GeForce4 MX 4000 - Poor performance

[soralx at cydem.org]

On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 21:42:28 +1300
"Daniel Kerse" <daniel.kerse at gmail.com> wrote:

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> I have a 64MB PCI graphics card[1] and the performance leaves much to
> be desired[2]. I was hoping someone could point me in the right
> direction towards improving this. I am currently using the nvidia
[...]
> 1942 frames in 5.0 seconds = 388.394 FPS
> 1988 frames in 5.0 seconds = 397.518 FPS
> 1981 frames in 5.0 seconds = 396.184 FPS
> 1920 frames in 5.0 seconds = 383.497 FPS
> 1685 frames in 5.1 seconds = 331.403 FPS
> 2030 frames in 5.0 seconds = 405.954 FPS
> 2754 frames in 5.0 seconds = 550.727 FPS
> 3410 frames in 5.0 seconds = 681.929 FPS
> 4738 frames in 5.1 seconds = 936.760 FPS
> 4838 frames in 5.0 seconds = 967.508 FPS
> 4780 frames in 5.0 seconds = 955.983 FPS
> 4891 frames in 5.0 seconds = 977.145 FPS

and you call this poor performance?! For comparison, my Matrox G550
does ~250-300 fps. Make sure to run glxgears when the system is idle,
though, because these figures aren't very useful (differ by factor >3).

Why do you need high performance anyway? Even with my card, there's no
lag runnig 'k3dsurf' full-screen in OpenGL mode, for example. As for
games, there's few for FBSD, and your card should do fine [sadly, the
only graphics-intensive simulator -- FlightGear -- has been always
broken on FreeBSD for me; these days it doesn't crash, but the frame
rate is still much to be desired (far less than 1) Totally useless :(]

[SorAlx]  ridin' VN1500-B2