Tom wrote:
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 02:48:15PM -0600, Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote:Rob Sims wrote:On Thursday 09 October 2003 07:16 pm, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote:
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You can get the latest "unreleased" ATI drivers at: http://www.schneider-digital.de/html/download_ati.html
Cool. However, ATI has the drivers version 3.2.8 on their site, while Schneider has 3.0.2-x version. I usually tend to go with the manufacturer on this sort of version number difference. Is there some reason to why the version numbers are less on schneider-digital's site? TIA for that.
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Propriatary drivers for ATI don't bug me -- I mean, if the knowledge of how to make killer drivers was "in the general community", superfast graphics boards would be a dime a dozen. It is qualitatively different from netcards, hd controllers, even sound, cause it's so bleeding edge.
Oh, I am sorry if my mail seemed like I didn't like proprietary drivers or anything. I myself use the ATI proprietary drivers since they provide better 3d graphics speed.
Also, the point being with closed-source drivers is that even *if* somebody could tweak the drivers to get more speed, they are not able to since they don't have the specifications to the card and/or the source to the original manufacturers drivers.
-- Harshwardhan Nagaonkar Electrical Engineering Sysop Brigham Young University, UT-84602