"NoOp" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On 04/02/2012 12:39 PM, Chris Ilias wrote: > .... >> Whatever reasons you have for not updating your graphics driver, it >> something you should do. You can find instuctions at >> <http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-upgrade-my-graphics-drivers> >> > > Keep in mind that in many cases, the user is running the latest graphics > driver for their card. Example:
There is a newer video driver for this card but you are right that after about 1 to 1.5 years after you get the video card the last driver that works, and doesn't cause a bunch of problems, is issued. After that, nVidia may claim you can install a newer driver but if you do you will usually have lots of problems and have to uninstall it. I stopped upgrading the driver early though at only six months after I got this old computer when the newer driver would have worked fine except nVidia decided to force all of us who hated the new Vista nVidia panel (and thus we kept using the classic nVidia panel) to upgrade to the new vista panel which was missing about 50% of the options in the classic panel and which worked extremely, agonizingly slowly on XP computers like mine. The new panel was designed for Vista and Win 7. nvidia was very wrong to force XP users to the new panel like they did especially when using it lost us 50% of the functionality of the card and took away one of the main reasons I chose nVidia over ATI. Many of us simply did what I did and refused any further upgrades to our video driver so we could continue using the classic nVidia panel and we vented our anger and frustration in a thread that lasted many years and reached about 1000 posts at nVidia official forums. I did continue though to upgrade the driver package for audio, ethernet, SMBus, SATA IDE and SATA RAID, etc. for the nVidia mobo but there were only a few of those. > > Graphics > Adapter DescriptionNVIDIA Corporation -- Quadro4 900 XGL/AGP/SSE2Driver > Version1.5.8 NVIDIA 96.43.19 > WebGL RendererBlocked for your graphics driver version. Try updating > your graphics driver to version NVIDIA 257.21 or newer. > GPU Accelerated Windows0. Blocked for your graphics driver version. Try > updating your graphics driver to version NVIDIA 257.21 or newer. > Note: I also have .20 installed on the same machine. > <http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-ia32-96.43.20-driver.html> > > 96.43.19 *is* the current version for that card (linux). The boilerplate > "NVIDIA 257.21 or newer" is nonsense as that driver doesn't work with > the Quadro4 900 XGL. > The version that I have installed on WinXP (Version: 91.36) *is* the > current WinXP driver. <http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_91.36.html> > > Fact of the matter is that my Quadro4 will never support WebGL. Reason > being is that, even if the hardware supported it, nVidia will never > update the driver to do so. The card simply is too old and they would > rather sell new cards (understandably). > The card works just fine for me; Supports OpenGL & GLX, I can rotate > my desktops in 3D, use 3D graphics for CAD and other programs, etc. So I > see no reason to go spend additional $$ to buy one simply to run WebGL. > _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
