today's performance results

[Roderick Colenbrander]

Setting the clocks must be performed using the gui. You need to have
the Coolbits option in your xorg.conf. It reminds me to still update
nvclock which can do this from cli fine ;)

Roderick

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 1:27 AM, Roderick Colenbrander
> <thunderbird2k at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On my laptop I also had some weird results in some game depending on
>> when I started it. In my case I suspected that the GPU wasn't at the
>> maximum clock speeds yet. Depending on what GPU you are using you
>> might also have '2d' and '3d' clocks. Try to force it to maximum
>> clocks using nvidia-settings.
>
> Thanks, I'll try.
>
> Looks like nvidia-settings can only read the clocks, not set them?
> nvidia-settings -q GPUPerfModes -t; nvidia-settings -q
> GPUCurrentPerfLevel -t; nvidia-settings -q GPUCurrentClockFreqs -t
> displays their current value.
>
> Setting them appears to require changing kernel
> module parameters (either in xorg.conf or /etc/modprobe.d/mumble).
> Related pages:
> http://tutanhamon.com.ua/technovodstvo/NVIDIA-UNIX-driver/
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24/+bug/164589
>