NVIDIA with games experience....

[Bikehead]

I'm talking about the one from nvidia.com ("nvidia").  I'm sure its 
being used by X since I get the splash screen.

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 _-\<,_   Brian
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Jim Martin wrote:

> Are you talking about the default nvidia driver? or the one from 
> nvidia.com?
>
> I use the nvidia driver from nvidia.com and all my games work great, 
> both native and wine based. I have no problems at all.
>
> I believe the nvidia (nv) driver that comes with linux is not the best 
> driver available, it does not ( that I know of) support enhanced 
> graphics, or openGL. of course, i could be wrong.
>
> BaVinic
>
> Bikehead wrote:
>
>> I was wondering if anyone had any experience with using the NVIDIA 
>> driver undet FC3 using a game.  I can use the NVIDIA driver under FC3 
>> sync'ed up to the latest rawhide for the normal desktop.  However, 
>> when I use neverwinter nights, FPS performance is very bad: about a 
>> frame a second.  I guess I should be fairly happy it runs at all!
>>
>> I do have to run the game as root to overcome some permission 
>> problems with the NVIDIA devices.  Other than that the game doesn't 
>> complain about anything, but display performance is slow.
>>
>> Any comments or suggestions are welcome.
>>
>