My GLXGears never sounds impressive!

[tornadof3]

Hello

For years, on various machines, I have watched other people posing their output from glxgears FPS and I am left astonished since mine is never even close to that!

I now have a beast of a machine (quad core ivy bridge i7@3.4GHz, 16GB RAM) and I have just put a graphics card in - not the best, but still pretty good - GeForce 210 1GB. After *finally* getting the nvidia drivers working on 12.10, my lxgears gives around 60 frames per second.

I know glxgears isn't a good benchmark but I would just, for once, love to see the "thousands" of FPS other users see. I think the problem is it running synchronised to the monitor refresh, but

export vblank_mode=0
glxgears

had no effect on the FPS. Also, I get an error

Running synchronized to the vertical refresh.  The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
294 frames in 5.0 seconds = 58.659 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.999 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.000 FPS
299 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.792 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.008 FPS
XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0"
      after 50 requests (50 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

Any ideas?

[idoitprone]

Hello

For years, on various machines, I have watched other people posing their output from glxgears FPS and I am left astonished since mine is never even close to that!

I now have a beast of a machine (quad core ivy bridge i7@3.4GHz, 16GB RAM) and I have just put a graphics card in - not the best, but still pretty good - GeForce 210 1GB. After *finally* getting the nvidia drivers working on 12.10, my lxgears gives around 60 frames per second.

I know glxgears isn't a good benchmark but I would just, for once, love to see the "thousands" of FPS other users see. I think the problem is it running synchronised to the monitor refresh, but

export vblank_mode=0
glxgears

had no effect on the FPS. Also, I get an error

Running synchronized to the vertical refresh.  The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
294 frames in 5.0 seconds = 58.659 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.999 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.000 FPS
299 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.792 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.008 FPS
XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0"
      after 50 requests (50 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

Any ideas?

some people glxgears are capped at 60fps

[MG&TL]

It's not a good benchmark, but if you still want to, you'll want to disable the "sync to vblank" option in your Nvidia settings dialog.

Sync to VBlank just syncs your graphics card's redraw to the monitor refresh, so you'll get capped at around 60 fps.

[tornadof3]

Thank you sir! That did it ... now getting around 1800+ FPS on a 1920x1080 display. Thanking you kindly!