Re: [Hampshire] What Graphics Card?

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Author: mark
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] What Graphics Card?
On 2013-02-09 13:38, Jack Knight wrote:
> On 9 February 2013 13:13, Michael Daffin <james1479@???> wrote:
>
>> If you are using the open drivers then neither ati or nvidia have
>> problems
>> with dual screen. But then game performance might suffer.
>>
>> The property nvidia drivers work well with dual screen here, no
>> configuration is needed any more except switching the displays around
>> and
>> nvidia now supports the randr protocol so you can do this from the
>> normal
>> desktop utilities for your de rather than the nvidia utilities.
>>
>> It might also be worth noting that nvidia driver are improving quite
>> allot
>> of late partly thanks to valve working with nvidia to improve them.
>>
>
> Ahh, that explains a lot - last time I looked (admittedly way back
> last
> year) the lack of randr support was a clincher for me.


Great, sounds like either are a pretty safe bet then, in which case
it'll probably be down to what gives me the best bang for my buck when
pay day arrives! Thanks for your input everyone.

Mark

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