Confused about nvidia drivers

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Originally Posted by Hlingler

Latest Compiz-Fusion packages from the C-F repo by our very own CM Leigh123 (see the thread in the "Guides and How-Tos" forum for where and how to get the goods).
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I have seen many post by Leigh and they have been very useful though. I have to say when it comes to compiz how-to's his guides is worth to read.

Originally Posted by Hlingler

Performance: OUTSTANDING! When my son saw C-F, he had to have it, so he wiped Win* and installed F8, the nvidia driver, and those packages, with little help from me, and is enjoying. Only one little caveat: I had to set C-F to "loose binding" to prevent the infamous nvidia VRAM overflow. No problems since. Be aware that there are minimum requirements to run C-F or any 3D compositing Window Manager(s), but any new nvidia chipset/card using the proprietary driver will certainly be up to the job. C-F recommends 64 MB VRAM minimum, you must have 3D/DRI (Direct Rendering, provided by the nvidia driver), and you must run at 24 bpp color depth.
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I am sure anyone who sees CF on action will be impressed, I know because I am one of them. As for the specs you said I think most up2date laptops like Dell and HP does offer more than 64VRAM. I would say 128 VRAM is the minimum on most of their machine so that basically wouldn't bother me. Other than overflow issue you said everything else is fine. It seems I been worrying too much about the performance issue.

Thanks. I'll be visiting the store next week to buy myself new laptop with Nvidia card. Hope it will perform better than my current intel 945GM card.