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Subject: Re: Problem with NVIDIA kernel driver with recent kernel
From: James Pole <james.pole@paradise.net.nz>
To: Peter Hoskin <peterh@criten.org>
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On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 14:56, Peter Hoskin wrote:
> Who needs a benchmark? Play an mpeg file. If its an older CPU (below
> 600mhz) you usually end up missing quite a few frames if you use the
> nv driver. Also, it doesn't look quite right. Although, with the NVIDIA
> driver things seem to be better.

It "doesn't look quite right"?! Even if software rendering is slow, it
should still give good picture. You should get at least simalar pictures
with software rendering compaered to hardware rendering. Well, software
rendering of my MPEG movies looks alright on my TNT2..

- James

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