[MPlayer-users] Re: [expert] NVidia will be bannished

[Nick Kurshev]

Hello, gabor!

On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 13:01:44 +0100 you wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Thursday 31 January 2002 08:33 am, you wrote:
[snip]
> > Somewhere above (probably) you wrote that you have unstable system with
> > Radeon 8500. It simply broken chip and it's bad luck for you :( But you
> > have possibility to replace this chip with the same other.
> > In case of NVidia you have no possibility to improve their buggy drivers
> > and software. It it would be easy then why we have opensource competited
> > drivers?
> 
> 
> btw. if i remember correctly ati cheated with their win32 driver.
> if the driver detected that quake3 is running, it simply refused to turn on 
> some high-level visual effects so it was able to produce better frame/sec 
> values than the competitors... you cold find the string "quake" in their 
> drivers :-)
Finely "Quake 3". But everyone has possibility to rename this place ;)
Maybe you are right - but I'm not sure about radeon2.
These drivers are all-in-one and this string can exist even for rage128
or for something other ;)
Anyway it would be better to look at R300 :)
> 
> bye,
> gabor
> 
> 
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Best regards! Nick