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[Lars Noschinski]

* Jerome Glisse <j.glisse at gmail.com> [2006-08-29 16:42]:
>On 8/28/06, kr992 <kr992 at interia.pl> wrote:
>> Can someone tell me why in linux 915gm sucks ?
>>or why drivers are so poor?
>
>Before critizing the driver have you double checked that acceleration was
>enabled. Does glxinfo tell you direct rendering yes ? If it tells no check the
>output of (at the top):
>LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo
>Also check that in your xorg log you got direct rendering enabled message.

I never had the chance to try 915GM's 3D performance under windows, but it
feels very slow; neither Quake 2 or 3 was running remotely fluent with
3D acceleration (although Quake 2 runs (ugly) at 50 fps with software 3d).

I'd assume the 915GM to be able to run a 7 years old game fluently?