I'm really new to Ubuntu and am trying to get my video card to get a better FPS. A friend of mine (who is decent with Linux) had my card running at 9000+ FPS. We, however, had to reinstall Ubuntu and cannot figure out the configuration for the driver that we had before. My FPS is now only in the low triple digits (250-300). I have an 128MB ATI Radeon 9200 All-In-Wonder. I've tried 3 different drivers "ati", "radeon" & "fglrx", in the XF86Config-4 file. Am currently running XFree86. I appreciate any help!

How did you ever get the 9000 FPS i dont think thats poosible the refresh rate on monitors wouldnt take it

and 300 FPS isnt bad at all

what kind of GFX card do you have and what kind of drivers are you using right now?

If I knew how to get back to 9000 FPS I'd tell the world how... unfortunately I'm trying to get back there. 300FPS is HORRIBLE! Especially with my video card. I have a ATI Radeon ALL-IN-WONDER 9200. Using the standard ati driver that Ubuntu pre-installs.

did you run top and see if any processes are blocking it?

Never knew this was a command, so I don't know what exactly what I'm looking for. And if I did how to fix it.

user@user:~ $ top

top - 07:15:43 up 11 min, 2 users, load average: 0.09, 0.19, 0.11
Tasks: 72 total, 1 running, 71 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 3.3% us, 0.7% sy, 0.0% ni, 95.7% id, 0.0% wa, 0.3% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 516008k total, 360492k used, 155516k free, 52884k buffers
Swap: 500432k total, 0k used, 500432k free, 132980k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
7013 root 15 0 159m 17m 5864 S 2.3 3.5 0:05.07 XFree86
11500 nasti 15 0 31820 12m 8328 S 1.0 2.5 0:00.96 gnome-terminal
11380 nasti 15 0 12812 7284 5864 S 0.3 1.4 0:00.36 metacity
1 root 16 0 1548 504 444 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.54 init
2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
3 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 events/0
4 root 14 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 khelper
22 root 14 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
95 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.08 kblockd/0
133 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush
134 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush
136 root 6 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0
135 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kswapd0
724 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod
1093 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kjournald
1119 root 8 -10 1528 360 288 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.02 udevd
2808 root 22 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khpsbpkt

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