NVIDIA with games experience....
Bikehead
bikehead at amberpoint.com
Wed Oct 6 22:20:58 UTC 2004
I'm talking about the one from nvidia.com ("nvidia"). I'm sure its
being used by X since I get the splash screen.
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_-\<,_ Brian
(_)/ (_) bikehead at amberpoint.com x503
Jim Martin wrote:
> Are you talking about the default nvidia driver? or the one from
> nvidia.com?
>
> I use the nvidia driver from nvidia.com and all my games work great,
> both native and wine based. I have no problems at all.
>
> I believe the nvidia (nv) driver that comes with linux is not the best
> driver available, it does not ( that I know of) support enhanced
> graphics, or openGL. of course, i could be wrong.
>
> BaVinic
>
> Bikehead wrote:
>
>> I was wondering if anyone had any experience with using the NVIDIA
>> driver undet FC3 using a game. I can use the NVIDIA driver under FC3
>> sync'ed up to the latest rawhide for the normal desktop. However,
>> when I use neverwinter nights, FPS performance is very bad: about a
>> frame a second. I guess I should be fairly happy it runs at all!
>>
>> I do have to run the game as root to overcome some permission
>> problems with the NVIDIA devices. Other than that the game doesn't
>> complain about anything, but display performance is slow.
>>
>> Any comments or suggestions are welcome.
>>
>
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