New NVidia drivers are out.

[pbharris]

Good! Now RedHat 8.0 and Mandrake 9.0 have compiled drivers.

[t048]

They sure do take their sweet time getting them out.

[Kernel_Killer]

I would say these are some really good drivers!!! I almost got a 10FPS increase in UT2003 @ 1024x768 with full settings.

[airhead]

Yup, I''ve heard that they contain OpenGL 1.4 support and they have taken some licensed code out in favour of their own. But I've heard a couple of bad reports with these drivers so I hope they fix them in the next version.

These drivers are still a bit betaish, because of some mahor code rework... but they smoking fast.

[stryder144]

I have a Via based motherboard (I'm at work right now, so I can't say for sure which chipset is being used) and past drivers seemed, well, flaky. Has this been fixed or should I continue to use the built in graphics chip?

[quote author=stryder144 link=board=6;threadid=5850;start=0#55925 date=1039953913]
I have a Via based motherboard (I'm at work right now, so I can't say for sure which chipset is being used) and past drivers seemed, well, flaky. Has this been fixed or should I continue to use the built in graphics chip?
[/quote]

There are workarounds for VIA instability.

[stryder144]

[quote author=Lovechild link=board=6;threadid=5850;start=0#55928 date=1039960059]
[quote author=stryder144 link=board=6;threadid=5850;start=0#55925 date=1039953913]
I have a Via based motherboard (I'm at work right now, so I can't say for sure which chipset is being used) and past drivers seemed, well, flaky. Has this been fixed or should I continue to use the built in graphics chip?
[/quote]

There are workarounds for VIA instability.
[/quote]

Do you have references to the work arounds? I noticed some odd stability issues running win95 (I'm only using it because I need windows for work stuff and I didn't want to run a pirate version of win98). I have only used the nvidia drivers for windows since the generic nv driver in xfree86 worked fine for me.

Newer VIA4in1 drivers fix a whole range of problems for Windows, for Linux you're most likely to hit the AMD bug which seems to be easiest to hit with VIA + GeForce combos.

[stryder144]

[quote author=Lovechild link=board=6;threadid=5850;start=0#55936 date=1039964010]
Newer VIA4in1 drivers fix a whole range of problems for Windows, for Linux you're most likely to hit the AMD bug which seems to be easiest to hit with VIA + GeForce combos.
[/quote]

I did install the latest Hyperion driver set, so maybe I'll reinstall my Nvidia card and hope for the best.

Thanks,
Cheers