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light_angelbr

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Registered: 2008-07-26

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[SOLVED] Low FPS FX 5200

Hi guys I'm using Arch linux about two months and I see that many people get more fps than me with the same card (FX 5200).

My PC config is:

AMD DUron processor 1.8 Ghz
Nvidia FX 5200 128 MB AGP 8X
Motherboard PCCHIPS M810 v 7,1a
HD IDE 80 GB.
Sound Blaster live! 32 Bits
512 MB RAM. 512 MB of swap.

This is my lspci | grep -i vga

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)

and pacman -Q | grep -i nvidia

nvidia-173xx 173.14.12-1
nvidia-173xx-utils 173.14.12-1

And this is my glxgears output:

glxinfo | grep direct

direct rendering: Yes

2249 frames in 5.0 seconds = 449.762 FPS
2319 frames in 5.0 seconds = 463.681 FPS
2315 frames in 5.0 seconds = 462.875 FPS
2327 frames in 5.0 seconds = 465.232 FPS

I think that is not enough FPS that my video card can do, anybody have anything to up the performance of my nvidia?

Last edited by light_angelbr (2008-10-14 22:48:19)

light_angelbr

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Re: [SOLVED] Low FPS FX 5200

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haxit

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Registered: 2008-03-04

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Re: [SOLVED] Low FPS FX 5200

GLXGears should not be used to benchmark I have 8800gt 512mb, and my output is:

~ > glxgears
9979 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1995.762 FPS
10707 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2141.353 FPS
10561 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2111.384 FPS

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Pierre

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Registered: 2004-07-05

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Re: [SOLVED] Low FPS FX 5200

Indeed. Don't trust glxgears. My 7800GT has this results:

65135 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13026.812 FPS
65160 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13031.942 FPS
65122 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13024.328 FPS

What does this mean? Nothing. Of course a Geforce 7 is not 6 times faster than the 8 series. :-)

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haxit

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Re: [SOLVED] Low FPS FX 5200

Indeed. Don't trust glxgears. My 7800GT has this results:

65135 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13026.812 FPS
65160 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13031.942 FPS
65122 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13024.328 FPS

What does this mean? Nothing. Of course a Geforce 7 is not 6 times faster than the 8 series. :-)

How did you get it that fast?

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sandstorm

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From: Zurich [CH] & Mannheim [DE]

Registered: 2005-08-13

Posts: 169

Re: [SOLVED] Low FPS FX 5200

My 6800 says

43657 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8731.388 FPS
42953 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8590.477 FPS
42537 frames in 5.0 seconds = 8507.348 FPS

I mean, it is obvious, but did you start nvidia-xconfig and nvidia-settings? Which environment do you have?

Best regards,
Martin

zenos

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Registered: 2008-09-23

Posts: 23

Re: [SOLVED] Low FPS FX 5200

glxgears varies alot.

1291 frames in 5.0 seconds = 258.072 FPS
1294 frames in 5.0 seconds = 258.674 FPS
1179 frames in 5.0 seconds = 235.796 FPS
1262 frames in 5.0 seconds = 252.295 FPS
1258 frames in 5.0 seconds = 251.504 FPS
1207 frames in 5.0 seconds = 241.389 FPS
1227 frames in 5.0 seconds = 245.263 FPS
1239 frames in 5.0 seconds = 247.694 FPS
5379 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1075.774 FPS
18988 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3797.545 FPS
16749 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3342.604 FPS
14015 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2802.979 FPS
22286 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4457.125 FPS
35133 frames in 5.0 seconds = 7026.586 FPS
35493 frames in 5.0 seconds = 7098.469 FPS

all from one session. playing with the glxgears window. turning off composite etc....btw this is on a nvidia fx 5500.

Pierre

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From: Bonn

Registered: 2004-07-05

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Re: [SOLVED] Low FPS FX 5200

Indeed. Don't trust glxgears. My 7800GT has this results:

65135 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13026.812 FPS
65160 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13031.942 FPS
65122 frames in 5.0 seconds = 13024.328 FPS

What does this mean? Nothing. Of course a Geforce 7 is not 6 times faster than the 8 series. :-)

How did you get it that fast?

Nothing. I just opened a konsole in kde and typed in glxgears. But as I said: this does not mean anything. Better check with some games like nexuiz etc..

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light_angelbr

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Registered: 2008-07-26

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Re: [SOLVED] Low FPS FX 5200

Thank you for yours help.

I made a test with nexiuz and run normally with only one lag  sometimes.

I think its working ok, thank you!

PS: if anybody tell me how to put [SOLVED] to post title I thanks.

Last edited by light_angelbr (2008-10-14 18:52:26)

creslin

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Re: [SOLVED] Low FPS FX 5200

You can use the 'Edit' link of the first post.

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