performance of GeForce2Go with Linux

meyerm

Hi out there,

I've got a Toshiba Satellite 3000-400 with a PIII-900, 256MB RAM and a 16MB GeForce2Go. It works quite well with the nvidia-drivers, but I'm not sure about the performance of my device. It gets around 650 fps in glxgears and is even in 640x480 in UT2003demo just "playable".

I would like to know if there is anybody else out there with this kind of machine and what performance he has got since some friends of mine are getting 1400fps and more with glxgears and the only relevant difference seems to be the 32 MB GeForce2Go (Dell Inspiron 8100).

Thanks,
Marcel

Malakin · Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2002 11:01 pm Post subject:

meyerm · Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2002 9:28 am Post subject:

Ooooook. Thanks. After changing to 16 Bit I get around 1130 fps with glxgears. Still not perfect. But in UT, which I already played with 16 Bit, I'm still having 15fps with 640x480 and almost all details off...

Can that be? Is it my notebook or is it some stupid config? (or the gentoo kernel - my friend's using debian and it plays very nice with 1024x768 and more details

)

taskara · Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2002 1:59 pm Post subject:

it may not be just your vid card, but your had disk speed or ram slowing you down in quake 3.

I get 1500 fps on glxgears with a 64mb gf2mx 400

so if you're getting close to that, then you're doing pretty well!

fryfrog · n00b Joined: 09 May 2002 Posts: 45

i get 5500fps with a gf4 ti4200 :)

Elsipkitch9809 · Apprentice Joined: 21 Jul 2002 Posts: 186

Yowsa!

That sounds pretty nice for a video card

If only the fps in glxgears were the same for other gl apps...

BTW, fryfrog, where did you get your ti4200 from? How many gold coins did that bring you down?

Hehe, I'm thinking about getting one of those cards for my desktop system, but don't want to pay like 400 dollars for it.

Malakin · Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2002 6:03 pm Post subject:

Elsipkitch9809 · Apprentice Joined: 21 Jul 2002 Posts: 186

I have a friend who is warning me that I should wait for nvidia to release a new card (because ati apparently just did). With any new cards, like he said, there should be a price drop in the older ones. I know he's right about that, but I don't know if it will end up being much of a price drop or whether it will be a loooong wait....

Any thoughts?

BoBB · Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2002 9:02 pm Post subject:

jesus christ guys, i only get about 80 fps in glxgears, i have a radeon 7000 ... they cant be THAT bad can they? and yes i do have all the hardware acceleration set up right

Elsipkitch9809 · Apprentice Joined: 21 Jul 2002 Posts: 186

Hi

Unfortunately, right now for linux ati is not the card you really want to get, unless its like the one or two cards they recently released that they made drivers for (don't know how good these are). But most ati cards use the DRI projects drivers, and although I appreciate some people working on them to get basic support for x, it still needs a lot of work before it can be used reliably (IMHO). I had the luck of buying a Radeon 64 MB DDR VIVO, and that works like crap in linux, its a totally random crash here or there, even if I thought about using 3d. The wonderful Black Screen of Death...ahh memories. I'm sure some people just have low acceleration, but I never even got glxgears or any 3d app to run before blacking out everything (basically taking away keyboard and mouse input, not allowing you to kill x).

I luckily had my old tnt2 card stashed away just in case, and its a decent card, even if it sells for like 14 bucks now. I can even play UT (the original) on it. I'm sorry to have to say this, but if you want 3d, either have a more supported card or dual boot to windows.

BoBB · Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2002 11:53 pm Post subject:

I had that same problem at first as well, the problem was i didn't have dri permissions set correctly in my XF86Config. it looks like this

koala · Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2002 12:04 pm Post subject:

Hmmm are these numbers running glxgears in a big window or the default size?

I've got a Dell Inspiron 2650 (Geforce2Go 2, glxinfo says GeForce2 MX/AGP/SSE2), and get about 625 fps on glxgears at the default size. Running 16 bit 1024x768, and with apparently full accel.

Any ideas?