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WyoPBS

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From: Cheyenne, WY

Registered: 2007-10-05

Posts: 101

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Blessed mother of acceleration, don't fail me now

OK, on the ATI vs. nvidia discussion, here's my final answer:  Nuts to ATI.

Using the generic (non-proprietary) drivers for the onboard ATI chip, I got maybe 10 frames per second on a good day in Second Life.  A bit of an improvement over my old computer's 2-3 fps, but not much.  I read about all the joys of downgrading the kernel and xorg modules to work with ATI's drivers and decided that sounds like too much work.  So I blew $60 on an nvidia 9500... and now fps has maxed out at over 120, sometimes as low as 30 if I'm in a crowded room and I have every possible rendering option enabled.

Sorry ATI.  You were a great brand when you were Canadian, but since AMD bought you, you missed the boat.

Now I need to find something better to do with my time than play Second Life...

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Peter B. Steiger
Cheyenne, WY

Gen2ly

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From: Sevierville, TN

Registered: 2009-03-06

Posts: 1,529

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Re: Blessed mother of acceleration, don't fail me now

Is that you in the picture, can we see a closeup?

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ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,355

Re: Blessed mother of acceleration, don't fail me now

Now I need to find something better to do with my time than play Second Life...

Houston, we found the problem! =p

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