Nvidia will fix 8800 by mid-September

Regeneration · Posted by Regeneration on August 1st, 2007, 05:23 PM

We managed to get an update from an Nvidia rep regarding the actual timeframe of the driver release that will fix the 8800 slowdown issue. As it stands right now, fix for this highly annoying bug is planned for a release between the end of August and middle of September. My personal assumption would be that the latter date is a more realistic one. Nvidia stated that this problem is "of complex nature," and it seems to us that fixing one card leads to issues with another.

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**Posted by Unixlord on August 1st, 2007, 10:31 PM**

the problem also effects Geforce 6 and 7 cards though, so its not a problem with memory management, its the Dx Texture eviction thats the problem.

Opengl games don't have this issue because Opengl handles textures itself when the glGenTextures extension is used