A Use for NVidia

The world has seen a significant amount of complaining about NVidia cards (the 8600 has had it’s fair share of whippings).

However, I’ve come to a great realisation:

with my exceptionally slow nvidia card I can see absolutely every draw that occurs on the screen. Great for debugging paint events, and no need to export QT_FLUSH_PAINT=1.

All you devs should go out and get one :)

7 Comments

  1. Fri13
    Posted July 21, 2008 at 8:41 pm | Permalink

    Actually you should go and buy a AMD’s 3D card so you get change to test open source drivers then. And you support AMD to stay on market so the Intel and nVidia ain’t going to rule the market what leads that prices goes up and quality/development goes down.

    Currently AMD has fastest card again… and drivers seems to be in better shape now for over a year.
    I have desktop PC a 8600GT OC and laptop a AMD x1700 and AMD is much better with Compiz or Kwin :-)

  2. Ian Monroe
    Posted July 22, 2008 at 12:35 am | Permalink

    Fri13 is a few eggs short of a dozen, me thinks ;)

  3. GreenPeace
    Posted July 22, 2008 at 5:40 pm | Permalink

    Actualy, I don’t think it the reason is in nVidia cards or, either, nVidia drivers.
    I was using gentoo for 3 years and was using kde4 with it until may/2008. And I have no artifacts or slow drawings with closed source dirvers. After that I jumped to kubuntu 8.04. And now (and problem seems to appear only in kde4) every popup menu etc. redraws slow with ugly black background while animation.

    So it is either distribution specific problem or kde4 on ubuntu specific problem. Stop rushing on nVidia ;)

  4. Posted July 22, 2008 at 10:32 pm | Permalink

    It is a nVidia issue though. I’m guessing your configuration just changed enough between Gentoo and Kubuntu that it revealed the problem.

  5. GreenPeace
    Posted July 23, 2008 at 3:01 am | Permalink

    My hardware was not changed. As far as I get it is new Qt problem. They just don’t want to tweak Qt for nvidia. Instead of that they want nvidia to tweak for Qt. It is funny.. well, no, it is not.

    Btw I respect Trolls and KDE and Nvidia. But here just common issue, programmers always face up different problems and then they can choose the other way or ignore it. KDE and Qt ignore the problem.

  6. NuclearPeon
    Posted July 25, 2008 at 2:18 am | Permalink

    That’s funny. I have an nVidia 8600GT card with Kubuntu 8.04 and KDE 4 yet I don’t experience those problems.

    I did use Envy to install my video drivers, perhaps that’s what is missing.

    It’s refreshing to see some people with a sense of humour though. :)

  7. Posted August 31, 2008 at 2:20 pm | Permalink

    I have a nice fanless 8600GTS and it rocks for Linux because you don’t have to worry about having a driver to stop the fan running 100% :D

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