new nvidia driver = awesome

jerboyd · #1 16th June 2009, 04:42 PM

has anyone else noticed a performance boost with the newest nvidia driver? i no longer have to use loose binding and indirect rendering in compiz to get nice smooth 2d graphics.

very happy

cksmuck · #2 16th June 2009, 04:53 PM

I have to Nvidia 9600 in mine and yes I did notice that loose binding and indirect rendering are not needed to spin the cube fast, but I have downloaded the Fedora game critter and when I open it up it says I do not have a card with the 3d renderering capabilities needed to run the game. Somewhere something was missed in the driver for Nvidia from F10 because the game worker in F10 with the 180.29 version of the driver.

Did you have a problem obtaining the driver, Jerboyd? I had to run a --nogpgcheck on my yum update for it to install and I still cannot get the rpmfusion-free and non-free keys to work. I even MANUALLY installed them after the yum install of the keys did not work.

jerboyd · #3 16th June 2009, 04:59 PM

i use akmod-nvidia to build the nvidia kernel module. i use the rpmfusion.org repository for that and it updates and builds the kmod automatically. after the update i played urbanterror which requires a 3d card and i had no problems.

how did you set up the rpm fusion repository? i used their instructions and just accepted the signature. since then it doesn't prompt me about the keys.

cksmuck · #4 16th June 2009, 05:06 PM

I used autoten's script