Yep, been there, done that.


On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Andrew S. Zbikowski <andyzib at gmail.com>wrote:

> Before you try a new card, have you tried installing nvidia's Linux
> drivers? (http://www.nvidia.com/Download or possibly in your
> distribution's software repository.) It could be your not taking full
> advantage of your GPU due to driver/configuration issue, and if that's the
> case a new video card wouldn't fix it.
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Erik Mitchell <erik.mitchell at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I really can't make sense of the whole video card debate. On the one
>> hand, Linus has blasted Nvidia, but for a long time I thought they
>> were preferred among Linux users.
>
>
> Nvidia hasn't released the technical information needed to create open
> source drivers, instead releasing their own binary only drivers with
> varying degrees of stability. Even so, nvidia was still the best option for
> 3D acceleration under Linux for a long time.
>
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