Re: [Sheflug] Riva TNT Drivers

[wulfie <nospam [at] wulfric7.co.uk>]

Are you actually running 3.3.5 or is this compatible with 3.3.6 ? I assume
the latter, since most X releases seem to simply expand the driver options
rather than do much "under the bonnet". Although I'm sure someone will
quickly prove me wrong..... :)

On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Craig Andrews wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> further to last Saturdays discussion of Riva TNT2 boards, and my misfortune
> of owning a TNT2-M64, I have a discovery:
> 
> I got the binary only XFree 3.3.5 driver from NVidia, removed X_SVGA from my
> system and installed it.
> 
> It seems to have a greater number of GL extensions supported than the last
> one, and is significantly faster. Also, the X_SVGA server is specifically
> accelerated for these cards,
> 
> As long as I turn of High Quality Skies (which are very slow for some
> reason) in Quake3, it is not just 'barely playable', a la yesterday
> afternoon, but 'ultimate fragfest' (well nearly. Not quite on a par with
> Sammy's SLI voodoo 2's yet ;-)
> 
> It seems that the Utah-GLX version of glx.so which comes with SuSE 6.3/4 is
> a generic version with limited support for a wide range of cards. The nvidia
> one is much more specific and provides a major performance boost. It also
> works with all versions of the TNT chipset, including TNT, TNT2, Vanta,
> Ultra, and yes, even M64!
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Craig
> 
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