Hmm the 9600 gso 512mb support must be in name only. I've had one in my secondary desktop for about a month now and it's been working fine with an older driver.
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Originally posted by snogglethorpe View PostFrankly, it doesn't matter how often nvidia releases a new driver -- their stuff is closed, and thus inherently limited by the amount of manpower they can personally throw at it, and their marketing department, and ...
Even if Nvidia is suffering from manpower issues as you would have the world believe, they still are releasing a higher quality product.
And if ATI's closed drivers are so manpower starved (because they're closed) and all the real progress is by the open community then there's no point in supporting their market share since it won't impact the quality of drivers available.
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Originally posted by phoronix View PostThe NVIDIA 185.19 Beta is still the latest in the 185.xx series, but NVIDIA has provided a pre-release of the 180.51 driver.
Originally posted by JimmyOpen sourcing doesn't guarantee manpower. It presents opportunities for additional manpower but it doesn't mean it will happen.
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Originally posted by yogi_berra View PostThat is one way to spin it, another way is that it just means that anyone can fix the problems when developers screw up.
And while NVidia's drivers are closed-source, they have a very open development model and communication and feedback with/from the developers are great. Some parts of the driver, like nvidia-settings and VDPAU are even open source.
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Originally posted by greg View PostThat's not true -- especially for non-trivial stuff like GPU programming. There are very few developers intimate with that. Of course, you always have the possibility that someone will pick it up, but often enough that doesn't mean anything.
And while NVidia's drivers are closed-source, they have a very open development model and communication and feedback with/from the developers are great. Some parts of the driver, like nvidia-settings and VDPAU are even open source.
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Originally posted by yogi_berra View PostSince when has familiarity with codebases stopped anyone in the community from "fixing" anything?
What does that have to do with the price of tea in Russia? If you'd bothered responding to what was said and not what you think was said you'd realize that I was not talking about nvidia's drivers or any problems with them, and you'd look less pedantic.
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Originally posted by greg View PostJust look at how many non-paid contributors are working on the radeon or intel drivers. There are lots of problems with these drivers, the manpower to fix these simply isn't there, and almost nobody is stepping up to do it.
Originally posted by greg View PostMy point is that NVidia isn't "evil" like many make them out to be.
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Originally posted by deanjo View PostThat's not evidence, that's speculation and still does not justify calling them "evil".
Seriously, don't use wikipedia for "evidence".
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