Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 00:40:41 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> To: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au> Cc: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADSUP: XFree86 4.3.0 update Message-ID: <20030319003933.J88684@znfgre.tberna.bet> In-Reply-To: <200303180051.LAA03851@lightning.itga.com.au> References: <200303180051.LAA03851@lightning.itga.com.au>
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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
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