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Re: LDView error
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Sun, 4 Mar 2007 15:24:22 GMT
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"Travis Cobbs" <tcobbs@REMOVE.halibut.com> schreef in bericht
news:JECt3F.ED0@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Jaco van der Molen wrote:
> > My problem was solved by downloading a dll file nvoglnt.dll. It turned
> > out
> > my version was 0 kb !?
> > The strange thing however is that LDView renders slower than my GF2
> > card???
> 
> I don't know off-hand the performance characteristics of those two cards,
> but if
> your GF2 wasn't an MX, then it's actually possible that the new card is
> actually

Which is indeed true. The GF2 was not MX.

> slower at geometry processing (despite being two full generations newer).
> In
> LDView, the geometry processing ability of the video card is the most
> important
> thing.  The MX cards from nVidia were always the less expensive
> consumer-oriented cards (vs the hard-core gamer cards), and so the GF 4
> MX440
> may have less geometry ability than a standard GF2.

This is dissappointing... I assumed a GF4 would be better on all fronts than
an GF2.

> In any event, I'd suggest downloading the latest full driver package from
> nVidia
> and seeing how things go with that installed.  They've generally been good
> about
> having their latest drivers support cards all the way back to Riva TNT.

Thanks Travis!



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(...) I don't know off-hand the performance characteristics of those two cards, but if your GF2 wasn't an MX, then it's actually possible that the new card is actually slower at geometry processing (despite being two full generations newer). In (...) (20 years ago, 4-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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