Re: Is the nvidia proprietary driver much faster (for me) than nv driver?

[Chris G <cl isbd net>]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 10:46:53AM -0800, Duane Clark wrote:
> Chris G wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 11:11:32AM -0300, Heitor Moraes wrote:
>>> Without the proprietary driver, your computer will have a poor
>>> software based 3D.
>>>
>> But what applications *use* 3D?  Do I actually run anything that will
>> take advantage of 3D?
>
> If you don't use games, the main application that I know of that might 
> interest you would be google earth. If you have not tried it before, it is 
> very cool. You need the nvidia driver to get good performance on it.
>
I have occasionally looked at Google earth, so that's one possible
reason for installing the nvidia drivers.  Thanks.

-- 
Chris Green