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  Re: 3D Canvas modeller *free*  
From: Francois Labreque
Date: 8 Feb 2001 08:46:54
Message: <3A82A276.713EEA2E@videotron.ca>
Marc-Hendrik Bremer wrote:
> 
> Rick [Kitty5] schrieb in Nachricht <3a8289e8@news.povray.org>...
> >if you still have dx7 installed I would recommend you stick with that for
> >now - upgrade only when all your drivers support dx8 (if they need to) and
> >even then wait till you buy a game that refuses to run without :)
> 
> I've heard about some nasty memory leaks in dx8. They fixed it in dx8a.
> Before the system won't run more then a few hours without rebooting - OTOH
> Windows has to be rebooted every few hours anyway ;-)

No, it doesn't!  I must reboot my home PC maybe twice a month, and that
usually because Netscape crashed and left bits and pieces all over the
place.

I have found that using vendor-provided drivers was a lot better than
generic nVidia ones.

-- 
Francois Labreque | The surest sign of the existence of extra-
    flabreque     | terrestrial intelligence is that they never
        @         | bothered to come down here and visit us!
  videotron.ca                                  - Calvin


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