[H-GEN] Setting NVIDIA driver settings permamently

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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Findlay" <david at davsoft.com.au>
To: "Humbug Mailing List" <general at lists.humbug.org.au>
Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2003 12:19 PM
Subject: [H-GEN] Setting NVIDIA driver settings permamently

> Anyone know of a way to permamently set my NVIDIA drivers to use 4xAA and
> ansiotropic filtering?

Sorry I can't help you with this one, But -

> BTW, have the Radeon drivers for Linux improved now to be as good as the
> NVIDIA ones? Thanks,

I can help you with this one, The ATI drivers come in RPM format. I tried
under debian for a long time, got them to convert successfully to .deb and
install as normal(with the exception of the DRI module) since theres no
precompiled DRI you have to compile yourself, which went according to plan,
but the module I ended up with would not detect my card(could be something I
did, not sure), so I played with it for a long time, cried, then formatted
and installed Redhat.

Under Redhat (8.1) the installation was painless, and the drivers(and DRI
module) worked out of the box, Neverwinternights averaged around 10-15fps
faster than it does with the latest Windose drivers under Win 2k.

Under RedHat (9) it becomes tricky, ATI(last I checked) dont have an
official driver for XFree 4.3, After much searching I sourced one off a
companies website that I cannot find anymore(unfortunatly) but I do have a
copy of the drivers if needed, this driver took awhile to setup, and with my
card (9k pro) it has a little bit of mouse related corruption in X when
scrolling through a document, but in game performance is comparible to the
XFree 4.2 official drivers.

The DRI driver provided with XFree 4.3 on my system displayed shocking
performance(slideshow in Quake 3 and Neverwinter) and extreme corruption
while running in OpenGL mode.

I hope my dribble helps you at least a little when choosing ATI or NVIDIA,
ATI make the best cards AFAIK, and their cards(in my experience) perform
better under linux than they do under windows, driver installation is a
little more tedious than NVIDIA, but if you prepared to spend the time I
believe you will be happy with the results.

> David

    Joe.



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