[luau] Comparative Nvidia speeds

[Jeff Mings]

    Actually, after Nvidia implemented page flipping in the Linux 
drivers like the Windoze drivers have all along, one of the hardware 
sites (tom'shardware or someone like that) ran speed tests and found 
that Linux (I believe with RH7.2) was almost always faster than Windoze 
XP on the same machine, and in many cases, as fast as Windoze 2K.
    I doubt that these comparisons were done "full throttle" which is 
what I meant by "Linux has a speed edge over Win98".  I.e., when I turn 
off all of the background daemons (sshd, atd, crond, the entire USB 
subsystem, etc ) and run in TWM instead of KDE, I'm able to operate with 
a _very_ lean OS and dramatically improve frame rates over my normal 
config.  Of course, Win98 doesn't let you turn very many things off.
    And yes, I run a GeForce 3 TI 200 on my ancient but surprisingly 
capable K6-2 550.

-Jeff


Warren Togami wrote:
Do you have an NVidia video card?

>The higher 3D speed in Linux is only due to the high quality NVidia
>drivers.  They are from the same code base as the Windows drivers, with
>a few Windows specific features removed because they are not needed. It
>is mainly due to these missing pieces they actually run faster than the
>Windows versions.  The NVidia drivers is the absolute highest quality
>OpenGL implementation on Linux.
>
>While the Linux platform itself would add some to game and graphics
>performance, the open source DRI drivers for other video cards are
>nowhere near the quality and optimizations of the closed source NVidia
>drivers. For this reason I don't think it is possible to have a
>non-NVidia card run faster in Linux than Windows at the moment.
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