Blaze 2.0

[Bill Baxter]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Jarrett Billingsley
<jarrett.billingsley at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Bill Baxter <wbaxter at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Jarrett Billingsley
>> <jarrett.billingsley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Bill Baxter <wbaxter at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The video card you have, and which drivers you are using for it, might
>>>> be more relevant factors than the speed of your CPU.
>>>
>>> GeForce 8600 512MB, version 181.22 of the official drivers.
>>>
>>
>> Sounds like that should be capable.  If you're motivated enough you
>> could try installing the 182.08 drivers to see if that fixes it.
>
> Ah, that fixed it!  Good idea, I didn't consider it since I only just
> updated my drivers a couple weeks ago.  Figures.

I wasted a few hours last week trying to debug a mysterious
performance problem.  Finally I installed some new drivers out of
frustration, and suddenly the performance problem was gone.   So the
experience was fresh on my mind.

--bb