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Re: Any experience with new NVIDIA drivers? -- SOLVED!!



On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 12:53:04AM -0600, Dr. Aldo Medina wrote:
> > 
> > The funny thing is that "hardware" acceleration is about 2-3 times
> > slower than "software". Thanks any way, as I seem to remember something
> > in my previous machine (PII350, RH 6.2) about recommending using 16-bit
> > mode, as this is the accelerated bpp. I will try it and post the
> > results. Thank you very much.
> 
> Well, that was it. I remembered I read somewhere that NVIDIA's drivers
> only supported 16-bpp. I remember how my PII350 slowed almost to freeze
> in 24 or 8 bpp, so maybe what I'm watching is my PIII800 being able to
> maintain a very slow motion netherless. I tried 16-bpp instead 24-bpp,
> and IT WORKED!!!: Now I enjoy blazing speed even at 1600x1200. Thanks to
> all that tried to help me. As I side note I rechecked NVIDIA's doc and I
> didn't found any reference to this, even as I remember having read it
> back to 0.9-1 or 3.

I don't remember where, but I recall seeing somewhere a recommendation
that 24 bpp not be used with the NVIDIA cards.

Bob



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