[ut2003io] Linux Performance

[Dana Olson]

On Sun, 2003-05-25 at 02:27, David Krider wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-05-25 at 01:11, Dana Olson wrote:
> > On my system, I have to put:
> > 
> >     Option      "NvAGP" "1"
> > 
> > To get decent frame rates in the game.
> > 
> > I can't recall what 3 is, so maybe that won't help. Sorry if that's the
> > case.
> 
> "1" enables agp. "2" enables agpgart. According to the NVidia driver
> README, "3" allows the system to try agpgart, but fallback to agp if
> that fails. I just tried "1," since, after all, I had tried "2" and "3."
> I went from 79 to 47 fps in antalus-flyby. Does your system not do
> agpgart? It's apparently much faster than "regular" agp (only now do I
> see just how much on my system), though I have _zero_ knowledge of the
> difference.
> 
> dk

I think when you say "agp" you mean NVIDIA's AGP driver. That's the one
I use, and it gives me the best performance. It depends on your chipset,
really.

Check:

cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/*

Fast Writes:     Supported
SBA:             Supported
AGP Rates:       4x 2x 1x 
Registers:       0x1f000217:0x1f000314
Host Bridge:     VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133]
Fast Writes:     Supported
SBA:             Supported
AGP Rates:       4x 2x 1x 
Registers:       0x1f000217:0x00000314
Status:          Enabled
Driver:          NVIDIA
AGP Rate:        4x
Fast Writes:     Enabled
SBA:             Enabled