Extremely urgent request for testing (new Nvidia binary drivers)

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto]

alastair wrote:
> I don't have Nvidia at home, but we use FX4000/4000sdi/4400 at work for
> heavy duty graphics playback (film work). I tested the latest driver
> version I had today and found :
> 
> 7162 (previous) -> OK
> 7167 -> playback performance bad (< 50% of 7162)
> 
> I downloaded the latest available from their "partners" web site :
> 
> 7174 -> OK (again)
> 
> The changelog for 7174 says (amongst other things) :
> 
> Fixed performance problem when using AGPGART.
> 
> So .... YMMV.
> 
> I admit that our workload is not usual though - 2048x1556 RGBA 10 bit
> DPX frames @ 24 fps.
> 
> 

This is fixed with the version of 7174 in the archive.

Fabio

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