From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 19 0:40:44 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB30937B401 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 00:40:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 662D443F75 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 00:40:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DougB@freebsd.org) Received: from master.gorean.org (12-234-22-23.client.attbi.com[12.234.22.23]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52) with SMTP id <20030319084041052007dkqre>; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 08:40:42 +0000 Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 00:40:41 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton To: Gregory Bond Cc: Eric Anholt , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP: XFree86 4.3.0 update In-Reply-To: <200303180051.LAA03851@lightning.itga.com.au> Message-ID: <20030319003933.J88684@znfgre.tberna.bet> References: <200303180051.LAA03851@lightning.itga.com.au> Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-message-flag: Outlook -- Not just for spreading viruses anymore! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Gregory Bond wrote: > I was astounded last night... I put X4.3 and the nvidia drivers up on my box > at home (Athlon XP 1600+, GeForce2 Ti). > > glxgears ~ 2600 fps. > > Quake3 in 1024x800 full detail "four" demo ~ 150fps. > > The big trick to getting all this to work (that I've not seen anywhere else): > > Make sure your X session is running with depth >= 16!!!! I read an article from what should be a reliable source that said all modern SVGA cards perform best at their maximum color depth, since that's how they're optimized. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message