From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 6 22:00:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84DD116A407 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 22:00:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from soralx@cydem.org) Received: from cydem.org (S0106000103ce4c9c.vc.shawcable.net [24.87.27.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAFA643E1B for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 21:37:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from soralx@cydem.org) Received: from freen0de (unknown [192.168.0.251]) by cydem.org (Postfix/FreeBSD) with ESMTP id 045C591ED4 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 13:37:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 13:37:29 -0800 From: To: Message-ID: <20061206133729.4015c98e@freen0de> In-Reply-To: <1fd935cc0612060042h302891fbo168f2ac6d804a564@mail.gmail.com> References: <1fd935cc0612060042h302891fbo168f2ac6d804a564@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.5.2 (GTK+ 2.10.6; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: GeForce4 MX 4000 - Poor performance X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 22:00:38 -0000 On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 21:42:28 +1300 "Daniel Kerse" wrote: > Hi List > > Please CC me in on any replies, I do not currently subscribe to this > list. > > I have a 64MB PCI graphics card[1] and the performance leaves much to > be desired[2]. I was hoping someone could point me in the right > direction towards improving this. I am currently using the nvidia [...] > 1942 frames in 5.0 seconds = 388.394 FPS > 1988 frames in 5.0 seconds = 397.518 FPS > 1981 frames in 5.0 seconds = 396.184 FPS > 1920 frames in 5.0 seconds = 383.497 FPS > 1685 frames in 5.1 seconds = 331.403 FPS > 2030 frames in 5.0 seconds = 405.954 FPS > 2754 frames in 5.0 seconds = 550.727 FPS > 3410 frames in 5.0 seconds = 681.929 FPS > 4738 frames in 5.1 seconds = 936.760 FPS > 4838 frames in 5.0 seconds = 967.508 FPS > 4780 frames in 5.0 seconds = 955.983 FPS > 4891 frames in 5.0 seconds = 977.145 FPS and you call this poor performance?! For comparison, my Matrox G550 does ~250-300 fps. Make sure to run glxgears when the system is idle, though, because these figures aren't very useful (differ by factor >3). Why do you need high performance anyway? Even with my card, there's no lag runnig 'k3dsurf' full-screen in OpenGL mode, for example. As for games, there's few for FBSD, and your card should do fine [sadly, the only graphics-intensive simulator -- FlightGear -- has been always broken on FreeBSD for me; these days it doesn't crash, but the frame rate is still much to be desired (far less than 1) Totally useless :(] [SorAlx] ridin' VN1500-B2