nVidia and Starcraft

[Ian Schmidt]

In article <20010320141954.08865.00000039 at ng-bk1.aol.com>,
Daniel Foesch <krach42 at aol.com> wrote:
>Ok... here's my big problem with the nVidia drivers.  Ever since I upgraded to
>0.9-6  DGA mode with Starcraft has been broken!, and now with the 0.9-767
>drivers Starcraft has refused to work AT ALL.  If I replace the drivers back to
>the 0.9-5 (which are dreadfully unstable with SMP) Starcraft works fine.  Any
>resolution, any color depth.  With 0.9-6 I have to run Starcraft at 8-bit
>depth, else I get strange mirroring effects, showing that it's only writing
>8-bit information on a 32-bit screen.  With 0.9-767... well, that just crashes
>flat on its face.

Complain to nvidia - they have an email address for bugs.

The 0.9-7 series are very broken for me - X will never start the first try 
(the server segfaults), and will randomly freeze the whole system 
afterwards.  I downgraded to 0.9-6 (which does work for me, but I don't 
play Starcraft :)

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