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JonEberger
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So I came by an older laptop and of course shortly it was running MDK 10.1. It's a great laptop for what I do. It's a P3-600 with (unfortunately) only 128 MB RAM. The HD is more than big enough for me to run whatever I want on this computer. It runs great with a lighter desktop and I'm trying to squeak all of the performance out of it that I can without spending any money on it.

 

When looking in the hardware configuration, harddrake says that the video card is a '3D Rage LT Pro AGP-133'. However MDK has loaded the ATI Mach64 Utah module. The graphics run great and I've tried other modules to load in it's stead. I don't really SEE a performance decrease. GLX gears runs about the same under both modules. Is there a performance increase to the Utah module over the Rage Pro driver? Are the proprietary drivers from ATI as worthwhile to obtain as the NVidia ones are?

 

Thanks,

 

Jon

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The drivers from ati.com are for Radeons 8500 and up if I'm correct.

So I guess you already have best performance with the driver you're using now.

As to why it works with two different drivers, I don't know really.... But what the heck, as long as it works! :D

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