Have not posted in about week, so I thought its about time I posted about an interesting application I found. Two weeks ago, I posted about getting 3D acceleration on the ATi Radeon Cards in Linux.

Today I was trying to find ways to get better performance out of my card. I eventually found a great application called DRIconf. This is the GUI configuration setting for the Direct Rendering which I had shown you two weeks ago.

driconf

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You can install DRIconf from the Ubuntu repositories (sudo apt-get install driconf). Once you have install, loaded the application up. There is only one option you want to change. Its the last one in the screenshot, HyperZ. This needs to be set to ‘Yes’. HyperZ is graphics processing technique which was developed by ATi, it was first implemented with the R100 cards (Radeon 7000series). It has been proven to give around a 20% performance increase, I have also seen about a 20% performance increase as well.

So if you want to get a faster Radeon card on Linux, try out DRIconf.

DRIconf wiki link