plus there is a certain machismo element to the number of FPS your card can render...
--- Mike Mestnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Felix Kühling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 12:10:05 -0700 (PDT) > > Alex Deucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > you need to change the DRI config settings: > > > > > > > http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/ConfigurationInfrastructure > > > > > > perhaps we shouldn't make sync to refresh the default. > > > > IIRC there was a similar discussion after the texmem-0-0-1 merge. I > was > > hoping that a well defined configuration system would finally allow > us > > to make the default comply with the spec. The default setting > should not > > affect the frame rate if it was below the vertical refresh rate > without > > vsyncing. Only for benchmarks it is useful to disable vsync. For > > everyday work/game play you never need more than 75 or 80 Hz, do > you? > > > > > > > > Alex > > > > Regards, > > Felix > > > There may be allot I don't know about OpenGL, but I do know video > games. In games you want to > hear/see the latesed info about game state that exists, this > adds(subtracts) to your hand eye > cordination(Things like network anticipation are great). You also > want what you hear to be > synched with what you see. It's important for these 2 reasons that > OpenGL allways present the user > with the most current data. > > The way things should work is... > The card tells the game when the NEXT vsync should happen, deduced by > Current + RefreshRate. Then > the game should predict what things will look like and send that to > the card to be rendered. > > However things AFAICG work... > The game renderes as many FPS as the card can and the card draws the > last one to the sceen. Maby > not the best way but the most feasable with what(drivers) we have > today. > > Thus synch to vblank ?may? make frames appere 1/RefreshRate of a > seconds too late. Thought for > most gamers this may be fine, I think my eyes are faster. > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search > http://shopping.yahoo.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email sponsored by: Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & > Expo > The Event For Linux Datacenter Solutions & Strategies in The > Enterprise > Linux in the Boardroom; in the Front Office; & in the Server Room > http://www.enterpriselinuxforum.com > _______________________________________________ > Dri-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email sponsored by: Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo The Event For Linux Datacenter Solutions & Strategies in The Enterprise Linux in the Boardroom; in the Front Office; & in the Server Room http://www.enterpriselinuxforum.com _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
