[plug] New Linux Nvidia drivers

Carl Gherardi gherardi at cs.curtin.edu.au
Mon May 21 11:54:31 WST 2001


On Mon, 21 May 2001, Trevor Phillips wrote:

> Other than having to specify the use of AGPGART in the XFree config file (using
> the NvAGP var - RTFM), upgrading to these went fairly smoothly, and I'm now
> getting an extra 10FPS from Quake3 (800x600, max other settings except 16bit
> textures, on a 32MB GF2MX, I get around 65fps on demo001). It's also fixed a
> few other problems, too.
>
> Apparently, they also support some of the new GF3 features (before any Windows
> drivers)...

Seem to have fixed a large memory leak aswell, the problems i was
complaining about with XF86 seem to have gone now

Definetly a recommended upgrade

Carl




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