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Re: Matrox G450 hw acceleration?



High,

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, [iso-8859-1] Terje Fåberg wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I just installed flightgear on my sarge system and
> discovered it it running with approx 1 frame per
> second.
>
> Honestly, I'm not sure whether my system runs
> with hw acceleration or not. How can I find out
> if I use sw or hw rendering?
>
Type 'glxinfo'. If there is a line with this:
direct rendering: Yes
(3rd line usually) then you have hardware accelleration enabled.

> "glxgears" gives me 205 fps on this P3-866 with
> a matrox G450. Is this accelerated?
>
Not sure. I have hardware acceleration and a heavy card (GF4), but it
never goes faster than 200 FPS (standard window size). No idea what to do
about it (hints?) but tuxracer works fine :)

Greetz,
Sebas


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