New Nvidia drivers r out!!

Braveheart1980 · 11-09-2004, 03:17 AM

New nvidia drivers r out ! Check them @

http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/L...-6629-pkg1.run

And don't forget "Happy gaming is nvidia gaming"!!

ror · 11-09-2004, 03:24 AM

I've heard of people having problems, as with any updates, I'll wait a week or two then try em.

edit: I don't understand the last option?

Braveheart1980 · 11-09-2004, 03:31 AM

The last option refers to the nvidia*.rpm drivers that different sites have. The advantage is easy installation and the need NOT to compile the drivers each new kernel.Disadvantages r that they r reported not to b so stable especially @ 3d applications and games

dezza · 11-09-2004, 04:16 AM

Some of my friends have noticed up to 5% difference! This is said to be a very nice driver improvement with lots of performance upgrades and bugfixes ..

reddazz · 11-09-2004, 04:23 AM

Thanks, gonna download them now.

Braveheart1980 · 11-09-2004, 05:23 AM

Thanks for the info dezza!

thermite_1033 · 11-09-2004, 05:57 AM

not much of an improvement

I did the test
with a gf fx5800
the 2 first runs I didn't include.

Quote:

driver 6111

28186 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5637.200 FPS
28190 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5638.000 FPS
28171 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5634.200 FPS
28216 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5643.200 FPS
28198 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5639.600 FPS
28195 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5639.000 FPS
avarage= 5638.533 FPS

driver 6629

28623 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5724.600 FPS
28661 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5732.200 FPS
28623 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5724.600 FPS
28637 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5727.400 FPS
28641 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5728.200 FPS
28629 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5725.800 FPS
avarage = 5727.133 FPS

improvement

88.6 frames
1.57%

only 1.57% beter, I expected more

hw-tph · 11-09-2004, 06:06 AM

You may want to know this version of the driver does not handle widescreen displays (i.e. laptops) correctly.

Håkan

madluther · 11-09-2004, 06:29 AM

On a FX5900 I got a 10% increase running glxgears, no __VMALLOC_RESERVE symbol hackery needed to run it on a 2.6.9 kernel, and best of all Doom 3 is now as fast on linux as it is on windows, timedemo improved from 30fps to 42 fps. As always, YMMV.

Mad.

reddazz · 11-09-2004, 06:41 AM

I'm struggling to get them to work on Fedora Core 3. I keep getting the "no screens found" error and "could not load module nvidia".