On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 12:53:04AM -0600, Dr. Aldo Medina wrote: > > > > The funny thing is that "hardware" acceleration is about 2-3 times > > slower than "software". Thanks any way, as I seem to remember something > > in my previous machine (PII350, RH 6.2) about recommending using 16-bit > > mode, as this is the accelerated bpp. I will try it and post the > > results. Thank you very much. > > Well, that was it. I remembered I read somewhere that NVIDIA's drivers > only supported 16-bpp. I remember how my PII350 slowed almost to freeze > in 24 or 8 bpp, so maybe what I'm watching is my PIII800 being able to > maintain a very slow motion netherless. I tried 16-bpp instead 24-bpp, > and IT WORKED!!!: Now I enjoy blazing speed even at 1600x1200. Thanks to > all that tried to help me. As I side note I rechecked NVIDIA's doc and I > didn't found any reference to this, even as I remember having read it > back to 0.9-1 or 3.
I don't remember where, but I recall seeing somewhere a recommendation that 24 bpp not be used with the NVIDIA cards. Bob
