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Article #229Re: Goodbye Nvidia
From: Pierre Legrand
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 00:00
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 00:00
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Sorry but the Creative site does not describe the 5.22 drivers as beta. PAPA DOC > >Well I have yet to find a game that doesn't work with the 5.22 on my system, >every game I own works just great. Plus you have to take in mind that >driver sets like 5.16 and 5.22 are continuous beta drivers and you do not >have to install these, they are drivers that are constantly worked on. When >nvidia feels they have a stable version with a few improvements, they >release official drivers, like now the detonator2 drivers. >I've never had problems with any detonator drivers, so for my opinion their >drivers are great! > >Matthias > >ShadowGod <jpiddockNOjpSPAM@cyberzone.net.invalid> schreef in berichtnieuws >0eeb1958.732edbe9@usw-ex0105-037.remarq.com... >> "Adam" <nospam@com.com> wrote: >> >> Amen brother! Nvidia's drivers are absolutely *horrible*! >> >> >> >> -John >> > >> >Bullshit. Nvidias drivers are actually some of the best. >> First off look at >> >nvidias engineers and their backgrounds. Its now all of SGI's >> opengl >> >engineers. It need not be said, but for those that dont >> know... SGI has >> >lead the 3d accelerated workstation market for many many >> years. Of course >> >that has all changed quite recently thanks to the PC and its >> wide variety of >> >3d accelerators. Nvidias drivers stand up fine, they perform >> excellent in >> >games, and they are now moving to support opengl workstation >> applications. >> >You cant say the same for 3DFX. They will always be a game >> card, atleast >> >thats what their current buisness model looks like. Nvidia is >> a revolution >> >in that it is brings together the 200$ game card and the 2000$ >> workstation >> >cards. >> > >> >That trend will continue, and nvidia will continue to lead the >> industry >> >based on its engineering background. >> > >> >-Adam >> > >> >> Blah blah blah. What the hell are you talking about? None of >> that crap means anything IF THE DAMN DRIVERS DON'T WORK WITH ALL >> GAMES! You're missing the point. >> >> -John >> >> >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Got questions? Get answers over the phone at Keen.com. >> Up to 100 minutes free! >> http://www.keen.com >> > >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1117b2,7e06d3613a630f63 X-Google-Attributes: gid1117b2,public X-Google-Thread: 114911,7e06d3613a630f63 X-Google-Attributes: gid114911,public X-Google-Thread: feaeb,7e06d3613a630f63 X-Google-Attributes: gidfeaeb,public From: plegrand@home.com (Pierre Legrand) Subject: Re: Goodbye Nvidia Date: 2000/07/01 Message-ID: <395d7bc5.20554962@news> X-Deja-AN: 641106222 References: <8jgoji$gbt$1@nntp9.atl.mindspring.net> <04063bc3.2176a01a@usw-ex0104-025.remarq.com> <Tl675.10981$0q6.42431@news02> <0eeb1958.732edbe9@usw-ex0105-037.remarq.com> <12775.29955$NF5.599833@afrodite.telenet-ops.be> X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.tx.home.com 962427887 24.11.189.210 (Fri, 30 Jun 2000 22:04:47 PDT) Organization: @Home Network NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 22:04:47 PDT Newsgroups: alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia,3dfx.products.voodoo5,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim