I'm using the driver, and it seems like that the new driver improved
performance in many ways, including KDE4 and firefox. But I found that
3D performance is not as good as before.
When I was trying different InitialPixmapPlacement values, I found
that setting it to "2" or "1" results in different
Nvidia has a relatively new beta binary driver available for FreeBSD
as described at:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=118603
I noticed last night that there is also a performance tuning guide for
this driver version on Linux at:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=118