I don't know about Nouveau, I played using r600c. Radeon drivers are in a better state than nouveau.
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I've read this all over the place, including on other Linux forums. "Compiz slows down your system" or "You can't play 3D games with Compiz." Who's coming up with this crap? I have 3 Linux systems installed on this computer, all of which run Gnome with Compiz enabled. I never have performance problems and I can play any games I want, including 3D games and I never notice a performance lag. Maybe it's my system, I am running a 1GB Nvidia graphics card and I have a dual core and 4 GB of system RAM, but I really don't know what all of the commotion about Compiz is. On my system, it works and it works well.
Now, if you want to talk performance lags, KWin is the one that gives my system fits (mostly because KDE still doesn't play nice with Nvidia.)
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Originally posted by SciFiDude79 View PostI've read this all over the place, including on other Linux forums. "Compiz slows down your system" or "You can't play 3D games with Compiz." Who's coming up with this crap? ...
But Michael's intent of the article was to dispell these issues.
Note that most of the talk now focuses on kwin's impact. The cycle continues...
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Originally posted by Wyatt View PostInteresting. I'd also be kind of interested in seeing the window manager tests expanded. Fluxbox, TWM, ratpoison, E17, etc.
Configure your system to match the system configuration under test highlighted in the article (compiz/metacity). Repeat the results for your particular environment by running the test as shown below.
Code:./phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1103109-IV-COMPIZTES51
Michael has started putting OpenBenchmarking.org links at the end of each article to let people play with the data. If your data is interesting, there might be a Phoronix review of the results, or a blog post on OpenBenchmarking.org
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Originally posted by pingufunkybeat View PostThey can handle much more complicated stuff than Quake3, though:
Doom3
Quake4
Penumbra games
Amnesia
These are not open source, but that's an issue with open source games, and not open source drivers.
Assets aren't free-as-in-freedom though this is true for Urabn Terror too, right?
So a benchmarking tool for Overture could be a project
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I Had made benchmarks with openarena, on my radeon RV620 chipset, opensource r600g driver.
(Archlinux with lastest mesa-git)
and with compiz enabled, it's always slower.
around 55fps without compiz (metacity without compositing? and 40fps with compiz enabled.
Same for all games i had tried (Hon,alienarena,doom3,....)
So, i really don't understand how phoronix can have twice more fps with compiz enabled.... (or maybe compositing is enabled in metacity)
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Originally posted by SciFiDude79 View PostI've read this all over the place, including on other Linux forums. "Compiz slows down your system" or "You can't play 3D games with Compiz." Who's coming up with this crap? I have 3 Linux systems installed on this computer, all of which run Gnome with Compiz enabled. I never have performance problems and I can play any games I want, including 3D games and I never notice a performance lag. Maybe it's my system, I am running a 1GB Nvidia graphics card and I have a dual core and 4 GB of system RAM, but I really don't know what all of the commotion about Compiz is. On my system, it works and it works well.
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Originally posted by spirit View PostSo, i really don't understand how phoronix can have twice more fps with compiz enabled.... (or maybe compositing is enabled in metacity)
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