Recommended AGP Nvidia card?

Kirk Strauser kirk at strauser.com
Thu Sep 22 07:29:27 PDT 2005


On Thursday 22 September 2005 01:58, you wrote:

> Have you checked the docs for the nvidia drivers?  All geforce series
> should have full, or near full, hardware acceleration since nvidia
> releases there own closed source drivers.

It's better than nothing, mostly, but still not up to par.  There's a driver 
option called "RenderAccel" that makes it many times faster in certain 
operations, including ones that average users do a lot (like switching 
screens).  Certain eye candy features like the ones offered by the 
"Composite" extension are completely unbearable without it.

And that's the problem.  RenderAccel hasn't worked on the MX 400s I own (one 
in a FreeBSD machine, one in a Linux box) in quite a few months.  I can't 
downgrade at all on the Linux box because the most recent version of the 
Nvidia driver that supports RenderAccel without crashing won't run on 
recent kernels.  That's the main reason I'm shopping for replacements - my 
hardware isn't as usable as it was six months ago.
-- 
Kirk Strauser
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