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Mesa 8.1 Will Offer Some Speed Improvements For Nouveau

The Prey game performance was unchanged on the newer Nouveau Gallium3D user-space driver.

For Smokin' Guns and Urban Terror, two ioquake3-based games, there were some small performance improvements for select NVIDIA GPUs.

The VDrift racing game seemed to edge higher on Mesa 8.1-devel for this reverse-engineered NVIDIA Linux graphics driver.