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Originally posted by Shakey_Jake33 View PostI'm a bit worried about this now. I'm using a 7900 GTO right now, but will be switching to a laptop w/ 8400m from September for university. When people say the new drivers are really bad for 2D on GeForce 8 cards, are we talking general desktop usage, watching videos etc?
A few people have issues with them, most don't, watching video's shouldn't be a problem. (Heck watching 1080p even on a lowly Gforce 7200 can be done). Speaking from first hand experience based using a MacBook Pro which uses the 8600m, everything is running smooth as silk here on the latest drivers.
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Originally posted by Michael View PostFor those of you really upset (or very pleased) by the driver, we do accept freelance editorials on Phoronix
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Originally posted by tuxic View PostI'm getting the same text corruption with this driver. Any solution yet?
Btw: Running a GeForce 7800GS AGP card if it's relevant.
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Originally posted by ferreira View PostWell, all I can say is "lulz"... Now the people suddenly want to embrace ATI's efforts the help the development of radeon/radeonhd drivers by telling others to buy ATI stuff...
I'd risk a statement that people ALWAYS stick to what works... ideology is irrelevant here - I think I've never seen anyone cursing NVIDIA when their driver was working well, no matter if it was closed or whatever.
I am sure NVIDIA will fix the bugs - and then, will you still call for people to buy ATI or return to using what you have?
Anyway... 'twas just a random rant... feel free to flame me if you see it proper...
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Originally posted by tuxic View PostThat's weird. I'm running Gnome and experiencing font corruption throughout all applications. Menu's and even Firefox. 3D works nicely with this driver. I'll continue to look for a solution. Keep you posted.
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I'd like to 'me too' this. I'm currently on an 8800GT because it offered the best price/performance/usability, but I'm hoping to go HD 4870 once they are released. The nice thing about open drivers is the long-term nature. You can still fire up a box with a G400 or ancient 3Dfx card without too much work. Older Nvidia cards aren't very well supported, Nvidia is slow to release updates for them and they often miss out on a lot of the new features in newer drivers.
Anyways, come HD 4870 launch, maybe I'll take Michael up on his offer, and document some of my experiences from the POV of a long time Nvidia user (0.9-6 and up!).
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Ehm ... and that would be what happends when I forget to install the 32bit libs of the driver Well, now everything works great! Hopefully they'll fix the problem with the fonts in the next version, but for now antialias seem to work, though I must say, it doesn't look to pritty on small text.
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