video performance

zeky · Posted: Fri May 02, 2003 5:41 pm Post subject: video performance

Hey!

I have Nvidia geforce2 64M in my box. Althought i'm not using nvidia "nvdriver" drivers and don't have support for GLX in my X config everything works fine.

My Q is, is it better for me to have GLX support in X and nvidia drivers better than using nv driver? Will i see/feel the difference? I never plan to play any games on this box, it's just a normal workstation for me @ home. But i want to squezze 100% of my graphic card!

Well, what's the difference of having nv driver and having nvidia drivers (and kernel) and GLX support in X ? :roll:

thanx, zeky

magnet · Guru Joined: 16 Mar 2003 Posts: 582 Location: france

using nvidia driver and GLX should give better performance, and OpenGL support.
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patrickc · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2003 Posts: 49 Location: atlanta, ga

i don't have any experience with the nv driver, except that i could never get it to work because dell is so nice that they won't release the specs to my lcd (horiz. sync and vert. refresh). however, i would imagine that the 2d performance would be better for the 'nvidia' drivers, as well as the 3d aspect improving 10 fold, or maybe even being existant (can't even recall if 'nv' even supports 3d, period). however, it's a very easy process. these also worked for me since the drivers use EDIDS (may also be available in the 'nv' driver, again not sure) so it was able to poll my lcd and get the required sync/refresh rates for me.

zeky · Posted: Fri May 02, 2003 7:07 pm Post subject:

very good! I've tryed the new 43* version of drivers and took me about 3 minutes to emerge and manage it to work... I remember a had a huge problems with previous version of nvidia drivers. But this one works great 4 me.

cheers