I upgraded my Dapper and imagine my surprise...

[Derek Broughton]

paul cooke wrote:

> On Friday 10 February 2006 14:41, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
>>
>> OK, why not?  If 3D functionality is now included in the nv driver what
>> does having the nVidia legacy driver do for one?  And is this change
>> going to go forward?  If so, a lot of nVidia users would like to know
>> about it, I'm sure.
> 
> It's software 3D (extremely slow), NOT accelerated 3D... for that you have
> to use the nvidia driver, NOT the nv driver.
> 
> come back to us with your glxgears frame rate under that software 3D...
> and we'll have a laugh... :)
> 
> ps. to get the glxgears frame rate use the following command:
> glxgears -printfps
> 
> this is what I get with the nvidia driver:
> |paulc at broken-drum:~$ glxgears -printfps
> |13586 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2717.025 FPS
> windowed

Cool.  I have never paid much attention to 3d - after all, I'm using an
integrated Intel915 video on a low-end laptop, so I wouldn't expect much,
but this test gave a consistent 1085FPS (+/-1%) on my Dell Inspiron 60000. 
I'm pleasantly surprised (over my FreeNX connection, it's 40FPS!).
-- 
derek