Question for those using an ATI AGP-(specifically the Radeon 9200)

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Norman Silverstone Wrote: 
> On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 19:51 +0100, Norman Silverstone wrote:

> > On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 10:19 -0700, AA wrote:

> > > Hello all, I have a question about my ATI Radeon 9200

> > > 128mb AGP.  

> > 

> > > 3569 frames in 5.0 seconds = 713.800 FPS

> > > 3630 frames in 5.0 seconds = 726.000 FPS

> > 

> > > Does anyone acctually use the same ATI card as me, and

> > > if so which drivers and what framerates do you get

> > > from it?  I may just have something turned off or

> > > configured improperly, so I would like to compare

> > > notes with another user.

> > > Thanks in advance, 

> > 

> > I have the same Radeon as you and recorded the following results:-

> > 

> > 7287 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1457.400 FPS

> > 7287 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1457.400 FPS

> > 7283 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1456.600 FPS

> 

> I have just realised that I might be misleading you. When I run
> glxgears

> they appear in a small window and that was when I took the
> measurments.

> However, when I maximise to fill the whole screen the rate falls

> considerably to:-

> 

> 585 frames in 5.0 seconds = 117.000 FPS

> 585 frames in 5.0 seconds = 117.000 FPS

> 585 frames in 5.0 seconds = 117.000 FPS

> 

> Hope this makes sense to you.

> 

> Norman

> 

> 

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I get very similar results to norman silverstone with a small window
fps of about 1400 and maximised down to as low as 70fps.



Before doing a dpkg-reconfigure xserver xorg yesterday I had frame
rates of only about 90 even when glxgears was small.  At that time I
tried to run foobillard (a pool & snooker game) and couldn't get it to
run sensibly at all.  This all followed an attempt to install fglrx
drivers from synaptic which went horribly wrong.  Before trying to add
fglrx I had the ati driver shown in xorg.conf and all seemed OK, so the
fglrx seems to be the culprit.  I had even seriously considered
reformatting and reinstalling Breezy this morning but it looks as
though I can play the waiting game for the moment and keep my fingers
crossed that everything continues as it is now.  I'm not a real game
player as you can probably see from the game mentioned above and the
frame rate I'm getting now is OK for me.



The moral of this story?  Be careful with installs of the fglrx driver.


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ajgreeny