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Originally posted by birdie View Postplease, add CPU usage stats.
But good to see the free drivers catching up, so soon <R600 users won't miss much performance. Though the classic mesa stuff seemed to be quite ok, too. And nobody has to stay with an outdated fglrx/distributionfor performance anymore.Stop TCPA, stupid software patents and corrupt politicians!
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Marek, does adding multi-threading to Mesa will improve things much? I think returning sooner in gl* calls(in which that makes sense ofcourse) in the 3D app, and do driver work in separate thread(s) will improve speed of command stream flow. I am by no means 3D developer(driver or app), but my threading background from other areas tells me that. Is that right?
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I have an R350 LOL... on an AGP 2x board with dual PII .. its horribly under powered cpu wise... so multithreading with definitely help. Still haven't tried the recent updates I bet they will help alot.
openarena does good to hit 15-20fps at the very lowest settings it is the atlantis model of the 9800 though so its not nearly as fast as the 9800 with the usual 256bit memory bus anyway.
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Originally posted by L33F3R View Postraise your hand if you bout an r300 card in the last 5 years.
And some of these optimisations will eventually land in the r600g driver, which supports everything after that.
So it's very much relevant, even if you don't think that it's excellent that they can match the proprietary driver already, which is quite a feat.
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