Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 16:18:15 +0200 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de> To: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org> Cc: Christian Chen <oistrakh@earthlink.net>, Kal Torak <kaltorak@quake.com.au>, FreeBSD-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: OT: nVidia Cards picture/driver quality Message-ID: <20010412161815.A95253@mail.webmonster.de> In-Reply-To: <3AD5B145.EF09CEA4@mitre.org>; from jandrese@mitre.org on Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 09:44:37AM -0400 References: <20010412000523.I86970-100000@pirastro.oistrakh.org> <3AD5B145.EF09CEA4@mitre.org>
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Andresen,Jason R.(jandrese@mitre.org)@2001.04.12 09:44:37 +0000: > You are right about the raster quality of the NVidia cards (Geforce > especially). As you probably know, NVidia liceneses out their chipset > (and a "reference board") to companies, and these companies do the > final board design and manufacture your card. Apparently even the > reference board from NVidia had rather bad raster issues, and most > manufacturers weren't really set up to fix them, so they basically > reproduced the reference board as is, leaving the problems in place. > Also, GeForce cards are pretty expensive if all you want to do with > them is sysadmin or do other 2D tasks. Warning: This paragraph > is third hand information, your accuracy may vary. you might also check out http://www.geocities.com/porotuner/imagequality.html wich conatins a not-so-nice (speak: ugly) mod involving handling of soldering irons but seems to work. /k > Finally, one really big downside for buying either card (if you are > a gamer) is that they are merely tested for "compatability" by most > game companies. This means it is all too common to find games tickling > bugs in your card (that NEVER get fixed, because they only really care > about the NVidia and 3dfx folks). I still have to downgrade my video > drivers to play some games (Star Trek Armada) and then upgrade them > again to play different games (Heavy Gear II), which is annoying to > say the least. the drivers that ocassoinally "leak" from invidia and show up on http://www.reactorcritical.com/ appear to work very reliable for me (10.80/11.01 for win2k) and they also fix the ugly 60hz default of the older reference drivers when switching to directx fullscreen to somewhat higher refresh rates (72..85Hz) /k -- > Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation ... the other eight > are unimportant. -- Henry Miller KR433/KR11-RIPE -- http://www.webmonster.de -- ftp://ftp.webmonster.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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