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Dirhael

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From: /cold/north

Registered: 2008-03-12

Posts: 46

Re: Nvidia 3D driver driving me crazy

nvidia 173.08 is out - it fixes the sky in ut2004, finally. Give it a try.

lib32-nvidia-utils-173.08 is available pre-compiled here

Tested that driver earlier today but unfortunately is was painfully slow compared to the 171.06 beta driver (at least on my 8800gts 640mb), and not only in 3d. 2D/GTK performance dropped to around 50-60% of what the previous version was able to do (according to gtkperf). The performance drop is bad enough to notice even without benchmarks and gaming sessions...

Yes, I am using an LCD monitor and it's connected with a DVI cable. It's a BenQ fp202w to be exact.

I put my resolutions, and the EDID/DPI options into the xorg.conf, but no dice. The latest nvidia drivers seemed to have no effect. I'm messing around with modelines right now. I'll report my progress later.

A quick google search returned this: Using Xorg with BenQ FP202W

wantilles

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From: Athens - Greece

Registered: 2007-03-29

Posts: 327

Re: Nvidia 3D driver driving me crazy

Tested that driver earlier today but unfortunately is was painfully slow compared to the 171.06 beta driver (at least on my 8800gts 640mb), and not only in 3d. 2D/GTK performance dropped to around 50-60% of what the previous version was able to do (according to gtkperf). The performance drop is bad enough to notice even without benchmarks and gaming sessions...

The same happens here.

I had been using 171.06 flawlessly with Gnome 2.22 and Compiz-Fusion-git 0.7.5 (in amd64 architecture).

With 173.08 I can literally see every 3D desktop frame redrawn, and have CPU usage spikes at 70%-80%.

Hardware is nForce4-SLI, K8 Toledo @ 2.2GHz and 7600GT PCI-e.

I rolled-back to 171.06.

Unfortunately the 173.08 for me is completely unusuable.

Something changed drastically in this driver.

I hope it gets fixed soon.

Last edited by wantilles (2008-04-12 06:01:26)

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: Nvidia 3D driver driving me crazy

Here's the nvnews thread moaning about slowness in compiz.