Mesa 8.1 Will Offer Some Speed Improvements For Nouveau
The old OpenArena 0.8.5 game on the Nouveau driver slightly regresses on the newer Mesa/Gallium3D code.
The newer OpenArena 0.8.8 also regressed on Mesa 8.1-devel with Nouveau.
World of Padman saw nice OpenGL frame-rate gains on Mesa 8.1-devel except for the low-end 8400GS.