..ati and nvdiea performance, was: FGFS

On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 15:42:29 -0700 (PDT), Chris wrote in message 
<[email protected]>:

> Hi Donn,
> 
> 
> I'm running openSUSE 11.4 x64 and have a few days old GIT version of
> fg as well as fgdata - few minor bugs when I run fg (missing hud
> features, cannot manually set visibility distance with Z/z) but not
> like you describe. I can tell you that KDE4 kwin does not play nice
> with OpenGL apps, although usually it just causes jerky or slow
> performance in those apps (not missing stuff).
> 
> Depending on your hardware you might want to try disabling or
> suspending Kwin desktop effects before running fg. My laptop is a
> Dell with 1920x1200 panel and GeForce 8600M GT - to get good
> fullscreen performance I *have* to disable kwin fx. 

..hum.  My laptop also has a 1920x1200 panel, but with ATI's
M56GL [Mobility FireGL V5200] on Intel's 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML 
and 945GT Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03) and Intel's
Core2 T7200, running KDE-4.6.3-1 on xorg1:7.6+6 on radeon1:6.14.2-1
from Debian Sid+Experimental, I just add --full-screen and fly.

..running FG windowed, cuts the framerate by about half,  
but FG remains flyable at 3 to 5fps, full screen is 8-20.  

..are you Chris getting similar performance?  
Have you tried X.org's nouveau driver?


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