One advantage that the Nvida drivers give is a better use of the AGP interface. With the native drivers, the X gui seems much snappier. I enabled Nvida style Agp and played around with some of the options; I did'nt do much except leave the Agp interface under Nvidia control.
To me the gui seems quicker. But bear in mind that I have not run any formal benchmarks, so I don't have any concrete "beyond doubt" numbers for you; all I'm able to convey is a humanistic feel for the system being snappier; so take that for what it's worth. One thing that is beyond doubt, however, is that games like Quake3 and Baldur's Gate2 benefit in large degree from these drivers. So you can take that for what it's worth, also. On Sunday 10 February 2002 01:28, you wrote: *****snippers************ > > If I just restart X the problem persists. I never had this problem before, > just after getting things running on this new PC with the Nvidia card this > strange stuff started happening. And I still suspect that playing movies is > the problem. When I don't play movies I can easily get an uptime of 30+ > days. And when I get the UPS probably more, since the power here sometimes > disappears for a minute. > > Thanks for the help! > Paul _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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