Re: [info-performer] pfGeoArray stability problem on nVIDIA Quadro

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From: Hugues De Keyzer (hugues++at++depinxi.be)
Date: 10/14/2005 08:29:23

On Friday 14 October 2005 16:03, Jason Daly wrote:
> Hugues De Keyzer wrote:
>
> >Hi all,
> >
> >we have serious stability problems when using pfGeoArrays on nVIDIA Quadro cards on GNU/Linux.
> >
> >With a Quadro FX 4400, application crashes randomly in the nVIDIA driver. With a Quadro FX 4500, the PC freezes several seconds after starting the application and need to be rebooted (hard shutdown by keeping power button pushed for 4 s). These problems seem to appear only when heavily loading video memory (lots of textures & polygons), possibly overloading it.
> >
> >Tested on Linux 2.6, Pentium 4 3.6 GHz and Xeon 2.8 GHz, nVIDIA driver 7676, Performer 3.2.0 & 3.2.1.
> >
> >Does anyone has had similar problems or has any clue about a solution?
> >
> >
>
> Just curious, are you using Dell 670's with PCI-Express cards? We've
> seen similar behavior with GeForce 6600GT cards (not only using
> Performer), and we've been in contact with nVidia about it. If it is
> the same problem, we've been assured by nVidia that it will be fixed in
> the next driver release.
>
> You can search through the nvnews forums here:
>
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14
>
> --"J"

The cards are indeed PCI-Express, but the workstations are hp xw4200 and xw6200. Any clue about a the release date of the next driver?

Thanks for the reply.

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