On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 11:06:58AM -0400, Ingles, Raymond wrote: > > From: Alisdair McDiarmid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [...] > > I've got a PIII/450, 128MB, Diamond Viper 770 TNT2 system here > > running potato current and it's quite slow in X. Dragging windows > > around is slower than my PII/350 with a G200. > > This may not be totally suprising. Matrox is known for making some of > the fastest (2D) cards around.
Well, yes, but the Nvidia is a year newer and should be faster. Or at least roughly as fast. > However, while it may sometimes be noticeable, the difference > shouldn't be *obvious* in all circumstances. It seems to be. > > In addition, the GLX support on my G200 runs twice as quick as the > > TNT2. This is a pretty appalling situation, really. > > That's really suprising. My TNT card was noticeably faster than a > G200 playing Quake2, and that was with some older ALSA sound drivers > slowing things down. The G200 drivers have improved vastly recently. I get around 30fps on timedemos now. > Are you using the drivers (including the patched SVGA server) from > nVidia? No, because that software was incorporated into XFree86 3.3.5. > That may be faster in 2D, and should probably be faster in 3D. > Are you positive you're getting hardware acceleration on the > TNT2? Um, how can I tell? -- alisdair mcdiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ ]
