Everyone's driver writing hero has done it again. Rudolf has updated his
development page with news that version 0.06 of his NVidia driver is now
available.
With this new release comes... (drum roll.......) 2D acceleration!
Here's what Rudolf has to say:
"I've got some preliminary testresults on the driver's speed for you as well:
- Retrace sync apparantly works about 2mS faster than with the Be unified driver: VLC is capable of actually completing bitmap copies within the retrace time over here (with Dano). Note please that VLC only syncs to retrace if you enable that and set a refreshrate between 48-61Hz. This is because distortions are mainly visible on low refreshrates (especially using TVout ;-). Note please that it looks like BeOS R5 contains a WaitForRetrace() bug: it's working to slow at least!
- 2D acceleration is about 10-15% slower than with the Be driver. I'll try to optimize speed later on, that hasn't been done yet. My GeForce FX 5200 is about 50% faster than my GeForce4 Ti 4200 card by the way (BeRometer)."
Way to go Rudolf! You are truly a BeOS hero. ;)
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