[lug] Good tests of nVidia card?

[Jason Davis]

On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 12:25 -0700, Matt Thompson 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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Make sure you are using the Nvidia drivers. GLX gears an test a little.
I usually use UT2003 for testing :\ 

jd