[ubuntu-uk] Application responsiveness, Windows and Ubuntu

[Stephen O'Neill]

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Chris Rowson wrote:
| I wondered if anyone else has tried this out or have any reasons why
| it would be so?


The only question which springs to my mind is whether you're using the
Mesa software graphics drivers or the binary drivers for your graphics card?

I think that this should give you a clue about which driver you are
definitely using (without poking around in xorg.conf).

$ glxinfo|grep vendor
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
client glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation


Plus to test your opengl performance you can run the following - if it's
really jerky then that's probably due to your graphics card:

$ glxgears

I get between 1500 and 2500 FPS for reference.

System->Administration->Restricted Drivers Manager is where I enabled my
binary Nvidia drivers - they aren't open source so Ubuntu disables them
by default.

I'm not an expert so I'm sure you'll get better advice but hopefully
this will get you started.

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Stephen O'Neill
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