NVIDIA Drivers 1.0-4496
Version 1.0-4496 of the NVIDIA display drivers havebeen released for x86/IA32. The release highlights are listed as:
- GeForce FX 5900 support
- support for Active Stereo + TwinView
- initial support for APM power management
- improved OpenGL performance when rendering to multiple buffers
- bug fixes since 1.0-4363
Additional information can be found in the
July 31st, 2003 at 10:10 am
“support for Active Stereo + TwinView”
Does this mean I can finally buy those $80 glasses that alternate which eye you look out of in sync with your monitor so 3D games look 3D and you get bad headaches after 1 hour use?
I was hoping to see “supporting OGL1.5″ but i know it could not be yet. :-)
July 31st, 2003 at 11:28 am
They are released the day before yesterday on that german site (even though the were compiled in the mid of July).
Of notible improvements is much better performance in Savage, TV-out and Active Stereo.
Unreal 2003 has had a _major_ performance hit, but everything is drawn correct.
With older drivers textures would look ugly. So hopefully is it just a fix to make things look correct, and performanceimprovements will come later.
July 31st, 2003 at 11:34 am
I continue to wish i hadn’t bought a damn radeon 9500
July 31st, 2003 at 12:30 pm
do tv-out work in linux? and if then how?
July 31st, 2003 at 2:49 pm
These drivers are looking very stable and the picture has impoved a bit in Enemy Territory. I like them very much.
July 31st, 2003 at 3:11 pm
I’m still on 3123. Everything after that either kills video output after exiting XFree86, or locks it up hard after exiting. =(
July 31st, 2003 at 7:14 pm
> Huh! I thought hurling was just one of the new special FX.
It is. It’s part of TwinView, and let’s you adjust the monitor refresh rate and shutter frequencies independantly to produce varying levels of headache-inducing shear. Unfortunately the value is clamped between GL_PUKE_EVENTUALLY and GL_PUKE_SOON. So far, the only game to use this feature is an upcoming ultra-realistic shooter based on the invasion of Normandy.
P.S. “Reply with History” isn’t it.
August 1st, 2003 at 8:46 am
Finally! — eh. laptop here –