Intel's Mesa Driver Gets New Performance Patch

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel's Mesa Driver Gets New Performance Patch

Intel's Mesa DRI driver received a new patch this weekend that's capable of enhancing the open-source graphics driver's performance for some OpenGL games...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTI3ODg

[martin21]

Hi!

Planeshift is generally fluent on Sandybridge in 1680x1050. As the patch description says what is really slow is casting a spell. For more details see:

Bug 59086 - Slow spell effects with Planeshift on Intel Sandybridge HD 3000 graphics
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/59086

And the patch indeed does help a lot.

Thanks,
Martin