[lug] Good tests of nVidia card?

[Michael Hirsch]

TuxRacer is a nice tool for testing 3D graphics. Seems to have been renamed
to something like ppracer on the latest Mandriva.

Michael

On 10/31/05, Matt Thompson <thompsma at jilau1.colorado.edu> wrote:
>
> I recently got an upgrade of my work box and have been spending time
> doing all the usual fun things when that happens. Recompiling programs,
> migrating home-items, etc.
>
> But, with this new box I go from an 8 MB Rage64 video card to a 256 MB
> nVidia 6800. Thus, I don't really have much that I can use to test out
> the new card. I have some OpenGL apps that I use in the chemistry work,
> but the molecules I work with aren't too taxing for the program it
> seems.
>
> So, I was hoping the list could give me some ideas on how to test out
> the all the new power I should have. I know of things like America's
> Army, but downloading 800 MB of game for a work box isn't the best use
> of time. Are there any smaller, video-intensive games I could grab to
> test the limits of the card? You know, all those cool anti-aliasing,
> shadows, mip-map type things I always read about at Anandtech, but never
> had the hardware to try?
>
> Matt
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