NVIDIA 180.08 Beta Driver Adds In OpenGL 3.0

[Thetargos]

Ook... OpenGL 3.0, you say? Not according to glxinfo

glxinfo | grep OpenGL
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 9800 GT/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL version string: [color=cyan]2.1.2[/color] [color=lime]NVIDIA 180.08[/color]
OpenGL extensions:

[Dragoran]

Ook... OpenGL 3.0, you say? Not according to glxinfo

glxinfo | grep OpenGL
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 9800 GT/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL version string: [color=cyan]2.1.2[/color] [color=lime]NVIDIA 180.08[/color]
OpenGL extensions:

glxinfo does not use GLX_create_context to create its opengl context and therefore will runin opengl 2 mode.

glxinfo | grep GLX_create_context

is the command you want to run

[Vadi]

vadi@ubuntu:~$ glxinfo | grep OpenGL
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 8600M GT/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 180.08
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20 NVIDIA via Cg compiler
OpenGL extensions:
vadi@ubuntu:~$ glxinfo | grep GLX_create_context
vadi@ubuntu:~$

Hm...

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[Kano]

glxinfo | grep create_context

[Janusz11]

That's it! I've just ordered a BFG GTX 260 OC Maxcore, which will replace my ATi HD4870.

Maybe ATi will in two or three years be there where nVidia is right now.

[Kano]

You can send me your old card for testing

[Vadi]

glxinfo | grep create_context

thanks that works

[deanjo]

There should be a new driver coming out soon that addresses the 180 series according to plagman at nvnews that addresses the leak.

There was indeed a bug with the GlyphCache where it would leak all of its cache entries from times to times, leading to high CPU usage of text rendering operations after a few hours of regular desktop usage.
This is now fixed and the fix will be included in the next 180 beta driver.

[d2kx]

180.11 is released...

[Thetargos]

Is it final or still Beta?