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NVIDIA Releases New Linux Drivers
mlmitton writes "NVIDIA just released new Linux drivers (1.0-5328). But the early reports by users are less than encouraging. People are weighing in with mostly bad news about how well these new drivers work. Some people are finding that Neverwinter Nights doesn't work and they're reverting to the old drivers (4496). I spent a few long hours recently trying to get the old drivers to work with Fedora Core 1 so I'm going to hold off on these new ones."
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LONG LIVE Alpha SRM, LONG LIVE OBP. Death to BIOS and fag shit like PXE and other PeeCee faggor crap.
YOU FUCK WALLOW LIKE PIGS IN THE PIG STY OF CHEAP SHIT HARDWARE FROM CHINA AND OTHER SHITHOLES, FUCK YOU FOR SUPPORT SHIT YOU SHITMONGERING FUCKERS.
OpenBoot is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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I just downloaded the latest WHQL drivers for my Nvidia card running under WinXP, and after 4 clicks and a reboot I was up and running with solid performance and badass framerates on NWN. No issues whatsoever. If Linux wants to have any success on the desktop whatsoever the people advocating its' use need to offer the hardware vendors something more substantial than "Linux is better than Windows" or "windows sucks". The vendors are out to make money like everyone else, and they will back viable systems with driver support. It's called professionalism, people, and this is the area where the fanatic, die-hard Linux zealots will hurt the adoption of Linux the most. I can recall hearing tales of HP support techs being told they were going to die because HP hadn't written Linux drivers for their printers. When the suits hear this sort of thing, I'm sure it doesn't make them want to rush out and spend all sorts of money developing drivers for unappreciative people demanding they give something away for free.
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As I see it the main problem with these drivers is that they are for Linux, and Linux is SUPER GAY.
Do you work for Microsoft?
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...that nvidia does anything for linux at all. Seriously, there is no real game market for linux, and these cards are designed for gamers. You don't see people running out to buy the latest and greatest badass video card to run their office applications.
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I'm really suprised that they spend any amount of time trying to cater to people who in most cases could just use some grossly outdated 8mb card to do what they'd normally do. Linux is not a gaming OS, it never has been, it may never be.
This is a real chicken and the egg thing; in order for game makers (and subsequently, video card manufacturers who are geared towards gamers) to take linux seriously, it needs the home userbase. However, before linux has a home userbase worth noting, it needs to be usable to the average home user. Since the vast majority of home users want games, they won't use linux, and you're all the way back to the beginning. And please, don't say "but you can use winex!" this process is hit and miss, and is often more aggrevation than it's worth. Only die hard geeks would have the tolerance for that.
Only with linux is it some kind of major event when a worthwhile game gets released for it. If you love games, but love linux too, you should dual boot linux/windows, it's the only sane solution to the problem. Anything else is going to waste your time that you could be using to kill another bad guy in your favorite game
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Plus i'm running it on top of Darwin, Version 7.2.0.
I'm running what seems to be the benchmark game, NWN for hours at a time, i even got Halo installed and playing it with max resolutions, my 10/100/1000 network card is working with no hiccups either, no conflicts.
This is all running under Aqua as well. Sometimes i wonder what you linux guys are getting all this grief for.
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