[ale] Nvidia Magic for dual head

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Fri Feb 7 11:08:18 EST 2003


On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 10:14, Dow Hurst wrote:
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> The performance on the card with Gears is about ~5800fps which isn't 

your griping about 5800 fps?!?!?! That is just not a possible frame rate
unless it's a very small screen with 2 colors. Did you drop a decimal
point somewhere? 58.00 maybe?

> great compared to the top of the line cards.  But, I am not a top of the 
> line gamer nor have that kind of money.  I do like having the 
> capabilities that the Nvidia driver provides.  It is more functional 
> under Linux than Windows.  You can have different refresh rates and 
> resolutions at the same time on your OpenGL hardware accelerated single 
> desktop.  It is what Xinerama should be.  I have yet to play Quake or 
> anything after that so I'll be easy to please compared to kids today.  
> In fact, I've noticed a resurrection of Wolfenstein 3D which was my 
> alltime favorite in my gaming years.  I want to try out the new Flight 
> program that came available this fall.
> Dow
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