Kees Lemmens wrote: > On my rather new PIV Linux system with V6600 PCI-Express Nvidia card > and the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7167 driver FlightGear slowed down to > an unacceptable framerate (< 1fps) as soon as an airport became > visible.
I also have a Geforce 6600 in my desktop system, and saw the same issue. I discovered that it was fixed by ... > But ... yesterday I installed the latest NVIDIA-7667 driver and now > Flightgear works perfectly well on this system ! That. :) > Thanks to NVIDIA for their fine Linux drivers : many other videocard > vendors could learn a LOT from the way Nvidia supports Linux ! Well, to be fair, this *was* a performance regression in their drivers in the first place. Even better than fast releases would be drivers that had no bugs at all, or ones where we can try to fix the problems ourselves. NVidia supports Linux as well as they support windows, which is commendable, but for some of us not quite sufficient. I don't know what the problem was in the older driver. Presumably something in the airport scene was triggering a software rendering path. It's a driver bug, so we really don't have to concern ourselves with it. As you note, other cards with the same drivers (the Geforce 440 Go in my laptop, for instance) did not show the same issue. Andy _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
