me ? I have a MSI 648 mainboard (963l southbridge which is for some reason undetected).

I've tried going into the XF86Config-4 file and editing the vga part to fglrx, but that always changes back as well....

ARRRRGGGGGGG i'm so frustrated and need to get winex working for some projects by saturday night.

If anyone can help me i'd call you my new subject of worship and bow down to your precense!

If there is anything specific else you'd like to know, please tell me.

SYSTEM:
p4 2.4b on msi 648
256mB ddr266
2x40 gB ata133 hd's
ati 9700pro

Thanks again,
Kevin

can you use 3d hardware accel while you are root?